Why was he so obsessed with prostitutes?
>>25410595Prostitutes are sought for base human pleasure and accidentally give love, they are quintessentially dostoevskian.
Because sex is fun and most people want it.
>>25410608>Because sex is funNo, plus it's a lot of work.
>>25410607>and accidentally give loveDon't give me hope like that.
>>25410607I didn’t get it
>>25410595>sinning their way to Jesus
>>25410595we are all sinners. something about not throwing rocks at whores.
>>25410595Raskolnikov explains it in Crime and Punishment when he says him and Sonya are the same
>>25410657I hate this facetious take. Women weren't quitting school and careers to girlboss it on the streets. Girls and women with no education, no prospects to marry, etc., were legitimately forced into this.Ask yourself why a character like Sonya, who is doing it to support her family, might find solace in forgiveness and the promise of heaven?Dosto was fascinated with the extremes that were brought to Christ: murderers, prostitutes, etc., because a) it was something that genuinely happened, and b) it exemplifies Jesus's teachings and c) it has actual narrativistic content.Do you think a goodie two-shoes woman would in anyway entertain Raskolnikov, or in anyway have the scriptures at the forefront of their mind? No, if she was a well-to-do girl she wouldn't cross his path, and she would also assume her place in heaven was a given like all the middle class characters, and quibble about other nonsense. Dosto has characters like that but you don't even remember them.
was he? off the top of my head i can only only think of two stories of his that feature prostitutes prominently
>>25410612People don't want to hear this but it's like anything. If you want to do it right, you need to put in the work. But I mean *my* orgasm is right there, so why bother doing the work?
>>25410595He had no other female contact. He was a quintessential incel and seethed endlessly.
>>25410869He was married and had four children
Ah, to cum on a whore's tits.
>>25410789OnlyFans subverts all this by making sex workers rich
>>25410864It's not true. Let me tell you a sad story: I have a mutation in my cock which makes it rock hard and last forever. I can lift considerable weighs by twitching. I feel everything, but I only cum by fucking in a specific way in the mating press position, so I can hammer a pussy with abandon like an animal virtually forever. I always made the girls cum at least 4 times before I got bored and consciously decided to change her position and finish. With this cock, I am always and inexorably in charge. It's a huge cock which made legs numb and jaws sore. On a more adventurous man, such a phenomenal cock would've by might and right busted through the world of porn like a phallic Gorn. This is by far the best part of me, as if God decided to put all the premium clay there, but fucked up all the rest, especially my brain, which isn't nearly as well liked by women as my cock. And therefore God hated me for the rest of my life, for being autistic and wasting this piece of equipment. It's seen so little use for what it's worth it's almost criminal.
>>25410607>accidentally give loveNo they dont. Trying to be somewhat seductive is part of their job, but I get that some autists like Dostoyevski would intepret that as a hint of love
>>25410828People don't actually read Dostoyevsky, they read Nabokov's review of Dostoyevsky and then speak authoritatively about Dostoyevsky's writing. Common problem really.
>>25411461he was pretty obsessed with whores IRL>LOOOORD FORGIVE ME FOR I'M PLOWING A HARLOT AGAIN, IT WILL FEEL GOOD TO REPENT AFTER I'M DONE, BUT FROWN UPON ME AS I FORNICATE MY LOOOORD, GAZE JUDGMENTALLY UPON THE BLACK EYE I GAVE THIS UNFORTUNATE GIRL, THIS WHORE YOU PLACED UPON MY PATH SO I COULD FAIL YOU AGAIN, LOOOORD, CAUSE I'M A SINNER, A DIRTY KINKY SINNER PLEASE FORGIVE ME *PLAP PLAP PLAP*
>>25410719That passage is actually a forgery inserted (probably by a hooker) into the Gospel of John. The oldest manuscripts don't contain it.
>>25410595Because a prostitute is someone who loves you no matter who you are or what you look like
I'll probably die a virgin since I don't have the know how to avoid getting arrested for solicitation.
>>25412315Go to Nevada. There are like 14 legal brothels across the state.
>>25410595He was a pedophile
In addition to what >>25410789 said, it was a common element of life at the bottom of social the ladder, with which his Petersburg materials were primarily concerned since it was a dirty city with lots of poor folk (see other Petersburg writers, e.g. Gogol's Nevsky Prospect, and Blok's later work). It's like asking why Dickens was obsessed with orphans or child labourers, or why Tolstoy always wrote about peasants.It was also just an inheritance from the Romantic / Victorian tradition. Dickens and Schiller are prominent precursors to his work, inspirations of his, and prostitutes, "kept women", or the idea / metaphor of prostitution are common in their works, so combined with the materials in the canonical Gospels of course they're going to figure in.
>>25410595Tolstoy has a whole doorstopper of a novel about a prostitute. I think prostitutes were just a big part of Russian life then.
I'm struggling with Dostoyevski's Russian Messianism. I understand that it was within a paradigm of Russo-Turkish wars, but it generally seems to be a very non-Christian position to have- whatever "New-Age" thought would have been in the 19th century.
>>25411182onlyfans obviates the fact that women are prone to whoring out merely for the love of the gameit doesn't actually make many of them rich, afaik for an overwhelming percentage of hos the pay's pretty low
>>25410595You can pay the women to leave after sex anon. It's self explanatory.
>>25410595He was a prostitutemaxxer
Mary Magdalene
>>25412798I read a statistic some 10 years ago that 30% of college age girls did cam work or straight up prostituted themselves at least once, to pay for luxury goods/lifestyleThat was before onlyfans. Now little girls want to be camwhores. All because we didn't get rid of the jews.
>>25412837what a stupid post. worst post on 4chan in 2026
>>25414356It's depressing to think that the only reason I'll never get laid is because whores found another outlet for their degeneracy.
>>25412656Prostitutes were a big part of life in general prior to the emancipation of women and outside of post-reformation moralism
>>25410789Notice its always women not involved or needing to resort to prostitution saying sex work is real work
>>25412287probably by you
>>25410595All women are prostitutes. A woman who has sex with you for $100 is a lot cheaper than woman who has sex with you while you pay a mortgage for a house she lives in.
>>25414527came here to say this. it's all a transaction even before a first kiss. prostitutes are just at the extreme end of the scale, and are more upfront about it.
>>25410595lol prolly cuz prostitutes
nigga was a liberal alright, maybe something along the line of "they deserve goodness tooo!!!"
>>25410595dostoslop was the proto muh lady neckbeard
>>25414394Holy fuck what a quote>>25414527>>25414537At least before this age you could count on regular women to be chaste, but now that they sucked 100000 cocks before they met you and the majority of men are OK with committing to used up cumrags there's no difference at all. You either stick your dick in a whore's cunt or you stay celibate and die alone. I fucking hate it. I could've had a decent women in another time but I'm not dating a public toilet
