He remembered how Melissa had said to him well one of the things I used to do to combat that boredom was building forts, building like a little cave with the sheets, crawling under it, like a little tent I was inside by myself, setting up housekeeping, just pretending I was somewhere else. It was kind of easy in the dark environment. That's what being a kid is about, pretending. You've got to pretend you're this, pretend you're that, pretend you're a grownup, pretend you're not, pretend you're somebody else. --That's right Melissa, sighed Jimmy to himself sitting on his bed and when you're a grownup you've got to pretend you're with somebody else. What a lot of work and trouble everything is.
Prostitution is a topic that is very interesting to me. Putting a price on something so intimate as love--love being a thing that should be out of the realm of economies as much as eternal is out of the realm of time. Love surely does not operate by any economic law. So prostitution is one of the few places love subjects itself to economics.
As much as prostitution is paying for a physical feeling, it must also be paying for an emotional feeling; nothing can be so close, so physically personally close and not be emotional. If there's any sense you get from Whores for Gloria, it's that prostitution is about much more than paying for sex.
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