Heidi Fleiss, former, um, Madam to the stars, is opening a male brothel.
Honestly, I don’t know quite what to say about this.
On the one hand, clearly I would have nothing but positive things to say about things that promote equality between men and women. If men are able to pay women for sex, then it stands to reason that women should be able to pay men for sex as well. If men are going to be slaves to libido, and pay exhorbitent fees for the right to engage in risky behavior, then screw it, women should be too. And if men are going to think it’s acceptable to pay for something that “with a little effort, they can get for free,” well, women should too. So in that regard, I’m 100% on board with Ms. Fleiss’s idea.
On the other hand, I can’t get over the fact that I have no idea how this will work in a practical sense. Ms. Fleiss apparently wants 20 dudes, and while I have no doubt that she will receive enough applications to more than fill that quota, I’m a little skeptical here. Men can’t just fake orgasms the way women can… and I feel like you can’t just expect these guys to have lots and lots of sex with multiple partners every day and be able to keep that up forever. And on top of that, it is (theoretically) much easier to satisfy a man… and you know when you’ve done it… Are they going to offer some kind of satisfaction guarantee or something? If they do this, I feel like they stand to lose some potential profits.
I guess my point is just that I don’t see how this is a practical idea…
Although Heidi apparently has everything figured out… I pity whatever woman ends up with him, btw.
July 3, 2007 at 9:10 am
Why would male sex workers have to worry about their orgasms? Conventional sex work frequently has nothing to do with female pleasure at all. It’d only be equal if it were true the other way around, right?
I suspect that a brothel for female clients would be drastically different from the typical brothel – or from porn, since I’ve never actually been in a brothel. Not entirely because of differening physical needs, but because of the different psychological needs we’re trained to have… for an interesting experiment, visit a coed strip club. I went to one where men danced on one floor and women on another. The women were entirely naked and posed on poles: no touching, no talking. The men put on more of a burlesque with props and frequently interacted physically with their female spectators, touching and kissing and dominating them.
I didn’t care for it myself, but I could see what they thought they were catering to.