that pop into my spinning head... I am doing my all not to come from a conformist and dogmatic morality (as I am sure that will be covered), and I am not going to advocate for free love, but I have a friend named Holly Hill who wrote a book called 'Sugar Daddy' and another called "toyboy' she advocates that partners should have negotiations about the issues that are on your plate, ideally before commitment starts and that this can address the 'terrible divorce rate', family breakdown/dysfunction etc and address repression through unfulfilled sex lives etc. (She is an Aussie, from my high school and has had a hell of a time, done some serious research, and had some very interesting adventures.) I guess your argument is a good rationale for the sex industry in a sense, but the money and choice issue can indeed arise...in the old days of western civilization prostitution was not a paid service but part of the ritual and culture of paying respect to the needs of nature within...and made sacred...the women who worked in them were priestesses' and chosen in some cultures some were orphans (high status), and it is said that they had some gift of healing in matters of the heart and flesh- but this is only speculation as far as I can tell. The mysteries of Eleusis parallelled these and were set into Roman times as witnessed on the walls and in extant books. I look on the whole thing with