The Secret History of Prostitution
Apparently sex does not always sell. At least that is the sentiment expressed by the LA Times in a review of Showtime’s controversial series, “The Secret Diary of a Call Girl.” The show spotlights the escapades of Belle Piper, a high-class prostitute in London who works as a secretary by day and hooker at night.
It’s like Sex and the City (for Money). And what could leave a viewer dissatisfied with a sex infused, exploitative, R18 rated show drenched in controversy? “It fails to provide any kind of meaningful insight into the world’s oldest profession,” says the New Zealand Blog Snuff.
Are prostitute’s loosing their societal import? Karen Abbott author of “Sin in the Second City,” chronicles the history of the nation’s first red light district. Ironically, “prostitutes were conduits for virtue,” she says. A segregated red light district was surreptitious outlet for men to liberate bad habits, thereby upholding moral conduct in public society.
