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04/09/09
Sex in exchange for goods/services seems to be an ever-present thing.
What disturbs me(not necessarily surprises me) is the gender disparity. If middle-aged women were as common as men (or vice-versa) in these relationships maybe I wouldn't find them as distasteful.
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Should have cheery disposition, will support you in costuming business. PR / media-relations skills a requirement. Must fit into rabbit suit and policeman mask, preferably simultaneously.
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I mean, I've had really fucked up relationships for really bad reasons- I'd be hard pressed to say that the relationships described in the article are somehow "worse" than some of the shit I've been involved in.
And I really don't want people judging the foundations of my relationships, much less writing NYT articles about it.
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I'd never had a relationship like that, and I'd never heard anyone speak openly about it, either -- not in those terms, anyway. But when I started reading articles about it a few years ago, I found it intriguing to know that that was an option my peers and I had. I might never have thought about that issue otherwise. Same here.
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I feel disgusting for having said that, but I know that I sometimes fall prey to it. Reading about women who have their education paid for/pay for their own, or have fantastic cars and vacations and things because they earned it (or came by it "honestly") makes me jealous, but not in an unhealthy way. It makes me feel worse about my own very minor successes, though, because why can't I have what they have?
Reading about women who had to sleep with someone to get all of the above things causes that sick should-be-silenced little voice to say, hmph! They didn't deserve all that.
I think in times when many many people are struggling, reading about excesses feeds a certain desire for schadenfreude.
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That's why. Its called repression. Like the lies about sex abuse at day care centers when women were putting their kids there to go to work. Its just so darn hard to deal with us when we are free to be!!
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This is being marketed as something you can hide from your wife.
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