Prostitution Fact 2

America’s sex taboo comes down hardest on males that lack the looks, power, or wealth, to attract sexual partners. The pain of this group can perhaps best be described by someone who was a woman and then became a man. Here a transsexual describes life after the first testosterone shots began the transition:

The ramifications of sexual repression may extend far beyond rapists and sexual deviants. A cross-cultural analysis of 400 pre-industrial societies found that those that had negative attitudes towards extramarital sex were more likely to have a high incidence of theft, have slavery, and be extremely warlike. They were also more likely to kill, torture, and mutilate their enemies.

This correlation between sexual repression and violence was found to exist with nineteen year old American college students as well. Students approving of violence were more likely to agree that prostitution should be punished, responsible premarital sex was disagreeable, and that society should interfere with private sexual behavior between adults.

America’s sex taboo comes down hardest on females that have high testosterone levels and those that are willing to have sex for money. High testosterone females who enjoy casual sex are branded as “sluts” and are more likely to suffer from the ignorance imposed by the religious right and our federal government.

The most obvious pain of the second group is incarceration. The women the law allegedly seeks to protect face the possibility of incarceration and, perhaps worse, the permanent branding of a criminal record. Women who may have been able to move on to more accepted forms of employment are now constrained to prostitution because of employers’ misgivings. In addition, because prostitutes are afraid to go to the police they are susceptible to horrific violence and murder by their customers. Lastly, the victimless nature of the “crime” of prostitution invites corruption, and the abuse of prostitutes, by police officers.

Testosterone levels help illuminate sexual politics. People with low testosterone levels are more likely to believe that criminal regulation will put an end to extramarital sex because they have a lower, and more controllable, libido themselves.

This is particularly apparent in regards to age. Older people are led to believe that they control their behavior better because they are wiser, and wisdom can be taught to youth. However, this is a hypocritical stance regarding sex because they now have a lower sex drive, and a lower sex drive cannot be taught to youth.

	Pro-Criminalization of Sexuality (low T)	Anti-Criminalization of Sexuality (high T)
Women	Most Women	High T Women
Men	Low T Men	Most Men
Age	senior citizens	teens, young adults
Professions	academics, farmers, ministers, white-collar workers	actors, athletes, field soldiers, blue-collar workers