Yes, imagine very deeply what it would be like if colleges had women majoring in sex work…… Picture it in your head…..
Hopefully the fact that actually doing sex work is a better way of learning it is what would prevent colleges from doing that, unless the government somehow required all prostitutes to get a $200,000 degree at a top university in order to get a job. (I guess if freelance prostitutes were banned and they could only work for large corporations that could theoretically happen, if respectability for brothels were really important and the demand were strangled somehow?)
If sex work were fully legalized you’d totally see some kind of Juilliard for Courtesans but the graduates would make eight figures so who cares
You might see some sort of lower-key credentialist gatekeeping as the industry professionalized, like with cosmetology, but I can’t imagine it’d go too far given how entrenched sex work is as DIY employment. I could see that happening for prodommes and other sorts of “complex/risky” sex work, though, like after a scandal hits the news about someone who gave a handjob wrong and made someone’s dick explode
Reblog to give somebody a handjob so bad their dick explodes
Also:
First off there are too coal mining majors, they’re things like “Mining Technology” and “Mineral Engineering”, you find them in Tech and A&M schools and community colleges in mining areas. Like the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.
Second off, I’m not sure if OP’s point is “Imagine a college for prostitutes, that’s hot” or “Imagine not realizing how many college girls today are experiencing their college years as an intro to sex work already, that’s naive”, I could see it either way.
But like the idea of post-secondary education to make women more appealing semi-mercenary mates… that’s a real thing! That’s finishing/charm school! (Which was about social mobility, landing a higher-ranking man, either in the sense of comfortable bourgeois or literal European nobility)
The “Mrs. degree”, college as a place to become a bougie wife. Cornell has a college, “Human Ecology”, that used to be “Home Ec” and still has majors in cooking, sewing, childraising, and interior decoration (plus a pre-law/business track as a backdoor for Long Island boys to get an Ivy degree and become donors)
The mainline Protestant churches addressed the romantic drift of “spouse as soulmate” away from “practical partner in household institution” in the 20th century by introducing mandatory classes in their affiliated colleges to teach the students to fuck each other better.
Not as transparently and been professionalized since then but that’s part of what secretarial/stewardess/nursing school was about at midcentury.
The “Mrs. degree”, about college as a place to find a bougie man and be acculturated as a bougie wife, that was a real thing. Cornell has a college called “Human Ecology” that used to be Home Ec and still basically has majors in cooking, sewing, childraising, and interior decoration (plus a pre-law/business track as a backdoor for Long Island boys to get an Ivy degree, to give it a donor base).
Like, in the 20th century the mainline Protestant churches tried to deal with the romantic drift of “spouse as soulmate” from “spouse as partner in household as institution” by introducing mandatory classes in their colleges to teach the students how to fuck each other better.
