The triple price of paid sex

Paid sex and the trade · Compiled by this site

ⓘ This story is Buddhist teaching and moral literature, offered as encouragement and warning, not a medical conclusion.

The first price is legal. In Taiwan, under the Social Order Maintenance Act, both parties to a commercial sex act can be penalised, and one arrest follows you. The second is health and family: infections, debt, suspicion and broken trust, none of which a "quick fix" can offset. The third is fortune. In the Jie Yin Zheng Lu, Zhou Boshun lost his future official career with prostitutes; in the Shou Kang Bao Jian, Lin Maoxian refused a neighbour's wife at night and passed the exam the next year. The ancients spoke of rank; today think of career, marriage and children.

Source：International Buddhist Society: Stories About Sexual Abstinence

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