In his teens and early twenties, Johnson had several impersonal encounters with women for hire without any desire or satisfaction being generated. But later, after reading Walt Whitman and Henry Miller, he began regarding prostitutes as people with personalities and problems like everyone else. He’d always avoided viewing them as such—perhaps stemming from an incident where he paid more than the price agreed to, including all the money in his wallet. One feels no guilt or hypocrisy making an everyday purchase while failing to contemplate the cashier’s personhood still, with prostitutes it differs—or so he’d come to believe.
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