Prostitution and the Onion theory

Prostitution is a common problem we have met for a long time. From IMF Chief Kahn on rape charges in 2011, to Obama's bodyguards in prostitution scandal recently, we have to admit that prostitution never left our sight. Prostitution is legal in some countries, but illegal in other many countries. Here is a picture which can show you the details about prostitution in different countries. Apparently, red areas are much more than green and blue areas. As human beings, how do we rationally treat the problem of prostitution?

In order to treat this problem correctly, we must make thorough analysis to it. First, we have to figure out what the nature of the prostitution. In my opinion, the nature of prostitution is just a deal. We can take a look around those prostitutes, and most of them are living at the bottom without any skill for living, and they only depend on selling their vagina to survive, what is just natural resource given by God. According to the lesser of two evils principle, frankly speaking, choosing to rent the vagina is rational choice between itself and death. Of course, their choices also conform to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and survival is most important. In nature, prostitutes are as same as those, who are blue-collar workers depending on skills for living, or who are professors depending on their mind and knowledge for living in famous universities, or who are great players depending on strong bodies and superb skills on basketball court or football field to get  10 millions dollars in pocket a year. The reason why they can get good pay is that the tangible or intangible assets they have can not be replaced, such as superb skills, wise minds or height, but the reason why prostitutes suffers so cheap is every female has a same cheap body asset – vagina. We can imagine that one day there is only one woman left, and how much is it if you want to have a sex with her. I think she will be priceless of the world. Prostitution is as same as other profession, just pays something out in order to get something back.

Why does prostitution suffer so serious criticisms? I think there are two main reasons:

1, due to people has not a very real understanding of sex, and we also link prostitution and sex together and think prostitution as immoral, evil and dirty.

2, in some male chauvinists or shameless scholars' eyes, prostitution is an unfair thing, because they claim that women can get double harvest both on physically and money, but men not only need to pay the money, but also have to work hard in vagina sweatily for women. This statement is very outrageous and absurd. I can give you an anti-example here: what if a man gets on an inflatable doll or a dead female body replaced a living woman, the man also will work hard on the top of them, and do you think male only work hard for the inflatable doll or dead body? The point that male work hard in vagina on bed just for women’s benefit is nonsense. Males are only for their own benefit to work so hard, of course the benefit is orgasm about 7 seconds shudder as return.

Every coin has two sides, costs and benefits. In fact, this theory just can be understood through mathematics in middle school. In my opinion, any sciences are connected, and start with one or two laws, and you can deduce everything just according to different areas.

We can define a formula like this:

B is the benefit what your want.

C is the cost what you have to pay in order to get the benefit B.

When C = 0, the formula of 

is meaningless or undefined.

Apparently, from mathematical point of view, we can deduce that the game only with benefit you want, but without any cost you should pay does not exist. Since division by zero is unbounded, it has no meaning, and so is not interpreted mathematically. So mathematicians say that, 'Division by zero is undefined.'

When P = 0, the formula of  

                            is always equal to zero.

It means that in any game, whatever you do or pay, you always can’t get your purpose from this game. You always get nothing, and then what should you do now? Mathematician will tell you only one way: make C also equal to zero, because in mathematics,  is called indeterminate form. Apparently, it

 tells us you can’t waste any cost in any game, if you can get nothing from it.

A classical example is “Not in my backyard”. In Taiwan, early NIMBY campaign under the slogan “chicken shit stayed in my backyard, the egg is in someone else”. Intelligent and rational people always don’t like to pay for the benefit of others.

The hierarchy of interests of every person is like an onion layers. The central interest is the core interest which person could give up anything to defend. Every rational person would give up the interests of the outer layer, in order to get the interests of the inner layer.

This onion theory is very similar to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, but there are still some differences between them.

1, Maslow’s theory is in two-dimensional, he just put the basic needs in the bottom, but onion theory is three-dimensional, I put it in the middle.

2, Maslow’s theory didn’t show the relationship between the two needs in the same level, but onion theory can show every need’s position in a person’s value.

3, Maslow’s needs are stable, not variable, and it can’t explain why somebody can sacrifice him/her self for a great aim, such as art, science or for special person, but onion theory thinks that every body has different hierarchy of interests in different situation, the hierarchy can be alterable under special case, and it also means the sequence can be changed by different case.

4, Maslow only told us people’ needs, but didn’t tell us the cost people would pay. Onion theory not only tells you the hierarchy of every one’s desire, but also the logical relationship between them.

On the issue of prostitution, the onion theory can explain it well.

According to the onion theory of prostitutes, living is in the center of every thing, more important than orgasm, and they can accept to rent her vagina to make living. So the deal is female get money to survive from male, but need to pay vagina out.

According to the onion theory of clients, having an orgasm on a woman is more close to the center than paying money. So the deal is male get a vagina to ejaculate from female, but need to pay money out.

I think money is the cheapest in people’s hierarchy of interests, because money is only used to satisfy the various needs of the people. I dare to say that if the client relies on the money to survive, he would never spend money on prostitutes, because he can masturbate to achieve orgasm.

About hard working in woman’s vagina is another deal, there is necessary and sufficient conditions between working hard and obtaining orgasm, in short, rubbing hard on his penis is sufficient condition of orgasm. I think one day women can figure out what is real female orgasm and how to get it, they also need hard working on her clitoral shaft to get the last shudder about 7 second.

Let's go back to the onion theory. I wrote that in my blog North Korea would never give up its nuclear test, regardless of whether U.S. gives food aid or not. In the eyes of that fat, his reign is the core interest of his onion, he didn’t care about nationals' survival or death at all. In other words, food aid from U.S. only benefits general public, but not him, the only one thing which can benefit him is nuclear threat. So if you want to have a deal with someone, you must have to know firstly what most important thing he cares. Wake up some ignorant people in the mind is rather more important than give them food. When whatever you pay, you always can’t get your purpose, there is only one rational decision you should make: make C also equal to 0. I think U.S. should take some more effective ways, not only just exercise in futility.

Finally, I just want to say, if you are a female, please don’t despise prostitutes, because you are a more unfortunate prostitute in some sense, but without pay. Maybe you are not lucky enough to be a female dung beetle, who only watch the males agonize over rolling the ball over to the hole while the female rides relaxed, just prepare to plant her eggs inside it (according to the Global Problems of Population Growth from Yale open course).

A famous Japanese AV girl called Aoi Sola once said that “The only purpose I am lying naked in front of a camera is just for living, but someone standing in front of a camera with well dressed is only for his lust and desire.”