johnny9fingers | As a continuation of yesterday's blog..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/nov/15/diary-london-callgirl-phd-student-brooke-magnanti

Among sex workers themselves there was little surprise that a well-educated woman like Magnanti had got into prostitution. "Loads of people who work in the sex industry are academics – education is a very expensive habit," said Catherine Stephens, an activist for the International Union of Sex Workers who has been a sex worker herself for 10 years.
"At a brothel I worked in, I think I was the only one not doing a PhD."

And to reiterate....

'Education is an expensive habit.'

'At a brothel I worked in I think I was the only one not doing a PhD.'

I'm so glad we value post-graduate education in our wonderful country: even in the sciences, which could later on prove to be useful to society in so many ways.

Now we know that these post-grad students can fend for themselves, isn't it about time we made prostitution compulsory for anyone wanting to do a PhD? Even for those folk who have enough money to afford to study without needing to take our taxes?

At a stroke we could remove all those sex-worker immigrants, many of whom don't speak English any better than your average British post-graduate, and we could have the best educated whores in the world: whom, after you had finished buggering them to within an inch of their sanity, you could perhaps discuss the finer points of Empson's ideas of ambiguity; the Higgs boson; or the epidemiology of sexually-transmitted diseases.

Surely that's valuing the expensive habit of education properly? And at a single stroke, we could lessen our banker-incurred debts. I did think of maybe making bankers into whores to pay off the bail-out, but then I realised that no-one not exceedingly perverse, retarded, or in some basic way deficient, would ever pay to have sex with a banker: with those unfortunates, it has to be the other way around.

We are run by immoral Philistines portraying themselves as socially responsible accountants. They have my curse....Unto their graves and beyond.