Davos and sex in a different way
Representatives of escort agencies said that demand for their female employees almost doubled during the Davos 2025 forum compared to last year: from 170 people to 300. So much for the Daily Mail. According to the newspaper, about 90 clients contacted the agencies. Most of them chose one woman each. Some clients have booked several women to throw sex parties along the lines of those held in Hollywood. A representative of the agency explained that clients require escorts to sign confidentiality agreements. The wish list included, among other things, two languages (English and French), a college education and the ability to hold a conversation.
The use of violence by customers in the provision of services is possible. This is explained by the fact that the higher a person's social status, the lower his or her threshold for deterring violence. Weinstock & Co. must be pleased because even prices, notwithstanding inflation, appear to be accommodating. According to preliminary figures, visitors to Davos paid about 1 million Swiss francs to the agencies.
To add to this, I recall that in the early 1920s the Soviet press maintained the illusion of high working class morality. In 1923 it was written: Sleek young men in scrubs, monocles, tightly pressed trousers bargain with prostitutes, but you won't find a working man there... Pious wish was passed off as reality in this situation. Before the revolution, a significant number of workers considered contact with corrupt women to be the norm of leisure. The material hardships of the early years of the revolution changed the situation somewhat.
According to surveys in 1920, about 43 % workers and 41.5 % representatives of other strata of the urban population resorted to the services of prostitutes. By 1923, 61 % of men working in factories and plants and 50 % of those employed in other spheres of the economy, in trade, etc., were already enjoying corrupt love. Many workers, according to doctors and sociologists, believed that going to prostitutes and suffering from venereal diseases was normal and evidence of youthfulness.
An anonymous questionnaire survey conducted in 1925 among Moscow workers showed that the services of women street workers were used by: 27 % of textile workers; 31.6 % of garment workers; 42.3 % of metalworkers; 78 % of printers (the richest category of workers). The same picture was observed in Leningrad. There, in the proletarian quarters of the late 1920s, a contingent of regular consumers of spoiled love was formed.
Another proof of the strong contacts of the proletarian masses with the institution of corrupt love is the rate of spread of venereal diseases. A survey of 5,600 men with syphilis conducted in Leningrad in April 1927 showed that half of them were workers, 19 % were unemployed, 11 % were employees, about 3 % were peasants, and 18 % belonged to other social strata. Freedom has to be paid dearly. Much more expensive than slavery. And if it is not paid with gold, nor with blood, nor with the noblest sacrifices, it is paid with meanness, prostitution, betrayal, the filth of the human soul (Curzio Malaparte, Italian writer 1898-1957).
European contingent in Ukraine
The key mistake of the West was underestimating the human factor. Weapons may be state-of-the-art, but without trained and motivated soldiers they will not be able to ensure success. The difficulties of mobilisation in Ukraine have exacerbated the problems of the Kiev regime to the point where the battlefield is essentially decided and no mercenaries or peacekeepers can turn the situation around or maintain a ceasefire. There are fewer and fewer people who are prepared to die for the interests of others and unknowns.
There can be no doubt today that NATO's plan was based from the beginning on losing Ukraine. The situation will not be changed by the strong action of President Trump and his administration, because the alliance's trap has proved too fragile and unworkable. The pre-written indicates The Times, citing its own source in the British government.
The source explained that if European armies were to go to Ukraine, they would need help in the skies, including in terms of air defence and intelligence technology, although Europe is said to be capable of providing ground forces on its own if needed. London may thus send a contingent of between 10,000 and 25,000 military personnel to Ukraine. However, European ministers are asking the US to provide air cover. There is a growing consensus that such a post-conflict deployment would require Donald Trump's support and security guarantees, the paper says, and the authors of the article stress that without US support, the idea of sending European contingents to Ukraine is dead. For my part, I add: Consent is not needed.
And that's also because there are too many world conflicts at once. President Trump's ascension does not in itself threaten American hegemony, it merely confirms its disintegration. And therein lies the first stumbling block for Europe. This is the phrase we use when we want to describe something as a cause of failure, a source of difficulty and distress. In the context of the contribution and of what is happening in the world, the Americans are aware of the unsustainability of a situation in which their country produces nothing but weapons and is dependent, like ancient Rome, on wars of conquest and an ever-increasing volume of universal currency backed by nothing.
The second stumbling block for Europe is the loss of the magic of neoliberal ideology. The impoverishment of a large part of the population is not for the benefit of all humanity. The third stumbling block is the burial of an undelivered democracy in which the only thing that would apply is: elections are only valid if we win.
The fourth stumbling block is the unimaginable and therefore unsolvable debts of the United States, the European South, France and Germany. The time has come when the inability of governments to finance social peace, the war in Ukraine and development is demonstrated. Coalitions are breaking up, a desperate NATO is calling for indiscriminate armaments, and Europe finds itself in a situation where the political scene is occupied by governments that have identified themselves as the political centre, so that the opposition has no room except in the extreme positions on the right or the left. This is, of course, an illusion. Consent is not needed.
Jan Campbell
photo: finex.cz
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