2009.47: Paying for Sex, Nothing is Really Free
Before we go on this trip, I admit I have never exchanged money for sexual favors. Once, in Italy, partying with the guys in the band, one of them who habitually paid for it wanted to offer me the experience. We went out to the sobering streets of Rome in the middle of the night with the burning trashcans, but none of the ladies in hot pants would have anything to do with us. For them, English speakers were trouble. So much the better, I remained pure.
Nothing is really "free" because everything requires effort of some kind. If you want sex, you have to go out and find it. If you don't wish to exchange money for it, that will take longer and have even deeper ramifications, at least emotionally. If you prefer the more banal explanation, you want that iPhone, they want you to have it, it's a bargain at $200, but the two year marriage clause isn't so hot. Everyone wants the sexy iPhone for $200k but no one wants to marry AT&T. Or, as Albert King used to sing, "Eveybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody want's to die."
So what's this Internet thing about, then? The Internet is like open house at the brothel, enter a site, take what you want. If they ask for an id (such as an email) give them a disposable one. I'm downloading videos daily from Hulu and other video sites. There is software available to record these streams. Oh, I can't access them from outside the USA, though? So I pay for a proxy service to work around that issue. Let's see that's $40 in software and about $3/month for the proxy service. Way ahead of cable, so far, but not free. Especially if I add in the DSL bill which is a minimum of another $40/month for "unlimited" bandwidth.
It's raining now, making me crave sunlight, but as Khalil Gibran once wrote, "Sorrow carves the space in the heart for joy". I must have bought five copies of The Profit to give to young women in the 70's in exchange for some tender moments. Nowadays what do you give as gifts, Seth Godin's book?
Author of The Profit, Gibran was the most famous Lebanese after Danny Thomas in the days when no one knew where Lebanon was. Gibran is the third-best-selling poet in history, after William Shakespeare and Laozi.
