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.
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.
In a text only medium you can't tell at all whether people who read what you write laugh.
In this case laughing at speaking about "the Dark Side" is also a simple mechanism to avoid dealing with the substance of the issue. Laughing to avoid dealing with moral questions is not in the spirit of LW.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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