Damn, sad, especially around the holidays.
Not funny in any way and sad in so many.
Commentary about how isolated men are?
Or commentary that men have become so ineffectual that they cannot create a single meaningful relationship that evolves to the hug level?
Some things can be blamed on the economy — not this. This is a matter of making first things first and not blaming others for our own short comings.
I think it’s a comment about this artists need for affection more then a commentary about men in general.
Is this a commentary on the current psychological state of men or the economy?
both? both.
I’m friends with sex workers who give comfort just like this. Some of them don’t even have sex on their menus, just physical touch, companionship, and listening. They say it’s exhausting, perhaps even moreso than sex, but the pay is good. There’s boundary issues to watch out for.
sex workers
don’t even have sex on their menus
🤔
It’s really not that surprising and I’d wager that non-intercourse sex work is vastly more common than the other
Wait till you find out about Cam girls
really? what do you think i will discover when i find out?
Just sashaying up to the counter, “a number nine combo and a medium sex.”
Unironical, it kind of works like that. There are usual combos, and straying off from them costs extra.
I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
Wanna round up for the tatas for tots foundation?
“Did you want fries with that?”
“Sorry, we’re all out of sex. How about a hotly contested disagreement followed by rapprochement and eventually a blossoming mutual respect and admiration over the course of several months?”
Does it come with a side of friendship?
Probably 🤷
What kind of dipping sauce?
Wait there are 12 days of Christmas, you switched back way too soon you heathen!
You don’t want to know…
Doesn’t sound too bad
How much for a “hug n tug”?
That sounds like therapy with touching and without the responsibility. Probably not a bad job.
Yeah but without the years of training on how to manage and help people’s emotional problems.
and the years of training on compartmentalizing work and personal life.
True. Not a job for me anyway, people are just… ugh.
*to work with
A huge amount of sex workers’ actual jobs is giving just that level of intimacy and comfort.
Which sounds nice but it’s really a false intimacy unless you actually go on to develop a long term relationship with that sex worker.
I think one of the biggest contributors to our growing societal sense of alienation is all the surrogates we use for genuine adaptive functions. Everything from fast food to hardcore drugs has been optimized to mimic what are supposed to be honest signals in our brains that guide us toward making good choices in the long run. Intimacy (and feel-good hormones) are supposed to help us survive in the long term by building relationships and strengthening bonds that protect us against all the random risks of life. Building a sense of intimacy with a stranger that you never see again is ultimately going to lead to greater pain and a sense of loss down the road.
Why can’t Conservatism be this instead of lynching brown people and absolving child rapists QQ
Because societies with that level of intimacy have been eradicted years ago. The US in particular has been built by people who had uprooted themselves from the last remains of any such society.
Nah false intimacy is coming home to your girlfriend sleeping with your neighbor/best friend then she asks you for tree-fiddy so you look and you realize your girlfriend is about 500 feet tall and from the paleolithic era.
I AIN’T GIVING YOU NO TREE FIDDY YOU GODDAMN LOCH NESS MONSTER
hawt
Why bother connecting with a stranger, it’ll only end in sadness and pain
babe, go outside, call your parents or whatever. Life is built on these tiny meaningless interactions.
ps, you will not developda relationship with a sexworker, don’t approach things this way, would you build a fantasy life with a waiter or bar tender?
Any actual data on that?
Lol
