melissa:
laphamsquarterly:
The July issue of Newsweek, 2011...
The July issue of Newsweek, 2011 and the July issue of Cosmopolitan, 1955.
"Why Men Buy Sex" (2011) / "Why Men Pay For Love" (1955)
Never change, magazine headlines. Never change.
(I'm trying to get into what I have to say about the Newsweek story but I'm a little exhausted. Seriously, I get secondary trauma waves from reading Melissa Farley, not from having fucked for money.)
I second MGG's feelings of trauma around reading the Newsweek piece. I made it through the first two pages, will have to come back later. In the meantime, you should read Emi Koyana's analysis. Here's a choice snippet:
8a) The article cites the 2004 study inAmerican Journal of Epidemiologyby Potterat et al. to indicate that "Prostitution has laways been risky for women; the average age of death is 34." But this is misleading, because it does not mean that the average life expectancy for prostitutes is 34 or that the average prostitute dies at age 34. Potterat et al. are simply reporting that among the active prostitutes who died in the studied period, the average age at which they died was 34. If that is not clear, consider this analogy: average age at death for those who die while enrolling in college is probably somewhere near 20, but nobody would claim that the average college student dies at 20.
