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JDawg said:
I'll repeat my point again, so we're clear:
• Beyond this, the essentials of the job are the same; from the prostitute or porn star's point of view, it generally doesn't matter who they are having sex with.
• It depends on how similar you intend to describe them. They are, essentially, the same.
• In the end, though, they are both fucking for money.
Now, you have omitted
none of this in what you quoted, but I want you to focus on the first two. A certain word appears, albeit in different forms, in both. The similarity is
essential. The word
essential is
defined, in this context, "of, relating to, or constituting". Synonyms include
fundamental,
vital, and
cardinal. The jobs are
fundamentally the same. The
vital similarity is that they both fuck for money. The
cardinal aspect (e.g., without which the practice disappears) is the idea of sexual acts in exchange for money.
You even concede the point:
True, but that's as close as the comparisons get.
That's all the comparison needs to accommodate the word
essentially.
If you want to use that kind of logic, then me having sex with my girlfriend is essentially the same, considering that I had to court her with dinners and dates and movies. I essentially paid for the right to have sex with her, but it was more of a lay-a-way than a direct purchase...according to your logic, anyway, which we all know isn't really logic at all.
By that reasoning, the only purpose of courting is to buy sex. As such, the idea of getting to know someone, of deciding whether or not you wish to engage in sexual relations or build a lasting relationship are irrelevant. If that's the case, and the only reason for taking a potential partner for dinner and a movie is to buy sexual favors, then yes, it
is essentially the same thing.
Ask your girlfriend what your pre-sexual dating was for. Tell her you thought you were buying sex and let us know what she says.
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Orleander said:
Do you have to have some kind of license to make a movie?
No, not really. If you want to
sell the movie, you might choose to get a business license, but I don't think it's strictly necessary if, say, you and your husband decide to make a movie and sell a few DVDs at a garage sale. Depending on the scale of the operation, a business license will eventually become necessary.
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EmptyForceOfChi said:
an apple is simular to a pear but they are not the same.
Or, perhaps, we might say that a Granny Smith and a Jonagold are both apples, but they're not the same thing.
The pear would be the geeky-looking waiter who stands behind the cash register and appears to masturbate while watching you fuck your partner on the buffet table, although we never see his penis in any sense that proves it's his.
In the film, that is. In real life, we'd probably call that a health hazard. One of several.