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another take on why the john can't complain is that making the cost of entry and potential downside of visiting a prostitute high enough isn't some religious-right bullshit, but rather a really, really smart idea developed over thousands of years.

highly-populated urban areas have more pathogens than rural ones and higher immunity, pathogens change faster than immunity does on animals like us with long-gestation times and you're now looking at a large number of nasty stuff that can get nastier fast. we can't do shit about viral infection, same as 2000 years ago. manhattan goes down if a filovirus hits it. that's an extreme example, but the fact is that too much sex kills-sorry all you sex-positive swinger-types, annie sprinkle/nina hartley and their apologists. look at the percentage of people with some kind of STD--it's fucking staggering. AIDS has cut the populationj of many african countries down to the point where the average lifespan is under 40 years. imagine if something like genital warts or herpes mutated to become more serious. there's nothing evil about fucking a hooker, i'm not that interested in it, but it makes a shitload of sense to make it more of a decision than whether you want to have chinese food for dinner.



Whilst I generally agree with the thrust of your argument, I think you omitted an important distinction: It's not too much sex that kills, it's too many sexual partners. That's why someone like me chooses monogamy and uses porn as a vicarious outlet for his more polyamorous desires.
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