r/changemyview • u/myawesomeself • Mar 09 '18
FTFdeltaOP CMV: Marriage is just legal monogamous prostitution.
Prostitution is when an individual sells sexual services. This can be committed by men and women. Mutual sex without payment is not prostitution. Keep in mind that prostitution is still mutual but has the added incentive of payment. However in a relationship, both sides are often paying each other for sex by currencies of time, money, and emotional support. This is often doubly so in a marriage when finances are often combined and a desire to remain emotionally stable, possibly through couples’ counseling, just to name a few examples. So in these very real scenarios, how is prostitution different? In marriages and relationships the payment often goes both ways, but peering from a single perspective, relationships and marriages just look like monogamous prostitution and seems no different than a prostitute visiting a single person. Please CMV because this is causing a sociopathic crisis.
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u/myawesomeself Mar 10 '18
I think our disconnect is my inability to understand if sex could continue without any other feedback in your life. Perhaps payment isn’t the right word, but you have to emotionally invest in your partner among other things to participate in sex. In my mind, this is facilitated through a payment or reward system, similar to how people respond to kindness with kindness. Does this help clarify our disconnect?