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Published on Friday, May 02, 2008
By Mariel Garza
I'M not one to sneer at the pages of sex ads in alternative publications like the LA Weekly, possibly because the hopeful and oddly sweet faces of the hookers in the seedy ads get my true sympathies.
Those women (a few men, too) are just trying to make a buck in a cold, hard city that sells sex any way people will buy it. And it seems marginally safer to ply your trade through the want ads than working the mean streets of Sunset or Sepulveda.
Indeed, both my feminist predisposition and my libertarian sympathies agree that, while unpleasant, there's nothing inherently wrong with trading intimate touch for money. Every time I get a pedicure I'm paying someone to service my body in a way that's both pleasurable and somewhat decadent. Moreover, women and men have been making deals since the beginning of time in which they essentially exchanged sex and intimacy for security, wealth, protection, admiration or improvement of social standing
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