Deconstructing Monogamy
Monogamy is local, fairly recent, certainly unsustainable long term, which cultural function is to exert control over the untamed sex organs (men's and women's). Often, the unquestioned relationships and beliefs are the real authorities of a culture. Our own culture - patriarchal, ruled by indignation and honourable models, one built on theological studies and instruction manuals for confessors, and steadfastly monogamous, where women are glorified and yet, still today, given little opportunities to exercise the privileges of such glorification - the prostitute has been living on the fringe, like an instrumental necessity - but so ever "unwashed" and "baseborn" - to keep the "system" working smoothly. For the longest time, the whorehouse was the threatre for cultural rejects, where the unproductive sperm would go to waste. The inner voices of the culture would say: "we know, just keep it outside the family house". Nowadays, in our little community, the shameful ejaculations leave their residues in paper tissues at the Chablis.
We've questionned, analyzed, stigmatized, providers and their clients, especially their married clients. For the exercise, let's reverse the questions: what justification does our monogamous culture can provide us with nowadays for depriving us, men and women, of our sexuality? Culturally speaking, what makes it still shameful and complicated for two individuals (straight or gay) to love each other and freely fuck outside the confines of their relationship? Explain the stigma when, in other cultures and in other times, prostitution was an exercise of self-determination and glorified as such? How about we reverse all the questions and put all the oppressing forces on the spot?
