Teairra, Kat, and Nicki: Triad of the 2010 Prostitute.

Prostitutes aren't just the women popping bubble gum in their leather minidresses and red fishnet stockings, setting their sights on men "looking for a good time" anymore. The profession seems to have upgraded from 'school pictures' to 'Glamour Shots,' a backwards ode to feminism and the almighty power of female sexuality. It's the 2010 Pretty Woman, minus Julia Roberts. Who needs a job or an education, when your sponsor 'goes and ba-ba-buy-buys' everything you want and need?

Teairra Mari pretty much disappeared after "Girl Fight." Wait, that was Brooke Valentine. "Do It To It"? "Promise Ring"? Errr...Teairra Mari was pretty much unimportant for a couple of years, until she burst back on the scene with a sponsor. A sponsor is apparently a man who indulges his 'sponsee' in the finer things in life - mani/pedi, cocktails, a full tank of $2.95/gallon gas in a ride he probably pays the car note for, etc. All in exchange for, presumably, pussy. Now, let's take it to the fundamentals - a prostitute is defined as "a person, typically a woman, who engages in sexual activity for payment." Isn't prostitution illegal, Teairra?

It's an epidemic. Kat Stacks, notorious video ho (something along the lines of a seemingly uneducated Superhead in the making), has made a name for herself through blogging about her sexual encounters with various 'important' people in the music industry. Grammatically retarded and shamefully entertaining, her website truly reveals the mindset of a modern-day prostitute - in the words of Nicki Minaj, "never let a D-boy boink for free." She had sex with wayside-fallen pop star Aaron Carter, and admits she didn't really want to -- and wrote about it. She broke T-Pain off for $900 plus tip. Is this the future of female 'sexual independence -- underhandedly depending on a man's wanton desire for vagina in order to get paid? Don't women have any talents that don't involve fellating someone more successful than her? What is the justification - might as well get paid for something you're going to do anyway?

Women like Teairra Mari and Nicki Minaj, who have the potential power to spread a positive message to young girls (does promoting a 'Barbie' image count? Anyone?), fail horribly by feeding into the stereotypes of a patriarchal society and promoting inadvertent prostitution. Women have the ability to tote power that doesn't stream directly from their crotch. Sex should never have a monetary value -- in that case, self-worth and confidence wave a permanent goodbye. If a D-boy can't boink for free, then maybe he shouldn't be boinking at all.