If they had short hair, I called them soldiers. If they looked like they were in the US, I called them cops. Oftentimes, you couldn’t tell where they were and you couldn’t see their hair, so yeah.

Michel Houellebecq can be reached via email at houelle@magic.fr

I’m afraid I can’t find any contact info for Chester Brown.

Three names of honourable men come to my mind immediately who speak publicly and positively about sexworkers.
My international short list of “real men” he he …

1.) Mr Karl Lagerfeld, famous Fashion Designer, not only admits hiring escorts but he admires escorts and pornstars. check out this http://voices.washingtonpost.com/celebritology/2010/03/karl_lagerfeld_on_the_superior.html

2.) Michel Houellebecq, french novelist and author of “Platforme” and his latest work “The Map and the Territory” for which he won the most important french award in literature, the Prix Goncourt, states in a dozen of interviews that he love prostitutes and also play an essential role in his books i.e. http://biblioklept.org/2012/03/06/michel-houellebeq-i-still-havent-made-up-my-mind-whether-sex-is-good-or-not/

3.) Last not least Mr Chester Brown who give attention to his punting career in his latest comic strip “PAYING FOR IT – Memoir About Being a John”. I much value very highly the appendix of his book on sex worker rights issues, his strongly held positions on sex work, the demand for decriminalization and his criticism of Sheila Jeffreys arguments, feminist and abolitionist, who denies free choice doing sexwork.
more here http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/books/paying-for-it-is-chester-browns-memoir-of-prostitutes.html?pagewanted=all

In Germany there is just one interesting guy from Berlin and escort lover, Rolf Eden, entrepreneur with impressing bio, who always speaks in favour of his hobby. He is the last playboy in Germany. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Eden

ariane

Having said that, my two best friends are women, one my (now ex-)personal assistant, who is married to someone else, the other was someone I met when she was in the sex industry, but now owns her own business and is a single mother.

I’m not in the US but I worked in a multinational US corporation for a long time, and I never hid the fact that I support the decriminalisation of prostitution everywhere, and patronised prostitutes as often as finances allowed, despite being in senior management.

It goes without saying that the “average” woman will be inclined to oppose prostitution, because they (the prostitutes) are the competition. If men just wait for permission from the women in their lives before they support prostitutes’ rights, then it will never happen. This is not a criticism, merely a fact.

Perhaps the first step is to try to convince those wives, mothers, etc, that prostitutes are normal women too and that anything that strengthens the rights of prostitutes strengthens the rights of all women (and men).