An accountant friend of mine once suggested it is easier just to pay for sex and get it over with. Most guys will go out to a club, maybe pay a cover charge, buy drinks for himself and possibly several women, and he still has no guarantee of a sexual encounter, much less dating any of the women he meets, and much less developing a long term relationship (because most men are not looking for those anyway). So it was amusing to find this article below…
John Moore on sex: Prostitutes beat dating
An actor friend of mine once told me he was asked to perform oral sex on a director to secure a supporting role in a movie. “Did you do it?” I asked. “Sure why not,” he responded, “I do it for free– why wouldn’t I do it for $50,000?”
Just another unseemly Hollywood anecdote to some. But to those of us inclined to see the world through an economic lens, in financial instruments, it has its amateur and professional traders.
We know sex has intrinsic value because it is universally coveted (although more by men than by women). We fail to identify the transactional nature of everyday coupling only because of the ineffable and unquantifiable nature of the major currencies: youth, power and beauty. Those who have these qualities in abundance have little trouble obtaining gratification. If you lack in all of these areas, you can either do without, work exceedingly hard (begging, serial dating) or use the most commonly accepted currency there is, money.





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