Friday, October 13, 2006

Prostitution???

In Canada, prostitution is seen as an ugly thing. I don't think I know a single person who would ever admit to using a prostitute. Among "manly" men, paying for sex is also seen as a statement of failure as a man to attract a woman - any woman.

I can't imagine the derision that would be heaped on a Canadian man who admitted to paying for sex with a doll.

Certainly men have bought and used inflatable dolls since rubber was first discovered. However, this was always done in the privacy of one's home, and the "package" was always wrapped in brown paper (or so I've been told) when it was delivered.

(Wikipedia: Sex doll - "They were first developed in their modern form by Japan and Germany during the late 1930s and early 1940s - in Germany as part of the military 'Model Borghild' project, and in Japan for use on submarines. In both instances, the aim was to give sexual relief to men confined in an all-male environment." - But there's a big difference between an all male military setting and a large city in Korea.)

This article in the Chosun Ilbo just gives me the creeps (and I don't even really care if the the law protects the dolls).

Do the Anti-Prostitution Laws Protect Sex Dolls?

A “doll experience room” is a place punters rent for some W25,000 (US$1=W958) an hour, a fee that includes a bed, a computer, and an inflatable sex doll

(I'm not even sure why you need a computer. Would you broadcast it with a webcam?)
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After the Special Law on Prostitution went into effect in 2004, the press reported that certain motels were providing the dolls to customers to bridge the gap, but this is the first time establishments dedicated to the experience have sprung up in the city. Ads looking for others who are interested in running their own sex doll rooms are springing up on the Internet, a development that leads police to suspect that more such establishments exists across the country.

Forget the brown paper wrapper. Do these "johns" wear a brown paper bag over their heads?

And then, of course, there is the big question: Would a wife be just as jealous of her husband for fooling around with an inflatable doll than with a real hooker? It really would add new meaning to that tired old expression that unfaithful husbands have used since, well, the beginning of time, "Really, honey, she meant nothing to me."

There are other questions, of course.
Would you need to rent the room for a full hour?
Would you expect to have foreplay?
Would you want to talk after?
And, what would happen if you, um, fell in love with "Barbie." Would you be jealous if she were"seeing" other Johns?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Then you clearly never saw this.

Anonymous said...

Not to be picky...but is sex with a prostitute really that unmanly in Canada? I've met many a traveller from everywhere under the sun(or so it seems) who has confessed or even boasted about having shared a moment or two with ladies of the night. Isn't it a bit like doing drugs...? gotta try it once...just for the experience. Some world-weary folks probably prefer whores to avoid the baggage of waking up next to a woman they don't love. Is there something authentic there...manly even;-)?

The Wanderer said...

We must run in different circles. I don't know anyone who would admit it, let alone boast.

Perhaps I have a lot of baggage, but paying someone to have sex with me when they probably wouldn't want to date me under normal circumstances is a problem. I think that, while some prostitutes may enjoy their job, I doubt that the majority do.