Help! My Nanny Is A Prostitute!

In prostitution, men dehumanise women and women dehumanise themselves in order to be able to perform the acts men require of them. This does not mean that women are made less than human; it means that they are treated as such and operate in an environment in which they must not only accept such treatment from others, but actively seek it and learn to deliver it to themselves.

And yes, there is loss here: And what is the loss of anything if not the loss of connectedness to it? In that sense, I lost my humanity.

I lost my humanity in that I lost touch with it. While I never quite forgot about it, I pretended, because I was paid to pretend, that it was of no consequence. There are areas of life where it is necessary to buy into certain untruths. Sadly, and in a sense paradoxically, one of the biggest losses to prostituted women as a group is derived from the fact that they are a group. It is in the fact that they must acknowledge and accept that they are collectively removed from the rest of society, and behave as such, and comfort each other in the knowing of it.

For my own sake, I believe I was lucky to have the company of other prostituted women. Yes, certainly we would have been worse off had we been removed from society individually, but, in a physical sense at least, we were not, and our coming together as a group was a natural convergence. There were positives and negatives in this, and of the negatives, the principal ones were defined by loss. We shared a collective lack of social standing and a dearth of respect from the world.

We understood this, intensely, painfully. This was particularly obvious to me during my street-walking years.

To be excluded as part of a group may not sound as horrendous as being excluded as an individual, and if those two methods of exclusion worked independently of each other it would be true that it is not, but the truth for all those who are excluded as part of a group is that they are excluded as individuals also.

They are debarred and expelled on both counts. This is not only true of prostitutes; it is true of the members of all socially excluded groups.

Prostitution clearly promotes the depersonalisation of sex, which can never be good news for women — any women. Prostitution has a ripple effect. It creates the illusory view in the minds of men that women are not human beings as men are, but simply the walking carrier of a product, and that they serve one principal function, whether or not they are paid for it, which is to be used as vessels for the sexual release of men.

They are effortlessly and imperceptibly relegated from the realms of the human. They are not people on a par with their male counterparts. When women tolerate prostitution they are actually tolerating the dehumanisation of their own gender in a broader and more encompassing sense.

Countries with male-majority governments are implementing the legalisation of prostitution with frightening rapidity throughout the western world. Where is the female revolt towards all this? There is no widespread female revolt because female sexuality has so long been viewed as a commodity that woman have begun to believe in the necessity of a separate class of women to provide it.

The acceptance of prostitution makes all women potential prostitutes in the public view since there are only two requirements for a woman to work in a brothel: If a woman accepts prostitution in society, then she accepts this personal indenture, whether she knows it or not; and yes, that is a loss.

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Could the nanny turn your son into a womanizer?

Intervening in prostitution is not acting the nanny Advocating the selling of sex is not just a bad idea, writes Lisa McInerney, but also a very blinkered one. See more articles by Lisa McInerney. Contribute to this story: The trial will likely include details of Mel and her ex-husband Stephen Belafonte's sex life including how they enjoyed threesome sex with German-born Gilles. The nanny always refuted the allegation. Despite the pair signing a non-disclosure agreement, Gilles is now free to take the stand and talk openly about Mel. It is not known when the expected seven-day trial will take place, although it is likely to happen early next year.

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