The subject-line should read: Women *too* buying sex in Goa too! I'm not so sure thought that "buying" sex necessarily means enjoying it. To me, this is another means of the capitalist society's more-is-better sales pitch; and we know it isn't necessarily true. But it keeps both men and women in their proper position (so to speak) , while those in control of our unfair societies are laughing all the way to the bank.
Such thinking even counters the basic economic 'law of diminishing utility'. (Put simplistically, as every student who encountered it in the eleventh standard Economics class of Ms Ferdi at Xaviers would know: if I eat one apple, I get X units of pleasure. If I eat two apples maybe I get 2X units of pleasure. By the time I'm into my third apple, the additional utility from each apple starts declining. By the time I'm into my 20th apple in the same session, I'm getting positive displeasure -- or pain -- from each additional apple eaten.... Which makes me wonder, doesn't the apple analogy suggest that economics, as we study it today, was thought of in some cold, WASPish country where this fruit is grown?) Men have been "buying" sex for generations mainly because of their political power, and the fact that it's so disgustingly cheap! When doing some work in the Baina red-light area, I was shocked to realise that a woman could be dehumanised at the price of an inexpensive rice-plate! This is not justifiable, but if the price was a bit more fair, at least the whole equation would be so, so badly skewed. The fact that the bulk of these women were Dalits (from the more deprived segments of the Indian cl-aste hierarchy, also helped to make them so prone to this hazardous and tiresome work.) Linux Torvalds, the Finnish geek who wrote to Linux kernel that became a critical part of the Free Software/Open Source movements, once had this quote. He said, "Software is like sex. It's best when it is free." Of course, this was meant to make you think of the inequities of proprietorial software, where the richest man in the world, who is supporting so many philanthrophic activities we are now told, prices software so atrociously high that virtually 90% of the planet is reduced to being "pirates". [BTW, do you use software which doesn't violate copyright and EULA rules, do you pay atrociously high prices for your software, or do you use Free-as-in-freedom Software?] But, on the other hand, the issue of "free" sex has also come a generation away from where it started in the 'sixties. Do ideas like this *really* benefit women? Or is it just a sophisticated justification for giving men what they want anyway? The question really is whether women (all all others lower-down in the pecking order) can get sex on terms which are not detrimental to them. Of course, this is not for me to discuss, but for every individual to decide on herself (or himself). FN PS: In addition to all that is said above, it's not simply a matter of gender alone. There's also the question of which *class* of women you're referring to. Can migrant women from Karnataka also be "buying sex in Goa too"? Or is it a case like the real estate sector, where Goa is seen a huge building boom, but anyone with even a middle-class job here can scarcely afford to buy a home of his/her own? PPS: BTW, just wondering where did Elisabeth descend from? A politician who reads Goanet in Goa was actually surprise enough to comment to me privately about her posts! As for me, I think she's Goanet's secret weapon to get us all into thinking mode, and we are forced to use our otherwise dormant grey cells instead of just our male aggression and a mix of insulting and meaningless name-calling. On 10/07/06, Elisabeth Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm so glad women are finally enjoying sex as freely > and casually as men. It is only the human species that > places constraints on sex under the guise of morality. > How strange. Cornel, if you're reading this, it was > Rousseau who said, "man is born free but everywhere he > is in chain". I looked it up just for you. Wikipedia > will do it everytime ;) -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Frederick 'FN' Noronha | Yahoomessenger: fredericknoronha http://fn.goa-india.org | +91(832)2409490 Cell 9822122436 ---------------------------------------------------------- 2248 copylefted photos from Goa: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/ _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
