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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
The Hypothesis Is That:
There is a component of the Biological Contract in reproduction that we are not aware of - And it has been screwing us all for years.
The Terms of the Biological Contract are:
Woman will allow Man to plant his seed on the condition that he make a contribution to her survival, and therefore the survival of their potential offspring.
How Has It Screwed Us?:
Our society believes that the contribution can only be in the form of a committed relationship.
The Truth May Be That:
As long as there is a contribution to the survival of the potential mother the Biological contract has been fulfilled. The contribution can be time, effort, money, inclusion in community…. the possibilities of what the contribution can be are varied and personal to the individual, but generally align into 2 categories - Emotional and/or Financial (Tangible)
More Thoughts:
Prostitution, when legal, and when both parts of the agreed upon terms are met, is the purest example of the biological contract being fulfilled. It is the only relationship where the male-female balance of power is 100% equal. Prostitution’s illegality keeps the power overwhelmingly balanced in favor of males, obviously in the prostitute-customer relationship, but also in society as a whole by denying women the right to use the most direct route of Biological Contract fulfillment.
...as anyone who's been financially f^ed over in a "loving" relationship will tell you. Once that happens to you, it's very hard to fault people like Melissa and her friend. Are they happy with their "relationship"? That's more than I can say for most people in a "traditional" relationship, who seem to enjoy spending their time complaining about their s.o., thereby proving to spinsters like me that we've made the right decision.
In the same vein, I've been out on several dates lately where the guy mentioned none-too-subtly the financial bonuses of coupledom: "They can afford this nice house with a pool since they've got two incomes." etc. Is that the new pick-up line now: "Hey, you hot woman with the above-median income for your gender!"? Clearly we are in a bad recession.
The Onion 'Sex for Security Scam' article someone mentioned earlier:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39495
they're having a relationship...of some sort
Including any man or woman that marries for money or status - they simply just have one john.
Has it crossed no-one's mind that this is a complete and utter pile of bullshit? A web site that checks out income tax returns before it refers rich, young, handsome, single dudes to you? Really?
A good looking rich dude willing to pay for your apartment and give you stuff for three freaking months before you bump the uglies? Any guy buying into that kind of relationship is, well, just possibly a tad dysfunctional? Or perhaps a unicorn? (Ah, pretty pretty unicorns!)
It might just be possible (hah) that "Melissa Beech" is posting a fantasy. An extreme fantasy at that. Somehow all the sordidness is washed away, once the client is rich and patient enough (though I would have thought that the two were kinda mutually exclusive).
So go ahead, all you BroadSheet ladies, sign on up. It's on the teh intertubes, it must be true! Handsome rich single dudes will give you tons of cash and wait a long time before doing the dreadful fearful act with you!
If it is true that women are too often viewed as sex objects, it follows that men are seen just as often as money objects. Which is more exploitive? Which is more demeaning?
Even I don't understand this shaming of prostitutes. We all employ different means to survive. Some use their brains, some their looks and some their body. So why is one type considered more than equal to another type. In prostitution a female offers services for money. There is no deceit, no robbery no anything. It is between two consenting adults. Hell even Morally they are not committing a crime because they are not harming anyone. By trying to shame the prostitute for this we women are providing grounds for their exploitation.
jfriesne -
"Is this sort of of parsing really necessary?
Everybody has their own reasons for entering into sexual relationships, and their reasons are their business. Is it necessary for us to sit in judgement of other people's private decisions?"
If Ms. "Beech" wanted her private decisions left private and unjudged, she wouldn't have written about them. She wants a career in broadcast journalism; she knows the power of the news cycle and the associated buzz, and she wanted to grab some of that. Perhaps we shouldn't be helping her, but what can I say? Sex sells.
One has to wonder about her benefactor's reaction to this essay, though, particularly if someone manages to suss out his identity.
I don't have any money, so these /ahem/ "situations" don't arise.
So, this woman applied for a job, but instead of being offered the job for which she'd applied, she was given the chance to prostitute herself?
Remind me again why it's HER behavior rather than HIS that gets us all exercised?
Anyone "raised with class," wasn't.
What's your guess for the MSRP of this Bosch washer dryer set?
to do as she pleases with her body. And if you're going to whore yourself out, then being paid in Louboutins is not a bad deal.
To live on her swiney back
Her Superfly of a fly guy
Always had on hand
A rich supply
of purest suga crack...
I have no particular problem with what this woman is doing. Although I would parse that there IS a difference between selling ones brain power and selling something that entails another person's body part being inside of yours, simply for the sake aof a label on a dress or a trip, etc.
What you describe with the inacantations and a couple of rings, minus anything else, is not just "a marriage on paper", its a "BAD Marriage". I waited until I was 40 to "tie the knot" w/ my wife. And I considered the incantations a formality, as I do the rings. (I don't wear mine because I'm a contractor and it gets lost or damaged when I do wear it.)I consider the incantations just that not because they are meaningless in the sense that because were screwing and taking coed vacations anyway that the words are essentially meaningless and my wife is a prostitute, (or I am because, she's a lawyer who earns thrice what I do), but because I have such a powerful and unique connection with this person that I am connected to her body and soul WITHOUT the words.
There is simply no other person I'd rather share my life with, or, after closing on ten years, my bed, but more so my head and heart.So while your comment may be a true analogy for YOUR view of the meaning(less) of the commitment one makes when they DO utter the words making that promise or set of promises, it is in no real sense true across the board. So just as some would call this woman a prostitute and some may call her "married without the ring", its all based on personal point of view.
But to be blunt, in the perfect moral world or deeper existence that the best of our race strive for within the parameters of a relationship of any type, this set-up, while not completely immoral, and possibly the most honest one can get, is not something to bray about like a proud showhorse exactly because it delineates the shallowest of human behaviors and not the best.
I may understand a woman without wherwithal or education or connections, all, going this route out of neccessity in order to get an education or a roof over her head. Thats simply a mode of survival. But that is not the case here. This is simply a shallow person evincing the shallowest of behaviors for the shallowest of reasons. And I'm sorry if your marriage is so meaningless to you, or if thats what you observed in your familial surroundings. But there ARE people who do aspire to deeper meaning in their lives and marriages,...and DO find that which they seek.
Rather than aggrandizing this woman, it seems to me that she is little more than a lazy, spoiled Bitch. I'm sure she'd make any parent proud.
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