There was a time when I could have been considered a lurker but now I want to give back and share what is current, what has past, and what I hope will be. I know I'm stating the obvious here, but me and the world have changed a lot from 10 years ago when I was 16. Back then, interest in the internet was gaining a critical mass and I was so afraid of it all. Bill Clinton almost got impeached for something almost every American does or wishes they were doing. Now it's hard to imagine life without this random chaotic web of facts, figures, and fantasies.
Speaking of facts, figures, and fantasies...why are so many American troops serving time in Iraq almost five years after the "mission accomplished" speech by Mr. Bush. All you service men and women are in my prayers and I want y'all back home real soon. It's tough when you feel so apathetic, as I often do about the situation. I imagine it's tougher when war so directly touches your life like it does for the soldiers, Afghani, Iraqi, and possibly Iranian people. Has the fact that our civilization become too technologically advanced contributed to our forgetfulness about how to sit down and talk things out? What responsibility, if any, do escorts play in reminding these influencers and decision makers what it means to be human?
Why is professional companionship indirectly referred to as the oldest profession and which came first, the courtesan or the king? Who knows? It seems that there is a mystery that lies beyond the stigma associated with prostitution. Maybe we have a social responsibility to dive into it. Here's a brief analysis of how the perception of historical, literary, and mythical whores has had on how we think, what we do, and where we're going.
The first archetype that might have had the most impact on society as we know it today is the "Great whore of Babylon" mentioned in the the New Testament of the Bible in the book of Revelations between chapters 17 and 18. This "Great whore" was depicted as being "drunken with the blood of saints". "Many Bible scholars agree that Babylon in the whore's title is meant as an allegory of Rome" according to Wikipedia. The same article states a few lines later that, "However, it must be noted that in Matthew 23:35 and Luke 11:50-51, Jesus himself assigned all of the bloodguilt for the killing of the prophets and of the saints (of all time) to the Pharisees of Jerusalem."
There seems to be a discrepency between what Jesus was quoted as saying and what his disciple John is credited with writing about in the last book of the Christian bible. While Revelation's author casts a judgement on all whores, symbolic and literal, in general regardless of their intentions and impact, it might not be a stretch to consider how this might have set a precedent for the subjugation of sex workers and all women for a long long time.
Speaking of facts, figures, and fantasies...why are so many American troops serving time in Iraq almost five years after the "mission accomplished" speech by Mr. Bush. All you service men and women are in my prayers and I want y'all back home real soon. It's tough when you feel so apathetic, as I often do about the situation. I imagine it's tougher when war so directly touches your life like it does for the soldiers, Afghani, Iraqi, and possibly Iranian people. Has the fact that our civilization become too technologically advanced contributed to our forgetfulness about how to sit down and talk things out? What responsibility, if any, do escorts play in reminding these influencers and decision makers what it means to be human?
Why is professional companionship indirectly referred to as the oldest profession and which came first, the courtesan or the king? Who knows? It seems that there is a mystery that lies beyond the stigma associated with prostitution. Maybe we have a social responsibility to dive into it. Here's a brief analysis of how the perception of historical, literary, and mythical whores has had on how we think, what we do, and where we're going.
The first archetype that might have had the most impact on society as we know it today is the "Great whore of Babylon" mentioned in the the New Testament of the Bible in the book of Revelations between chapters 17 and 18. This "Great whore" was depicted as being "drunken with the blood of saints". "Many Bible scholars agree that Babylon in the whore's title is meant as an allegory of Rome" according to Wikipedia. The same article states a few lines later that, "However, it must be noted that in Matthew 23:35 and Luke 11:50-51, Jesus himself assigned all of the bloodguilt for the killing of the prophets and of the saints (of all time) to the Pharisees of Jerusalem."
There seems to be a discrepency between what Jesus was quoted as saying and what his disciple John is credited with writing about in the last book of the Christian bible. While Revelation's author casts a judgement on all whores, symbolic and literal, in general regardless of their intentions and impact, it might not be a stretch to consider how this might have set a precedent for the subjugation of sex workers and all women for a long long time.
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