There’s a new hustler in Nevada: the male prostitute. Thanks to a recent change in language regarding the health regulation of prostitution, men can now suit up, get their urethra’s screened for infectious diseases, and walk the streets tricking and treating. You’d think the inclusion of men within the sex trade would be a welcome change, but almost on cue, someone raises the concern that (gasp!) male prostitutes may end up having sex with men. Which is totally f-ed up. I mean gay people do catch a lot of flack, but to bar them from purchasing sex in a state that permits prostitution is a complete injustice. It also reeks of blatant sexism, such that apparently women can only be objectified as a purchased sex item.
So big is the reaction to the advent of the male hustler, that George Flint, minister turned brothel lobbyist, has called the inclusion of men in prostitution the "Pearl Harbor" of the brothel industry. He claims that the backlash of allowing men to purchase sex from men would undo all his hard work of making prostitution tasteful to both libertarians and conservatives. The dude needs to put in more work in my opinion. Tasteful would be about the last word I would use to describe the purchase of an orfice.
But to a certain extent, he does have a point. More than race and gender, the topic of sexual orientation always takes top billing when it comes to controversy. The president is biracial and the Williams sisters own sports teams, issues of race and gender no longer affect us. But talk about a penis even in close proximity to an anus and people start jumping out windows. Still, haters gotta hate I guess.
Yup, that's an ugly picture...