Michael Hurst
2 min readSep 5, 2021

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That is admirable, I try to apply those principles in my own life as well. Yet your treatise does judge men on their personal moralities.

For example, you castigate married men who come to these clubs and then lie to their wives, and the excuses they make for the lies. I remember going to a few clubs when I was young, and I lied to my wife about it - because it made no difference in our relationship, yet if she knew it would have hurt her, unnecessarily. And for perspective, I have never once cheated on any wife or girlfriend in my life. Yet the men who go there and lie to their wives are bad, but the women who work there and lie to their customers are good. There is a disconnect there.

Think of this as a chicken and egg problem. Men would not be sitting there ogling naked women and acting like fools if there weren't women up there offering their naked bodies as products for their entertainment and acting like temptresses.

It is true that men do not understand women. But it is just as true that women don't understand men. But men don't pretend that they do, while women are full of judgments and opprobrium and advice for men and there is no lack of articles about, for, and to men "womansplaining" reasons for their bad behavior and how they need to change.

I tend to agree with much of what you have written. I have known several dancers personally quite well, and they are fine women, actually just normal people in their every day lives. They are living according to principles that Camille Paglia would approve of. But if you got to know the men that go to the clubs, you'd likely find the same thing. It goes both ways. Chicken and egg.

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Michael Hurst
Michael Hurst

Written by Michael Hurst

Economist and public policy analyst, cyclist and paddler, and incorrigible old coot.

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