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I must be more conservative than I think, because I have never lost touch with my intuition. And sometimes my intuition tells me that something is so wrong that I start thinking I am prejudiced.

I never believed that prostitution wasn't corrupting and damaging to female prostitutes. However, that doesn't mean that I believe that adults shouldn't be able to practice it if they want to. Undoubtedly, the women who go into it are damaged and desperate, but it is still their right.

What I find interesting, however, is that male prostitutes don't always feel exploited. In fact, many of them enjoy their work. This relates to the differences between men and women. Perhaps I'm wrong, but it has always struck me about women that they are protective of their bodies where sex is concerned, probably because they face the risk of becoming pregnant. It also seems to me that women have a mothering instinct that (for most of them) doesn't allow them to be as promiscuous as men are. I'm gay, and I have been with male prostitutes (hustlers) on just three occasions, and I can tell you that the hustler was in control of our interactions much more than I was.

So I'm a firm believer in sexual freedom, but I don't believe that everything that people do with that freedom is a positive thing.

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