This guest article from YourTango was written by Teresa Maples.
A recent study published by Christine Milrod and co-author Ronald Weitzer analyzes 2,442 postings written by people who pay for sex on an online discussion board that reviews sex providers and their services. Approximately one-third of the posts discussed emotional intimacy between sex workers and their clients.
Many of the people who paid for sex expressed a desire to grow their relationships beyond the sex act and develop feelings and mutual love with the person. So what kinds of things do people who pay for sex tell themselves?
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This is silly. One would pay for a massage or body work with no difficulty. One might even pay for an erotic massage. But if there’s an orgasm involved, it becomes an immoral thing? And you are suggesting with the links you provide that the person paying needs professional help and/or is a sex addict? Are you kidding??
Don’t worry about it Mariah,Do you know what “Your Tango” is? It’s a website that regularly contacts therapists and asks them to become “experts” on their site. I’ve been contacted by them myself and they are extremely unprofessional. It’s all a scam to publicize your own website (as this Teresa Maples did) by writing some dumb article that has no scientific relevance whatsoever. Maples has been brainwashed by “sex addiction” proponents. I bet you she hasn’t even read the original article, published in Men and Masculinities, a highly respected social science journal. Her typos, diction, syntax and statements are rather infantile, not to mention her ideology. True compulsive sexual behavior affects a small minority of the population. It’s too bad that “Your Tango” has to solicit fake experts, all to make a buck from advertisers. Then again, it’s all about the lowest common denominator, isn’t it? “Sex addiction” doesn’t even exist in the upcoming DSM V – it’s the newest form of “social ill,” designed to make some therapists very wealthy, and some clients very confused.
its not everyone who likes doing what he/she is doing.its not everyone who has full control over they lives.some want to do it for the fun of it and some what to stop and move on with they lives.The big question is why are they two kinds of this people?.that the question you need to ask yourself Social Scientist
This article tortures logic more mercilessly than Mistress Ayeesha tortured me last night! None of your arguments are convincing and a few of the points are actually contradicted by their own “supporting” evidence.
It’s more like 5 lies that people, who are immoralising and demonising pay-sex, are making up.