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for which there are no buyers. The first step in understanding
the sex industry is to understand the customers, the johns.
Real sexual relationships are not hard to find. There
are plenty of adults of both sexes who are willing to
have sex if someone treats them well, and asks. But there
lies the problem. Some people do not want an equal, sharing
relationship. They do not want to be nice. They do not
want to ask. They like the power involved in buying a
human being who can be made to do almost anything.
Some people do not want real relationships, or feel entitled
to something beyond the real relationships they have.
They want to play "super stud and sex slave"
or whatever, inside their own heads. If they need to support
their fantasies with pictures, video tapes, or real people
to abuse, the sex trade is ready to supply them. For a
price, they can be "a legend in their own minds."
The most common type of prostitution customer is the
user. He is quite self-centered, and simply wants what
he considers to be his needs met.
The user would deny any intent to harm anyone, and might
even claim some empathy for the sex workers he uses. However,
his empathy does not extend to discontinuing his using
behavior, nor to helping anyone escape from the sex industry.
He does not care whether the person he is using is unwilling
or unusually vulnerable. He simply feels entitled to whatever
he wants, whenever he wants it. If someone is hurt, that
is not his problem.
He sees himself as a respectable person, and works to
protect that appearance. Users provide a large, safe,
and steady income for the pimps and other "businessmen,"
of the sex industry.
Sadists are people who have the ability to take pleasure
in another person's fear, pain, or humiliation. They constitute
about ten percent of the population. Sadists vary in severity,
ranging from those who just make you feel bad, on up to
those who do torture murders. There is a definite practice
effect. If allowed to hurt people often, their sadism
gets worse.
Physical, sexual, and emotional abuse by sadists drives
their child victims into the street, trying to escape.
The pimps and "chickenhawks" take it from there.
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