The most important characteristic of the sex
exchange between men and women is its inherent
inequality. Here is where biological laws and social
laws interact and re-inforce each other in the hidden
matriarchy. The woman has--and has always
had--everything to gain and nothing to lose--although
there is often a pretense of loss, even of sacrifice.
The things of this world exchanged by the man
for sex leave the man and accumulate with the woman.
What does the woman lose in the exchange? The woman's
pussy is no less than it was before. It can be traded
over and over again for a wide variety of
tangibles. Hence the expression 'getting some.' A man can
never get it all--or even most of it-- because, at the
end of the exchange, the women still has all of
it--ready for another exchange--and always will.
Prostitution is the most conscious acting out of this
reality, this inherent inequality. Which is why
prostitution must be prohibited or at least kept under
wraps. It speaks too loudly of the underlying reality
that is likely to have been heard all too clearly by
men who murder prostitutes. It is only symbolically diminished by the
exchange, as in 'loss of virginity.' Language is one of the things of this world
created by men to get sex. Since women use sex to get the things of this
world, what can they be getting from the existence of
words? Whatever language makes possible. Promises, for
one thing. Contracts. Deals about the future. What else is marriage except a promise, a
contract, a deal about the future pledging long-term
access to the things of this world accumulated by the
man? A woman trades a tangible (sex) for other
tangibles: male-created things of this world. What she
has to trade is intrinsically and inescapably hers. It
can be exchanged for other things without losing it.
What he has to trade could be anyone's at any
time. He must lose it to gain something that is
momentarily real but ultimately ephemiral. Through (pre) history, this gradually evolves
into the sophistication of trading that which is less
and less tangible, for intangibles. As Popeye's friend
Wimply would say: "I will gladly pay you tomorrow for
a hamburger today."
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