I suppose many find it counterintuitive that one ought to be nice to one’s courtesan. This is a failure of logic as much as it is one of compassion, and I suspect the flawed logic goes something like the following:
“In my normal life, I physically and/or socially unpleasant enough to prevent me from sexual relations most, if not all, of the time. Even if this isn’t the case, I must behave in ways I would not care to order to have sexual relations. Paying for sex essentially means that I have also paid for the right have sex with my chosen lady and let whatever shortcomings would normally repel women like water on a freshly waxed car hood flow freely from me. Every misogynistic instinct, failure of hygiene, control of temper and other negative emotions, all that stuff is stuff she is paid to suffer with a smile all while giving me quality service.”
Okay, here’s the flaw in that plan. Try paying anyone in any context you’d like for a service. Automotive, legal, medical, whatever you like. Be as big a dick as you feel entitled to be. Would you do this? Would it make any sense to do this? Well, a legal courtesan is just another professional you have hired to perform a service, only the service is more rarified, more desirable, and done in a contest of most profound vulnerability. Gratitude, humanity, and respect are owed to a legal courtesan because she’s doing something for you that you rarely find in an uncomplicated, high-quality, and clearly available form.
-Frank