The brilliant Rebecca Mott’s clear, piercing voice feels like an oracle for prostituted women. She has a new post up on her blog called “Looking for Unicorns” which takes on the ridiculousness of two ciphers the sex industry uses constantly in its attempt to silent survivors: the “good punter (John/customer) “and the “happy hooker.” Here’s an excerpt:
You will abandoned the prostituted, or they get in the way of your rose-tainted scenery. For that I will damned you to hell.
One myth of the good punter is the concept that punters will say (report) and even stop if there are prostituted women in danger, if he sees a prostituted woman may be trafficked, that the prostitute is under-aged, that the prostitution is run by crooks.
This is utter bullshit – but it is nice to believe such rubbish.
Punters know and don’t care that all those types of prostitutes are easy to access. Most punters see and hear the prostitutes being beaten, raped and mentally tortured – even if he make the choice to be “gentle”, he is in the environment where he has full permission to be sadistic.
I hate to burst your balloon – but if punters do report abuse or trafficking, it is usually to save his own skin in fear of being arrested or having his name known. He would have fucked the prostitute before he chooses to report it – he gets his money worth.
There is no such thing as the good punter – for if a man has “good” in him he would not even think to buy a prostitute for his selfish sexual wants.
Wow – i am just learning about love having denied myself any feelings for a woman most of my life – and you open another door into a world i know nothing about – i will be back to read more -