Couple of questions?
I have a habit of listening to the radio, and I can always hear some girls say like this: my boyfriend or husband treat me like shit, but he disagrees to break up with me. Why is that? The host of a live radio answers them like this: because you are free, without you he has to spend money to find a woman to have sex. I always hear a man complains like this: do you see that in all non-human animals, females take responsibility for rearing children alone, but why men have to take care of women and children? Do you think his complaint makes sense? As a mammal, why do other animals' males abandon females and children after mating, why do men not abandon them? Is it really because of love? Apparently both sexes are not satisfied with the going relationship. Why? Let's see how Dawkins describes the relationship between sexes in The selfish gene:
There are species, however, in which the male actually does more work in caring for the children than the female does. Among birds and mammals these cases of paternal devotion are exceptionally rare, but they are common among fish. Why? This is a challenge for the selfish gene theory which has puzzled me for a long time. An ingenious solution was recently suggested to me in a tutorial by Miss T. R. Carlisle. She makes use of Trivers's 'cruel bind' idea, referred to above, as follows.
Many fish do not copulate, but instead simply spew out their
sex cells into the water. Fertilization takes place in the open water, not
inside the body of one of the partners. This is probably how sexual
reproduction first began. Land animals like birds, mammals and reptiles, on the
other hand, cannot afford this kind of external fertilization, because their
sex cells are too vulnerable to drying-up. The gametes of one sex—the male,
since sperms are mobile—are introduced into the wet interior of a member of the
other sex—the female. So much is just fact. Now comes the idea. After
copulation, the land-dwelling female is left in physical possession of the
embryo. It is inside her body. Even if she lays the fertilized egg almost
immediately, the male still has time to vanish, thereby forcing the female into
Trivers's 'cruel bind'. The male is inevitably provided with an opportunity to
take the prior decision to desert, closing the female's options, and forcing
her to decide whether to leave the young to certain death, or whether to stay
with it and rear it. Therefore, maternal care is more common among land animals
than paternal care.
But for fish and other
water-dwelling animals things are very different. If the male does not
physically introduce his sperms into the female's body there is no necessary
sense in which the female is left 'holding the baby'. Either partner might make
a quick getaway and leave the other one in possession of the newly fertilized
eggs. But there is even a possible reason why it might often be the male who is
most vulnerable to being deserted. It seems probable that an evolutionary
battle will develop over who sheds their sex cells first. The partner who does
so has the advantage that he or she can then leave the other one in possession
of the new embryos. On the other hand, the partner who spawns first runs the
risk that his prospective partner may subsequently fail to follow suit. Now the
male is more vulnerable here, if only because sperms are lighter and more
likely to diffuse than eggs. If a female spawns too early, i.e. before the male
is ready, it will not greatly matter because the eggs, being relatively large
and heavy, are likely to stay together as a coherent clutch for some time.
Therefore a female fish can afford to take the 'risk' of spawning early. The
male dare not take this risk, since if he spawns too early his sperms will have
diffused away before the female is ready, and she will then not spawn herself,
because it will not be worth her while to do so. Because of the diffusion
problem, the male must wait until the female spawns, and then he must shed his
sperms over the eggs. But she has had a precious few seconds in which to
disappear, leaving the male in possession, and forcing him on to the horns of
Trivers's dilemma. So this theory neatly explains why paternal care is common
in water but rare on dry land.
I have not explicitly talked about man but inevitably, when we think about evolutionary arguments such as those in this chapter, we cannot help reflecting about our own species and our own experience. Notions of females withholding copulation until a male shows some evidence of long-term fidelity may strike a familiar chord. This might suggest that human females play the domestic-bliss rather than the he-man strategy. Many human societies are indeed monogamous. In our own society, parental investment by both parents is large and not obviously unbalanced. Mothers certainly do more direct work for children than fathers do, but fathers often work hard in a more indirect sense to provide the material resources that are poured into the children….
Wow!!!!!!Dawkins described the man as a Communist fighter or the sage. I don't blame him, because wise John Locke also believed that men choose to live with women in order to raise their children together. But I don't agree with them on this point. Do you wonder why man doesn't abandon his wife and children after mating? Don't tell me because of love, the stupid. Adam Smith said that “We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.” A body is really a machine blindly programmed by its selfish genes. As a selfish machine, man is trying to do the best for himself. For brevity, we shall again use the convention of thinking of man as though it had a conscious purpose. What is the conscious purpose of a man which drives man not leave after mating? This purpose must be different from that of non-human males in mating, because if they share the same purpose, male must take advantage of the idea of “cruel bind”. This chapter, I am going to trace back the history of the relationship between sexes. I am going to tell you a very true, cruel and unexpected history. As before, to trace back this history, we can follow the three steps for analyzing mutation and counter-strategy: (1) We start from original equilibrium. (2) How a mutation breaks the original equilibrium? (3) After a series of counter-strategies, a new equilibrium state arises.
A series of counter-strategies triggered by a
mutation
To see why, let's start with a choice. All men must pick one of the two options: one is to choose a woman, who has a vagina but no uterus; the other is to choose a woman, who has a uterus but no vagina. People's desire is always endless, but they have to face tradeoffs because of the limitation of their abilities. How do men choose? It depends on the hierarchy of all desires. 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. People's choice reflects a complete ranking of their preferences. Do you think men would choose whether vagina or uterus? I bet vagina. Verbal statements are no guarantee. Let's examine another question. One of the most striking properties of survival-machine behaviour is its apparent purposiveness. What is the purpose of a man getting into a marriage? Don't tell me a love, the stupid. In ancient china, a man can't see his wife until they are married. Don't tell me for taking care of the children together, the stupid. You should check the idea of “cruel bind” in the selfish genes, which neatly explains why paternal care is common in water but rare on dry land. In addition, it is not uncommon for a man abandoning his wife and children. Other non-human mammals mate only during female ovulation, and after mating season most males immediately leave females to live alone, but human males want to mate at all times, and after having children they still want to live with women. Why is that? If we can say that the purpose of animals mating is for reproduction, definitely human's purpose of mating is not for only reproduction. What causes men can't leave women, but non-human males can. I bet sex. Sex is the main driving force to push a man staying with a woman. So, facing the tradeoffs between vagina and uterus, men prefer vagina to uterus. In these two purposes, sex is main one, and reproduction is a tying or by-product.
Here I am going to tell you an unconfirmed story I made up for you. At the original equilibrium, human, as same as non-human mammals, only mates during female ovulation only, because they have only purpose of reproduction. Beyond female ovulation, males don't want to mate with females. At this time, males' actions are driven by purpose of reproduction. One day, suppose a mutant gene arose that changes the mating purpose from reproduction to physically enjoy. We can call this mutant gene as orgasm gene, before this mutation, the purpose of male mating is reproduction, so males only want to mate females during female ovulation, but after this mutation, the purpose of male mating is for his orgasm enjoy. As a selfish machine, purpose determines action, and new purpose determines new action, so males have to choose to stay with female in order to enjoy the sex release anyplace and anytime. This new mutation breaks the original equilibrium, because compared with mating only during female ovulation, mating everyday has an absolute advantage, so as a result, this mutant gene which purpose is for orgasm, could spread fast in species, and the old gene which purpose is for reproduction only, was completely eliminated. From now on, for men, the use of women has changed, or to be more exact, males need females as a passive tool to vent his turpitude upon her. I firmly believe that this is a credible story. By the way, I also wonder which animals have orgasms as same as men. Birds certainly do not, because they use cloaca to mate. Do all mammalian males have orgasms? Those males who only mate at the time of female ovulation are certainly not.
It is not easy to be misled when thinking about any situation as a result of a series of counter-strategies. What is the counter-strategy for woman, while man's strategy is to rape everywhere? I guess woman developed two counter-strategies without any brainwashing like G-spot or love at the beginning: one is seeking protection from the strongest man, the other is prostitution. I agree with a statement that prostitute must be the first one in woman' career history. There is no fundamental difference between the two strategies, and the former called wife is selling sex to one man, and the latter is called prostitute selling sex to every man. I agree with Marx: marriage is a kind of variant prostitution. What we seek is something equivalent to an evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS), apparently prostitution can hardly be a stable strategy, because of the congenital physical gap, and women don't have the power to bargain with men. Note that there are two important categories here: rape belongs to violent civilization while prostitution belongs to contract civilization. It is impossible to force a man into a contractual civilization by relying on a woman herself because rape, without any payment, is always the best strategy for men. what is to be done? Don't worry about that. Men find the business opportunities and join it. They hired muscle and organize women together to run a brothel. In prostitution, this is a win-win-win game. In short, the change of mating purpose must lead to the emergence of prostitution. Where there is a demand, there is a supply.
One principle of microeconomics is trade can make everyone better off, because trade allows each person to specialize in the activities he or she does best. By trading with others, people can buy a greater variety of goods and services at lower cost. Prostitutes as well as Clients also can benefit from the trade with each other, and from then on, the prostitutes become a very important profession. Those women providing you sex-services are not acting out of generosity. Nor is some government agency directing them to satisfy your desires. Instead, women provide men with the sex-services because they get safety and foods in return. Women can totally take advantage of vaginal at the best tool of making money, which given by God. A new equilibrium has established followed by, and there is no free sex-service or love between sexes at all, and all P-V models are charged. People face trade-offs, and sex-service and money are the two sides of a coin, and women or men must to give up one thing to get the other. The key of trade is not only absolute advantage, but also you have some goods or services what I want from you. Since then, women opened the road of alienation from professionalism of being prostitutes. Women are welcome formally into the role of prostitutes. Trade will inevitably lead to division of labor based on each comparative advantege, and further to specialization, and final to alienation. Since then, women have embarked on the path of alienation. What is alienation? In my words, alienation means people lost themselves in occupation, like actor can't distinguish between acting and living. What is woman alienation? It means women lost themselves in occupation of prostitutes, because previously women get survival resources by their hands from nature like other non-human female animals but afterwards women get survival resources by vagina, face and from men. Let us recall Dawkins's question in The selfish gene:
One feature of our own society that seems decidedly anomalous is the matter of sexual advertisement. As we have seen, it is strongly to be expected on evolutionary grounds that, where the sexes differ, it should be the males that advertise and the females that are drab. Modern western man is undoubtedly exceptional in this respect. It is of course true that some men dress flamboyantly and some women dress drably but, on average, there can be no doubt that in our society the equivalent of the peacock's tail is exhibited by the female, not by the male. Women paint their faces and glue on false eyelashes. Apart from special cases, like actors, men do not. Women seem to be interested in their own personal appearance and they are encouraged in this by their magazines and journals. Men's magazines are less preoccupied with male sexual attractiveness, and a man who is unusually interested in his own dress and appearance is apt to arouse suspicion, both among men and among women. When a woman is described in conversation, it is quite likely that her sexual attractiveness, or lack of it, will be prominently mentioned. This is true, whether the speaker is a man or a woman. When a man is described, the adjectives used are much more likely to have nothing to do with sex.
I am far from pretending that wives are in general no better treated than slaves; but no slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. Hardly any slave, except one immediately attached to the master's person, is a slave at all hours and all minutes; in general he has, like a soldier, his fixed task, and when it is done, or when he is off duty, he disposes, within certain limits, of his own time, and has a family life into which the master rarely intrudes. “Uncle Tom “ under his first master had his own life in his “cabin, “ almost as much as any man whose work takes him away from home, is able to have in his own family. But it cannot be so with the wife. Above all, a female slave has (in Christian countries) an admitted right, and is considered under a moral obligation, to refuse to her master the last familiarity. Not so the wife: however brutal a tyrant she may unfortunately be chained to—though she may know that he hates her, though it may be his daily pleasure to torture her, and though she may feel it impossible not to loathe him—he can claim from her and enforce the lowest degradation of a human being, that of being made the instrument of an animal function contrary to her inclinations.
When women become a commodity aimed for pandering to the male low, malignant and vulgar sexual desire, men must choose to shape so-called qualified women according to their sexual needs, as same as the businesses in order to pandering to buyers' needs to produce and shape the products aimed for getting higher returns. Men need submissive sex slaves, so women are trained by men to become submissive sex slaves to pander men for a good price. I agree with that 'The reciprocal bond basic to marriage is not set up between men and women, but between men and men by means of women, who are only the principal occasion for it,' says Lévi-Strauss. Women completely become private commodity during marriage system. Let's think about what men want from women. That is key question, because as goods women must be shaped into what men need. Next, we are going to examine what kind of women men need. I think there are three things a man wants to get from women: (1) sexual release; (2) love (precisely speaking respect and worship); (3) children and housemaid. Let's illustrate them one by one.
The main alienation of women is to pander to the sexual desire of men, because a market economy rewards people according to their ability to produce things that other people are willing to pay for. We must admit that human sexual desire is gross appetite, but as a product, women have to embrace this degrading duty. For, in his own body, man feels the sexual need only as a general need analogous to hunger and thirst, a need without particular object: the bond that holds him to this especial feminine body has, then, been forged by the Other. The adage “any port in a storm” is grossly cynical; man seeks something more than brute sexual pleasure; nevertheless, the prosperity of houses of prostitution is enough to prove that man can obtain some satisfaction from whatever woman is available. Desire, which frequently shrouds disgust, reveals disgust again when it is satisfied. I can understand that disgust immediately after my shiver for few seconds. I don't like porn video at all, because I feel that is malignant and vulgar, but I need to see it, and it is very useful for me. I see it with clear purpose only at the time when I need a sex release. Man pursues that chimera, a companion half sex slave, half free. When man takes possession of woman through the pleasure he gets from her, he also awakens in her the dubious power of fecundity: the organ he penetrates is the same as that which gives birth to the child. Evey man knows that morality is a vast hoax in sexuality, and the nature of pursuing orgasm must be obscene, vulgar, perverted and debauched, and he forgets anything about dignity when he is driven by libido. On the one hand, he lauds chaste and faithful wives, on the other hand, he asks his neighbour's wife to commit adultery. Man does not act according to the principles he professes and asks her to disobey them; he does not wish what he says he wishes. All women serve as sewer to the shining, wholesome edifice where respectable people have their abode. Gentlemen condemn vice in general but view their own personal whims with indulgence in sexuality, because they take P-V model for granted. In a word, man needs a passive flesh prey in sexuality, and then women are shaped into fresh preys and the plaything of disdain. The key is, as a commodity, women must cater to consumers. Since woman is destined to be possessed and consumed, her body must present the inert and passive qualities of an object, and lost all qualities of a subject. They have to dress up like an erotic object, and suffer further alienation during professionalism. She exaggerates her femininity, she adorns herself, she uses perfume, she makes herself all charm, all grace, pure immanence. She delights in the display of her “interior”, even of her own appearance. Women start to shape themselves according to males' desire. High heels, clinging satin, heavy make-up, and strong perfumes of today advertise her profession. The skirt is less convenient than trousers, high-heeled shoes impede walking. Her erotic capacities are integrated with the life. It is indeed to preserve this mystery that men have long begged women not to give up long skirts, petticoats, veils, long gloves, high-heeled shoes, because those mean feminine trait. A woman is changed into a doll of flesh. She was always dressed like a picture. What she treasures is herself adorned, and not the objects that adorn her. Neglected, “misunderstood”, they seek consolation in narcissistic fancies: they view themselves as romantic heroines of fiction, with self-admiration and self-pity. Clothes and conversation will satisfy much of this feminine taste for display. Woman, who would be men's idol, makes herself the slave of her admirers; she dresses, lives, breathes, only through men and for them. Of course, society controlled by men would give a positive feedback to her alienation, and men are more willing to spend money on a woman dressed up, because prostitute is her only profession to live. The better showing a woman makes, the more advantageous it is for her to appear prosperous. Smart appearance is a weapon, a flag, a defence, a letter of recommendation. It is all determined by interest, because the world is controlled by men, and the only thing women can do is to shape themselves in accordance with the male value, in order to obtain resources from men. The purpose of the fashions to which she is enslaved is not to reveal her as an independent individual, but rather to offer her as prey to male desires. When she has once accepted her vocation as sexual object, she enjoys adorning herself. For not only does the woman of fashion project herself into things, she has chosen to make herself a thing. The toilette is not only adornment, it also indicates woman's social situation, and its art is to create mirages and presents an imaginary object to the eye, like in Janpanese porn video. As a result, a woman's whole life is wasted on toilette, in order to pander to male's libido. Frankly, the object of a man's sexuality is passive flesh carnal prey instead of a woman with XX chromosomes because all men would have sexual impulse when they see a lady boy in Thailand with feminine and coquettish appearance. In short, the only thing, a man loves, is how to meet his desires, not women.
Men are not only satisfied with erotic release on women, but also deliberately train women into slaves. In order to make women be slaves, women are deprived of transcendence as normal human beings. Costumes and styles are often devoted to cutting off the feminine body from any activity: Chinese women with bound feet could scarcely walk, the polished fingernails of the Hollywood star deprive her of her hands; high heels, corsets, panniers, farthingales, crinolines were intended less to accentuate the curves of the feminine body than to augment its incapacity. Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior, and he refuses to accept his companion as an equal in any concrete way, each free being wishes to dominate the other. Men fix women's seats in mediocrity and give them enslaving education. She experiences that multifarious subjection. She is subject to her husband, she is subject to the guests. The feminine woman is making herself prey tries to reduce man, also, to her carnal passivity; she occupies herself in catching him in her trap, in enchaining him by means of the desire she arouses in him in submissively making herself a thing. Providing sex-service is the only profession for women, and women are trapped into prostitutes and deprived of any other chance. For a girl, erotic transcendence consists in becoming prey in order to gain her ends. A woman is rendered more desirable to the extent that nature is more highly developed in her and more rigorously confined: it is the 'sophisticated' woman who has always been the ideal erotic object. Make-up and jewellery also further this petrification of face and body. The function of ornamental attire is very complex; with certain primitives it has a religious significance; but more often its purpose is to accomplish the metamorphosis of woman into idol. Woman is enraptured in solitude. Due to male compliment, she sinks so often into such foolishness because she has no hold upon the world. Man likes woman as prey, and woman is proud of catching male interest, of arousing admiration. Fated as she is to be the passive prey of man. All girls, from the most servile to the haughtiest, learn in time that to please they must abdicate. Men do not like tomboy, or bluestockings, or brainy women; too much daring, culture, or intelligence, too much character, will frighten them. The young girl is supposed not only to deck herself out, to make herself ready, but also to repress her spontaneity and replace it with the studied grace and charm taught her elders. Any self-assertion will diminish her femininity and her attractiveness. Actually, it is not by increasing her worth as a human being that she will gain value in men's eyes; it is rather by modeling herself upon their dream. The privileged place held by men in economic, their social usefulness, the prestige of marriage, the value of masculine backing, all this makes women wish ardently to please men. In becoming a bluestocking, a woman of brains, she will make herself unattractive to men in general. Women are still, for the most part, in a state of subjection. Men indeed decide whether their supreme divinities shall be females or males; woman's place in society is always that which men assign to her; at no time has she ever imposed her own law. She did not share his way of working and thinking, that the male did not recognize in her a being like himself. Since he did not accept her, since she seemed in his eyes to have the aspect of the other, man could not be otherwise than her oppressor. The male will to power and expansion made of woman's incapacity a curse. The inevitable result is that masculine accomplishment is far superior to that of women, who are practically forbidden to do anything. They have no opportunity of doing anything constructive. Balzac expressed the same ideal in more cynical terms. In the Physiologie du mariage he wrote: 'The destiny of woman and her sole glory are to make beat the hearts of men…she is a chattel and properly speaking only a subsidiary to man.' She experiences that multifarious subjection. The life of society demands that she “make a showing”, that she put herself on exhibition, but not that she establish any true communication between herself and others. It does not take her out of her isolation. She is a pure instrument without getting a grip on the world. It is man who will act as intermediary between his wife as an individuality and the universe. She has only to put her existence in his hands and he will give it meaning. Every benefit always has as its bad side some burden; but if the burden is too heavy, the benefit seems no longer to be anything more than a servitude. So we must first go on to describe woman such as men have fancied her in their dreams, for what-in-men's- eyes-she-seems-to-be is one of the necessary factors in her real situation. Man wants woman to be object: she makes herself object. It is through the service of sex that she gets benefits. Master and slave, also, are united by a reciprocal need, in this case economic, which does not liberate the slave. Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she can not fly. For time to seem to her to go round and round without ever leading anywhere. She is occupied without ever doing anything, and thus she identifies herself with what she has. She will lose time in shopping, in having fittings, and the rest. This dependence on things, a consequence of the dependence in which men keeps her. Women have nothing to do, but only treat their bodies as capital to be exploited. She has paid for her success by too much slavish compliance. In short, this is the cruel bind in interest.
Like I said before, monogamy
does push women into more wretched condition, rather than liberating
women. Since ancient times,
Prostitution can
not be forbidden forever, because trade is spontaneous which can make each of
them better off. Here I give you an example Figure 3.1. We shall use some
arbitrary hypothetical values for the various costs and benefits. Suppose that
the pay-off gained from prostitution by man is +20 units, and the cost of money
a man has to pay is 10. Therefore, in the deal of sex-service, consumer's
surplus is 20-10=10 units. Suppose that the pay-off gained from prostitution by
woman is 10 units, and the cost of a woman during intercourse is 5 units. Therefore,
in the deal of sex-service, producer's surplus is 10-5=5 units. Here I want to
address the cost of a woman here is opportunity cost, equivalent to accounting
cost, because selling sex is the only job for women. Woman and man both can
benefit from this deal. Not everyone may be happy with the outcome of this sex-service
process. Because man always wants a lower price while woman want a higher
price, the interests of the two groups conflict. These views are not
surprising: Buyers always want to pay less, free sex best, and sellers always
want to be paid more. But is there a “right price” for both of them? How are
the gains from trade shared between the trading parties? I think the price need
not be exactly in the middle for both parties to gain, but it must be somewhere
between 5 and 20, because the surplus of both are positive. Prostitution is always
spontaneous and an equilibrium between two sexes from beginning to end. A
competitive market is economically efficient because it maximizes aggregate
consumer and producer surplus. We begin with Pareto efficient allocation,
analyzing the exchange between two sexes. First, I want to address that in P-V
model, woman is always the seller of sex-service, and man is always the buyer
of sex-service, and P-V model is one-way trade. In in the following Figure 3.1,
each point describes the market baskets of both sexes. Man's holdings are read
from the origin at OM and woman's holdings in the reverse direction
from the origin at OW. For example, point A represents the initial
allocation of money and sex resourse. This assum ption is reasonable, because
vagina, as an endowment, was given by God, and so far, most of wealth is in the
hands of men, and both of them can make themselves better off by trading with each
other. In this case, the initial allocation of Point A is economically inefficient.
We can also see the effect of prostitution. Man gives up
The above Figure 3.1 (Edgeworth Box) illustrates the possibilities for both sexes to increase their satisfaction by prostitution. If A gives the initial allocation of resources, the shaded area describes all mutually beneficial trades. Starting at A, any trade that moved the allocation outside the shaded area would make one of the two sexes worse off and should not occur (if women are rational, and there is no free sex-service in the world). The move from A to B was mutually beneficial. But B is not an efficient point because indifference curves UM2and UW2intersect. In this case, man's and woman's MRSs are not the same and the allocation is not efficient. From point B the additional trade is made, with man giving up another unit of money to obtain another unit of sex-service and woman giving up a unit of sex-service for a unit of money. Point C gives the new allocation. At C, the MRSs of both people are identical, because at point C the indifference curves are tangent. Trading money for sex-service and thereby moving from point B to point C has allowed man and woman to achieve a Pareto efficient outcome, and they will both be better off. When the indifference curves are tangent, one person cannot be made better off without making the other person worse off. Therefore, C represents an efficient allocation. Of course, point C is not the only possible efficient outcome of a bargain between two sexes. For example, if man is an effective bargainer, a trade mignt change the allocation from A to D, where indifference curve UM3is tangent to indifference curve UW1. This allocation would leave woman no worse off than she was at point A and man much better off. Conversely, if woman is an effective bargainer, a trade mignt change the allocation from A to E, where indifference curve UM1is tangent to indifference curve UW4. This allocation would leave man no worse off than he was at point A and woman much better off. Thus D and E are both efficient allocations, although man prefers D to E and woman E to D. In general, it is difficult to predict the allocation that will be reached in a bargain because the end result depends on the bargaining abilities of the people involved. Notice here: three allocations labeled C, D, and E are Pareto efficient, although each involves a different distribution of money and sex resourse, because one person could not be made better off without making someone else worse off. Once a point on a contract curve, such as C, has been chosen, there is no way to move to another point on the contract curve, say E or D, without making one person worse off. At present most of women, with economic independent, go out to work to support themselves, and it means they provides free sex-service for husbands in a sense. Let's assume point C presents prostitution, and moving from C to D means man gets money and sex at the same time and woman losses money and sex at the same time. It would't happen if woman is rational, because free sex-service is strictly dominated by pay sex-service. Lesson 1 of The Game Theory: Do not play a strictly dominated strategy. In other word, a strictly dominated strategy is not stable strategy in evolution. Game between two sexes tends to converge down towards prostitution, and underlying idea is that, woman is born to prostitute, and man to whoremaster. Neither has any incentive to move away, when man and woman reach equilibrium, because now either is playing a best response to each other. In equilibrium, woman must refuse to provide sex-servcie if man stops paying, and man must refuse to pay if woman stops providing sex, because it is in self-interest to do so. There is no profitable deviation for each in prostitution because other player must react to it, and equilibrium of prostitution can be a self-enforcing agreement.
After woman
gets economic independence, in a sensible world woman must
refuse to provide sex-service immediately, but habit is second nature, and woman's
behavior is driven by inertia. We must admit there is big lag in human social evolution,
but economic freedom is the premise of spiritual freedom. In the past, she has
no gainful occupation, no legal capacities, no personal relations, even her
name is hers no longer; she is nothing but her husband's half; she has been required
to involve herself wholly in her marriage, and a married woman is on her guard
against young women to steal her job, the only thing she would do to keep alive
is to catch a husband, and she learns that her erotic attractiveness is the
weakest of her weapons, so she has to use make-up and nail-polish in order to
keep a husband. In nature, she has to make money from pandering man. In ancient
China, women struggle with each other in the palace in order to please emperor;
behind this phenomenon actually women compete for power and status, instead of
a man just with a penis. Nowadays woman losses benefit of prostitutes, but maintains
the attribute of prostitute. In other words, woman retains the attributes of
commodities for use and consumption, but loses the price of commodities. This
is the most unfortunate point for women. I agree with this view there is no
true friendship between women, because they are not subject at all. While women
are confined within their general feminine lot and are bound together by a kind
of immanent complicity. They negate the sexual domination of the males by
admitting their frigidity to one another, while deriding the men's desires or
their clumsiness. Women's fellow feeling rarely rises to genuine friendship, because
they know they are potential competitors for pandering men, and their relations
are not founded on their individualities, but immediately experienced in
generality; and from this arises at once an element of hostility. There exists
also a hostile rivalry between them, and she wants to be thought irreplaceable,
indispensable. Many women are together just to kill time, and they prudently
avoid intimates once they are in love. In a state of uncertainty, every woman
is a rival, a danger. Love destroys the possibility of friendship with other
women because the woman in love is shut off in her lover's universe; jealousy increases
her isolation and thereby narrows her dependence. This ambivalence makes it
hardly possible for women to repose much confidence in their mutual feelings. In
fact, in my eyes they are all free prostitutes, and I am not interested in
being free prostitutes at all. It would be quite wrong to suppose that woman
escapes slavery in having economic independence; on the contrary, she is doomed
not to get rid of the slavery and live only in fear and servility. In any case,
the woman who works wishes to reconcile her professional success with purely
feminine accomplishments; not only does this mean that she must devote
considerable time to her appearance, and she will give only what is strictly
necessary to her studies, her career. Everything combines to restrain her
personal ambition, and enormous social pressure still urges her on to find
social position and justification in marriage. He is first a citizen, a
producer, secondly a husband; she is before all and often exclusively, a wife;
her word does not take her out of her situation. You will find an interesting
phenomenon in
Men act as liberating hero. After woman finding herself still trapped in slavery circle when she was liberated in economy, man claims that woman could also be liberated in sexuality. Woman begins to blindly learn man's sexual openness and free-love. Not surprisingly, men are still beneficiaries in this liberation movement. She would fain escape these aspects of her past: be passive in sexuality, and she wants to be a sovereign subject at once in sexuality: be active. She is made a fool of again. In order to achieve the aim, various cults arise like G-spot, female multiple orgasms and so on. This is the reason why woman has a double and deceptive visage: in order to be exalted she must be downtrodden. This is the best way to keep legitimacy of P-V model which is benefial for man only. Is this a case of double standards? Yes, it is, but ignorant women still accept this hypocrisy and double standards. He demands that she confesses her pleasure and recognizes her subjection, and encourage woman to mimic dominance in sex movements, but she still fails to reach the climax of pleasure. From a more or less unsatisfactory affair a man is almost sure of obtaining at least the benefit of sex pleasure; a woman can very well obtain no benefit at all. Aristotle fancied that the foetus arose from the union of sperm and menstrual blood, woman furnishing only passive matter while the male principle contributed force, activity, movement, life. Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one. 'Thus man, in consequence of that differentiation, is the active principle while woman is the passive principle because she remains undeveloped in her unity.' Yes, they are right, because in P-V model, women are needed to be passive when men vent his turpitude upon her. In other word, what a man need in sex release is just a passive hole. In woman's value, men are not my fellows; they are persons who judge me. In addition, woman starts to cheat her husband to imitate man's deception. Woman's infidelity is always a mode of revenge and imitation. That is going too far, but unquestionably she wonders whether she can enjoy different pleasures with others, and she is likely to finish her orgasm education in some other bed. The suckers are doomed to be exploited by cheats, and no one can change that. Ignorance is the only soil that produces tyranny. In both cases she lacks any grasp on the world; she does not escape her destiny; her liberty remains frustrated. In short, the best policy for such a selfish machine will often be one thing if it is male, and quite a different thing if it is female. As a result, women don't get what they want in the sexual liberation movement, but they loss what they used to have because they don't know what you want.
Perhaps the myth of female orgasm will some day be extinguished; the more women assert themselves as human beings, the more the marvellous quality of the prey will die out in them. If one day woman give up disguising herself as a symbol, she would be regarded as a normal human being as same as man, and then she can find the aggressive sexuality back. By the way, according my experience, sexual release is aggressive movement with transcendence. I have to admit that pseudo-equilibrium is a necessary stage to the next real equilibrium. There is no short cut in evolution. I bet if you caused the most frigidity of women to feel what I feel, they would at once give up their false pleasures to enjoy such true delight. What all women seek is not only a transcendence, but also a redemption of their femininity. They must reject the limitations of their situation and seek to open the road of the future. It remains only for women to continue their ascent, and the successes they are obtaining are an encouragement for them to do so. It seems almost certain that sooner or later they will arrive at complete economic and social equality, which will bring about an inner metamorphosis. Men have been led, in their own interest, to give partial emancipation to women. In truth woman has not been socially emancipated through man's need—sexual desire and the desire for offspring—which makes the male dependent for satisfaction upon the female. Master and slave, also, are united by a reciprocal need, in this case economic, which does not liberate the slave. In the relation of master to slave the master does not make a point of the need that he has for the other; he has in his grasp the power of satisfying this need through his own action; whereas the slave, in his dependent condition, his hope and fear, is quite conscious of the need he has for his master. Being liberated is never a real liberation. Women are falling into the trap of the Utopia of “free woman”.
Women VS Proletariat
Is the woman really liberated? Simone de Beauvoir wrote that in the second sex:
The parallel drawn by Bebel between women and the proletariat is valid in that neither ever formed a minority or a separate collective unit of mankind… They are women in virtue of their anatomy and physiology. Throughout history they have always been subordinated to men, and hence their dependency is not the result of a historical event or a social change—it was not something that occurred…. Equality cannot be re-established until the two sexes enjoy equal rights in law; but this enfranchisement requires participation in general industry by the whole female sex…. Marx believe that woman can be emancipated only when she can take part on a large social scale in production and is engaged in domestic work only to an insignificant degree. And this has become possible only in the big industry of modern times, which not only admits of female labour on a grand scale but even formally demands it... Thus the fate of woman and that of socialism are intimately bound up together, as is shown also in Bebel's great work on woman. 'Woman and the proletariat,' he says, 'are both downtrodden.'… And when the socialist society is established throughout the world, there will no longer be men and women, but only workers on a footing of equality…. Similarly, it is not clear that the institution of private property must necessarily have involved the enslavement of women…. Marx and Engels gauged its whole range, and they promised women a liberation implied in that of the proletariat…. As the swift growth of industry demanded a larger working force than the males alone could furnish, the collaboration of women became necessary…. That was the grand revolution of the nineteenth century, which transformed the lot of woman and opened for her a new era…. In fact, 'woman and the worker have this in common: that they are both oppressed,' said Bebel…. Engels showed that the lot of woman has been closely tied to the history of private property….
Actually, Beauvoir did not agree with the above point
of view, she believes that between the cause of the proletariat and that of
women there was no such immediate solidarity as Bebel and Engels claimed. I do
agree with Beauvoir. Because of the labor crisis in World War I, more and more
women have to work outside. War is like any unexpected event, where some people
can benefit from at expense of others' losses. In making this decision, men have
to weigh two effects: substitution effect and Income effect. In one hand, men
will meet many competitors if let women go out to work, and they face the
threat of losing their jobs; but one the other hand, women can earn money to
support their families, and men can also benefit from it. To be honest, letting
women to work outside is the choice of man's weighing the pros and cons on his
own interest, and men never liberated women. The reason is simple this is a
zero-sum game between two sexes, where the contradiction between them is deeply
rooted and irreconcilable. Dawkins wrote that in Chapter 9 battle of the sexes “If
there is conflict of interest between parents and children, who share 50 per
cent of each others' genes, how much more severe must be the conflict between
mates, who are not related to each other? I agree with Trivers that sexual partnership is a
relationship of mutual mistrust and mutual exploitation. Let us think about why
the proletariat wants to liberate women? Marx believed that the elimination of
private ownership will solve some of the contradictions. I admit that private
ownership must cause women to be enslaved, but does the public ownership really
liberate women? I don't think so. The main reason why the proletariat liberates
women is catering to the majority of proletarian men, because under patriarchy
girl's ownership is in the hand of her father who is a selfish and rational
person and can not let his daughter marry a poor guy. Liberating women means
destroying patriarchy and then senting women to proletarian men. Frankly
speaking, the purpose of the proletarian revolution is just for money and women,
and I bet no one would follow a leader to revolute if he doesn't promise a utopian
future. Of course, the only prerequisite for the existence of cheats is the
existence of suckers. Secondary reason why the proletariat liberates women is catering
to all ignorant women. Under patriarchy woman was always kept at home by her
father, and she didn't have any insight or any social experience, so she attributed
her misfortune and being oppressed to patriarchy instead of inherent
contradiction between two sexes. As a result, ignorant women were bewitched to revolt the
patriarchy, because proletariat makes her to believe that she and her father
have antagonistic interests rather than common interests. Women are always
credulous and gullible. Instead of being liberated, woman became a free
prostitute, polyandry and public good in socialism. After the victory of the
proletarian revolution, wind direct changed again. These ancient patriarchal
restraints are just what Soviet Russia has brought back today;
Prisoner's dilemma between sexes
Stuart Muller believed that marriage is the only remaining example of slavery and even worse than slavery. Where should we go? Can we go back to previous equilibrium? I am afraid not. In the past, women don't go out for work, and man takes for granted that after marriage he has the obligation to support the woman or at least helps her financially because he vents his turpitude upon her, but nowadays due to the cult of “G-spot” or “Vagina orgasm”, man refuse to support the woman financially and ask going Dutch during marriage because he thinks women can also benefit from P-V model. Man dresses himself up as Giver; even believes women should give him money after sexual intercourse. The problem is on woman. Man is not wrong to maximize his payoff and minimize his cost. As long as woman keeps foolish, pseudo-equilibrium will continue. Now the relationship between two sexes formal entried the pseudo-equilibrium: Women still keep the property of goods consumed by men, but loss the price of goods. To be honest, I prefer to decline entering into such a compact with anyone, because I can't profit from it. The fact is that today neither men nor women are satisfied with each other. We deny there is an original curse that condemns them to rend each other and the existence of a rivalry between the human male and female of a truly physiological nature, and it is inevitable conflicts in which they are opposed merely mark a transitional moment in human history, and instead we instil the idea of “Love” into women's mind in order to maintain this pseudo-equilibrium where the sexual act was not to be considered a “service” to be paid for. Many modern women who lay claim to their dignity as human beings still envisage their erotic life from the standpoint of a tradition of slavery. Her condition has remained the same through superficial changes, and it is this condition that woman gets some so-called dignity but at expense of losing money. Actually men are painful at present. In the past, woman has no any rights to say no when her hasband asks for sex-service. Someone remarks that there are certainly more rapes committed in marriage than outside it. But now marital rape has been considered as a crime in many countrys, according to the idea of human rights. As a result, woman always choose refusal instead of docility from her deep heart, because she still has inferior a feeling of inferiority a sense of frustration in P-V model and view sex as a chore. She has to yield to the male's authority, but trys to refuse obedience. That “obedience” is legally no longer one of her duties in no way changes her situation; for this depends not on the will of human but on the lot. Women hate for ever a man who selfishly takes his pleasure at the price of their suffering. At a matter of fact, many women become mothers and grandmothers without ever having experienced the orgasm or even any sex excitement at all. Kinsey states that there are many wives “how report that they consider their coital frequencies already too high and wish that their husbands did not desire intercourse so often. A few wives wish for more frequent coitus”. The key is woman's erotic capabilities are not rooted in P-V model which chosen as reproduction model by God. Not only does man play the active role in the sexual life, but he is active also in going beyond it; he is rooted in the sexual world, but he makes his escape from it; woman remains shut up in it. In addition, prostitution is regarded as illegal activity, so husband suffers a serious dilemma. Under the patriarchy, woman has no rights to divorce, and a man holds the ownership of woman for her whole life after buying her from her father at the expanse of bride-price, but now man is not willing to pay the price, because the validity of marital contract is ambiguous in current marriage system. Man also has no sense of security, what if she divorces me the day after wedding day? Marriage is a kind of prostitution under patriarchy and polygamy with explicit rights, duties and the date of maturity without marital rape, human rights or love, but now marriage is a kind of free prostitution under feminism and monogamy without explicit rights, duties and the date of maturity. No one is a fool from long-run view. But if her experience enables her to unmask deceits and lies, it is not sufficient to show her the truth. Of course they need a Savior, and here I am. When one fails to adhere to an accepted code, one becomes an insurgent. Woman who does not wish to appear eccentric will conform to the usual rules.
The problem of prostitution
As a matter
of public policy, many societies make it illegal for women to sell their sex-service.
In essence, in the market for sex-service, the government has imposed a price ceiling
of zero. The result, as with any binding price ceiling, is a shortage of the good.
Why do so many governments ban prostitution? And why does prostitution still exist
in any country? Let me give you my view step by step. Who will gain from free
sex-service and who will lose? Obviously, all men are beneficiaries, because at
least they can get free sex-service from a woman under the conditions that (1)
Women must be into a heterosexual monogamy; (2) Sex ratio is 1:1. On the
contrary, all women are losers, because they loss the opportunity to sell her natural
resources givn by God. In this situation, the rational woman's best response should
be exit the free sex-service market, which is with neither pays nor receives. To
be honest, Sex ratio out of balance is not the key of left man crisis in
Premarital sex is sexual activity practiced by people who are unmarried. Historically, premarital sex was considered a moral issue which was taboo in many cultures and considered a sin by a number of religions, but since about the 1960s, it has become more widely accepted, especially in Western countries. A 2014 Pew study on global morality found that premarital sex was considered particularly unacceptable in "predominantly Muslim nations", such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan and Egypt, each having over 90% disapproval, while people in Western European countries were the most accepting, with Spain, Germany and France expressing less than 10% disapproval.The Roman Catholic Church calls premarital sex a deadly sin, that must be forgiven in confession.
What is the fucking logic? If a woman provides the same services in bed, it is illegal to charge men but legal not to charge men? How absurb the logic is! If you ban prostitution, you must ban any non-marital sex, including premarital sex and adultery. That is following the same logic. I was surprised to find that West is not all correct and Muslim nations are not all wrong. In Muslim, some versions of Sharia law require that married or divorce persons found guilty of Zina (adultery) be executed by stoning or honor killing. An honor killing or a shame killing is the homicide of a member of a family, due to the perpetrators' belief that the victim has brought shame or dishonor upon the family, or has violated the principles of a community or a religion, usually for reasons such as refusing to enter an arranged marriage, being in a relationship that is disapproved by their family, having sex outside marriage, becoming the victim of rape, dressing in ways which are deemed inappropriate. Now I can understand why premarital sexual intercourse is viewed as sexual offense, and deserve a sentence of stoning to death or severe flogging or honor killing. The answer is simple: Free services disrupt normal market order of trade. I haven't done any research about that, but I guess the fathers who have daughters and rich man in upper class are both hate premarital sex and adultery best, because almost all premarital sex and adultery are free and they are the victims of free sex-services. You can find that only poor men and ignorant women praise love, because one of them is Cheats and the other is Suckers, and they will destroy the market order. As a result, fathers and rich man, as Grudgers, must try to maintain market order. I don't agree with the honor killing, but I understand. You must think I'm cold-blooded, but that's the truth. Irrational women disturbed normal economic market order because any free goods and services do. I strongly recommend that American should use the brain to think why a civilization lasted for so many years before condemning it or total repudiation.
I bet prostitute exists in every country, just aboveground or underground economy. Why? Answer this question with a typical economic language: where there is a demand, there will be a supply. “The underground is a good measure of the progress and the health of nations,” Schlosser writes. “When much is wrong, much needs to be hidden.” Schlosser's implication was that much is wrong in the United States. How are the gains from trade shared between the trading parties? For both parties to gain from trade, the price at which they trade must lie between the two opportunity costs. Both sexes can gain by opening up trade and specializing based on comparative advantage. I am united in the support of free sex trade. Who would be prostitutes after the truth of female orgasm becomes known to all public? The principle of comparative advantage states that sex service should be produced by the women who have the smaller opportunity cost of providing sex service. This process is the professionalization of sex workers. Don't make me wrong, I approve of the legalization of prostitution, but it doesn't mean every woman must sell sex for survival, what I want to do is to fight for a right that women can sell a natural resource givn by God for survival. What is the price of sex-service? The price need not be exactly in the middle for both parties to gain in a mutually advantageous trade, but it must be somewhere between them. These two people can bargain face to face and allocate surplus between them. Vagina, as a scarce resource with asymmetry, only belongs to woman. The more scarce resource is, the more valuable. The only difference between prostitution and those women, who enter P-V model, is in the price of contract; one is providing paid sex-service and the other is providing free sex service. In fact, the institution of marriage was also a form of prostitution. As a defender of free market, I have two principles of sex-service to state: one is both adult; two is both voluntary. “Consenting adults should be able to make economic trades when they think it is to their mutual advantage,” said Greg Mankiw, a Harvard economics professor. Adam Smith called it “the invisible hand”—the mysterious power that leads innumerable people, each working for his own gain, to promote ends that benefit many. Out of the seeming chaos of millions of uncoordinated private transactions emerges the spontaneous order of the market. Free human beings freely interact, and the result is an array of goods and services more immense than the human mind can comprehend. Indeed, the more an economy is planned, the more it is plagued by shortages, dislocation, and failure.
Since we can't eliminate
prostitution, we should try to regulate it and treate sex work much like any
other kind of work. No doubt many of you work for a living. Sex work is work
too. What is important is that they have the right to work safely and on explicit
terms. They want full decriminalization and labor rights as other workers. To
be honest, I believe that most of prostitutes are poor women, because in
selling sex they have to lay down dignity. Most of those people would tell you
that selling sex is degrading; there should be a law against it. People have
all kinds of complicated feelings when it comes to sex. The legalization of
prostitution is beneficial for the whole society. Both
The essence of marriage is contract. Where does the relationship between sexes head in future? First going monogamy tenure must collapse finally, because it is not an equilibrium. Like prisoners' dilemma, in monogamy both of sexes have the incentive to cheat. In the language of game theory, women can be better off selling sex, and men can be better off buying sex, so it is difficult to estabilish and maintain cooperation between two sexes. Lack of cooperation is desirable from the standpoint of society as a whole. Put differently, the invisible hand guides markets to allocate resources efficiently only when markets are competitive, and markets are competitive only when firms in the market fail to cooperate with one another. Second, with the refinement of division of labor, women are also divided into different occupations: some of them are professional prostitutes; some of them are professional surrogate mother; some of them are professional doctor; some of them are professional teachers. If the time of 20th Century is the time of emancipation of the black slaves, 21th Century must be the time of emancipation of sex slaves. True equality between the two sexes does not exist even today, and now marriage becomes pseudo-equilibrium where the burdens weigh much more heavily upon woman than upon man. It can bring you a lot of benefits, if you take some time to get used to the logic of economic thinking. You will find an interesting phenomenon is that Socialism and Capitalism have different attitudes towards the two things: One is money, and the other is sex. Socialist countries educate people to despise these two things which are a violation of human nature; on the contrary capitalist country educate people to persue these two things which are human nature. Except in the Soviet Union, China and North Korea, modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation. Prostitution is tolerated in lots of European countries. Let's go back to America, so-called the most advanced civilization. I believe that almost all-American economists oppose such barriers to free trade, but monogamy and prohibition of prostitution are both such barriers to free sex trade. America has always advocated free trade, but why only set a restriction on sex trade? Does the U. S. government really know what justice is? I will talk about it in next chapter.
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