Philosophy of Prostitution

by Nicola Daugava

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[Sami · Rating 1 out of 5]

I literally could not finish this book, maybe for the first time ever, which was so disappointing because I loved the premise. According to the summary, this was supposed to be a book that explored the history of prostitution, the people engaged in the commerce of sex, and the significance of its being such a taboo. Instead, the book was a rambling treatise on one man's under-researched understanding of how prostitution works and why women might pursue it. I was incredibly disappointed by the utter lack of historical and academic references and distracted by the author's reliance on sci-fi analogies that he failed to explain. Furthermore, despite the author's disclaimer in the prologue that English is not his first language and my efforts to forgive errors, I was really frustrated by the multitude of sentences that just did not make sense. I appreciate the difficulty of writing in a non-native language, but this book really needed an editor.

Admittedly, I had to stop reading the book about a quarter of the way through when the author made a claim that women cannot achieve the same depth of analysis in science and poetry as men can, so it's possible that some of my concerns might have been resolved later in the book, but it just wasn't worth it to continue at that point.

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Release Date: 12 March 2020