I notice a lack of humor among LessWrong posters. When I talked to a friend about completing my journey to the Dark Side via prostitute, he laughed at the joke.

I don't anticipate feeling guilty afterwards. Pissed off, perhaps, because I couldn't make this happen organically in my teens and early 20's with young women I knew in high school or college.

The existence of prostitution puzzles me, because it looks like a dysfunction of human sexuality in agricultural societies. I gather that in some agricultural societies, many men have their first sexual experiences with prostitutes as a rite of passage.

Yet I haven't heard of any hunter-gatherer societies with prostitutes, though I would appreciate references to documented examples if you know of any. If you look to the paleolithic hunter-gatherer as the baseline for human welfare, as in paleonutrition, then a postulated "paleo-sexuality" wouldn't seem to allow for prostitution.