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Mike Miller wrote:
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Christian M. Cepel wrote:
The different prostitutes at the agency had different prices with a
range of something like $1000/hr to $5500/hr. I think Spitzer was
caught with one who charged $3000/hr and he paid her $4300 which might
have included travel and tip or maybe he spent 1 hr 20 mins with her.
The contracted time I've heard was 4 hours and all sorts of different
dollar figures. This time of course.. there were others.
If you think about it, probably the major reason why men have evolved
to strive for power is that having power gave access to females, but
today a powerful man is expected to have sex only with his 50-year-old
wife or not at all. No wonder that they "slip up" and fall into
extra-marital affairs or prostitution. I don't see it as hard to
explain.
Oh for goodness sakes. This old argument again. You know there are
billions of men across millenniums who managed to be faithful. I'm
sure they were all powerless undersexed men... or perhaps they just felt
that their marriage vows were just that. Vows. People did and do have
honor... an internal drive to make their word as concrete as though it
was exactly that.... concrete.. or something even more immutable.
The thing that is hard to explain is why we have developed a culture
that stops powerful men from having multiple sex partners. Why is
that? It doesn't work that way in a lot of other places, like Saudi
Arabia -- Osama Bin Laden was one of something like 51 children of his
father.
We developed it? Last I heard there's a long history of powerful men
who weren't so weak as to succumb to their own "overpowering" sexual
urges despite having given their oath not to. I mean wow. If you're
powerful and cannot be monogamous, you're practically a victim.
There's also a long history of men _not_ honoring their word or not
living in cultures that prompt them to make this promise. There's a
long history of cultures where this 'promise' is mean to be word
only.... thus a lot of criticism by our European neighbors. There's
nothing new under the sun and these arguments of 'today' are utter
nonsense.
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Christian M. Cepel - Thistledowne Productions - http://thistledowne.org
Computer Support Specialist, Sr. - University of Missouri - Columbia
College of Education - School of Info Science & Learning Technologies
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