Fisto said:
Sargon - You don't get it. That's cool.
I really could say the exact same thing about you.
AA - Does the sandbag treat you like a chump for paying for sex? Does the sandbag act like it's enjoying you carrying it so you'll get done sooner?
Who cares? The people who pay for sex obviously don't.
Sargon wants to talk about shame. Whatever, I won't go that far as to say "you should feel ashamed". I don't think that. I think that if you are working on yourself, working on getting better, and then you have to resort to paying for sex (again, there are no other representative examples of this dynamic) You are backsliding.
After this kind of comment you try to tell me I'm the one who doesn't get it? There are plenty of representatives of this dynamic, you're just shoehorning some made-up idealistic notions into it. I understand what you mean about the woman wanting it. That's why I'm not into prostitutes, I can't enjoy sex with a woman without a sense of mutual lust.
However, what you don't seem to understand is that this feeling is neither objective nor universal. The fact that I'm not into P4P has more to do with the fact that it doesn't meet my own personal needs, but I'm not going to apply my own personal needs to others.
Guys like sargon like to act like they are robots on the internet the same way women like to pretend they can think rationally when asked what kind of guy they want. In both cases reality is different from theory. Go out at night and at the after striking out, go get a hooker and tell me nothings hurt.
I tried it once several years ago. Not because I couldn't get it any other way, but because of oportunity and curiosity (e.g. would it be different that with a normal girl?, etc.). Didn't enjoy it; don't plan on doing it again, but did I feel "a part of myself die on the inside"? Did I feel pain from some irrevocable emptiness in the place that used to be my soul or some similar nonsense? Of course not. Tried it once, wasn't for me, moved on.
If somebody else likes that, however, it's not my concern to judge them.
I'll grant you that a guy who is paying for sex for no other reason that he can't get laid the other way, and additionally deludes himself into thinking the whores he's paying WANT it...is indeed a loser.
However, if he's doing it just because he wants to have fun and indulge in physical pleasure, doesn't care about game, and he fully understands the purely transactional nature of it, then I really don't care either way what he's doing. Is he someone I'd look up to? No. Is what he's doing equally satisfying as what I'm doing? Probably not. But am I going to judge him for it? Hell no.
If we are holding ourselves to a higher standard, I see this as being a higher standard.
Again, these are your subjective, made up standards that you're applying to other people who apparantly don't care about them.
Maybe that's a thought experiment some of you can do; Imagine walking down the street and you see a hooker that's in love with you and she's with some guy who acts like he's the shit for having a sexy girl. She glances over at you and rolls her eyes and you share this little smile because you know she's taking him for everything she can while she fucked you for free and maybe even paid for your cab home.
Again, these are pointless hypothetical scenarios. I'd only call that guy a loser if he really believes she's into him (for something other than his money). If he knows it's bullshit but doesn't care, why should you or I?