Posts Tagged ‘prostitution’

Not Worth It

July 2nd, 2008

Editors note: this is a weird post, I’m sorry.  Read it with more humor in mind than seriousness.  I’m really not trying to be a jerk, just funny (think Steve Martin)

I think prostitution is abhorable for various reasons, but this article about prostitution being paid for with gasoline cars puts the gas price debate into a weird perspective: Sex for Fuel.  We’ve not found ourselves using more or less gas at this stage in the game simply because we don’t do as much driving as the average household.  I work from my basement most of the time and our gas prices are usually just slightly under the national average.

Now that Bill Gates has stepped down as chief officer of whatever at Microsoft maybe he can put forth some of his humanitarian efforts in some petroleum related way.  I don’t know how that would help alleviate pain and suffering in third world countries, but it would at least reduce first world pain at the pump.

What is a Million Dollars Really Worth?

March 19th, 2008

I had someone hit this site looking for, “Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?”  I can’t believe that people would consider this, but then again, its people we’re talking about: the anonymous mass of Internet users who don’t have to be identified and so asking such a question doesn’t come with the stigma that asking it of your friends and classmates might.  The question that begs is this: What is a million dollars worth?

In our modern relativistic culture there is little value placed on sexuality within marriage, and the sanctity of marriage (sanctity being the setting aside as special) .  Sex is not worth a million dollars, that cheapens it, it is invaluable.  A million dollars is a lot of money, but it isn’t enough money to offset emotional scars, the fact that you’d be engaging in prostitution (see: Eliot Spitzer).

Various people have posed nude in magazines for money, taken jobs that they didn’t agree with because of a high paying salary, and of course there’s the age old televangelist schtick as well.  Money is not important if it is gained in an ill gotten fashion.  Having standards, focusing on the long term impact (how many women did something pornographic and then had children and were mortified that their children would find out?  What about parents finding out?).

A million dollars won’t buy you happiness, love, or a long term financial state (it is just as easily lost on frivolous activities and spending).  What’s a million dollars worth to you?  Is it worth your dignity?