Is hiring a Companion a futuristic version of a Lap Dance?

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Friday, June 25, 2010 16:23
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AURAPTOR

Friday, June 25, 2010 12:21 PM

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
In retrospect, he was probably kidding.

She does have nice red hair and green eyes, though.

I mean, pretty is relative. Like, Felicia Day. She's not a classic beauty, like face structure wise.

But she's Felicia Day, there's something about the way she looks that's refreshing, you know? She has some kind of quality. I'd call her pretty even if she doesn't fit the usual definition.

I was joking! What's the matter with you people? Don't you know a joke when you hear one ?

QUANDOM

Friday, June 25, 2010 1:09 PM

Any one remember "'Sociolaters' from the first version of BSG? How are FF Companions different?

TWO

Friday, June 25, 2010 1:23 PM

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Originally posted by quandom:
Any one remember "'Sociolaters' from the first version of BSG? How are FF Companions different?

The wiki http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Socialator says that Socialators are "are scorned by members of the Otori Sect." Companions are not scorned. There must be huge differences between being a Companion and a Socialator. Firefly never showed or explained why Companions are esteemed. It can't be the fancy clothes and manners because that's too shallow an explanation. I invented some reasons higher in this thread.

If it had lasted another season, I'm thinking that Firefly would have revealed why Companions have high status. You would not need to suspend disbelief forever because Joss Whedon would have eventually shown the reasons. While we were waiting for the big reveal, we just assumed that somebody classy like Morena Baccarin would not go into a career that deserves no respect, like my career at Burger King. (I love BK Whoppers like Inara loves fornication. That's why she & me work where we work.)

Later edit: I'm trying to think like a science fiction writer. Conditions haven't changed that much from the days when Moses brought the ten commandments down from Mt. Sinai, as least as far as sex. What do we have that Moses didn't? Penicillin, reliable paternity tests using DNA, and birth control with side effects. Now imagine a distant future that has many more technological advances that are related to sex. And imagine that Companions created these advances, either directly as researchers or by funding others's research. I think it follows that there would be changes in what is considered sexually moral compared to the days of Moses. I think Companions would be the vanguard promoting these moral changes. Companions might be considered praiseworthy for what they accomplished over centuries. That's my theory about why Companions are held in great esteem.

By the way, we ain't livin' in the 26th century, so don't get too advanced in your sex life. You might be getting ahead of science. There are practical reasons for Abrahamic religious traditions governing sex. Reasons that go beyond 'God Commands You!' and 'The Bible Says!'

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

BYTEMITE

Friday, June 25, 2010 4:19 PM

I pretty much agree, Two, and I'd also add that as a regulated incorporated guild under Alliance law, the Companion Guild has to meet all applicable futuristic discrimination laws re: ageism, lookism, classism, and weightism.

The Companion Guild probably has an extensive scholarship program they award girls of all spectrums of society and appearance, and anyone who completes the required curriculum becomes a certified companion. I don't imagine that curriculum being easy, though, requiring intelligence, education, sensibility, and eventually proof of skill.

QUANDOM

Friday, June 25, 2010 4:23 PM

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Originally posted by piratenews:
Joss likes him some naked starlets. Makes casting calls more fun. That's what a man does.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Nandi was ugly. That's why she was forced to whore on that barren rock of a planet in some forsaken t.v. dinner of a ' house'.

You mean forced to whore in that barren rock of Hollywood.

(...)

Ugly? Unfair! Ungallent! Wie ungallant! Nandi was broke. 'No shame to be poor, but no great honor either'. The Companion Guild has a monopoly on Companions. Like other people who are broke, you drift out to the fringes. The business she built was classic sweat equity.

The first picture you posted is ...sweet and lovely. In presenting the female form, the world has forgotten subtlety, but this photographer remembered. Thank you for posting.

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