Parlour Anecdote #3
(A prostitute and a client are standing in the room of a brothel facing one another. The client is
wearing a pair of boxer shorts and has his hands cupped over his pubic area. The prostitute is
fully dressed.)
SHE: Are you getting undressed then?
HE: I’m embarrassed. (His voice is upper class and he is stuttering.)
SHE: Why? What’s wrong with you?
HE: What…what we’re doing…what we’re doing - it’s immoral.
SHE: Immoral! Listen mate, I’ll tell you about morality. Killing innocent citizens
for oil, is that moral? Is food speculation moral? Are bankers
gambling trillions when folk are homeless moral? Is studying the psyche in order to
create subliminal advertising to trick folk into buying shoddy merchandise moral?
What we’re about to do, babe, is probably the most innocent thing you’ll ever do,
now…
HE: (Looks shocked.) Well…well when you put it like that.
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