paying for sex
How much do you spend on your pursuit of a good time?
Nookie? It's gonna cost you. But whether that cost is in the form of condoms, taxi rides, or that wonderful social lubricant known as Pabst Blue Ribbon is up to you.
Nerve.com asked nine people to track their sex-related budgets for one month and the results range from 0$ to hundreds of dollars per week.
The costs are what you'd expect: a lot of food, a lot of alcohol, a lot of text messages. An engaged couple surprised us by spending $73.43 on "a longer whip and nipple clamps," while a … Read More
We've got a far more creative idea than "standing by your man."
It's a humdinger all right. After all, our day jobs exist because we know relationships are complicated.
Take this week: Just when you think you've deep-sixed one seriously depraved New York politician, accusations arise that another was not only secretly gay, but, oh by the way, he and his wife were having threesomes with his driver long before he ever came out. (Not that that in itself is necessarily depraved.) Hmm.
Like we said, love rarely resembles a 50's sitcom. And we don't pretend to know what Silda should do with her Eliot, which is … Read More
One woman grapples with finding out she was betrayed when he paid for sex.
I'd had a long day; fresh from a family funeral in Connecticut, I was back in Manhattan. I'd been helping a friend pack, waiting for my boyfriend of six weeks to get home so I could sleep at his place. Finally, we were in his apartment and did what we normally did: have frantic, hot, wonderful sex. Then he fell asleep.
I had work to do so I went quietly into the living room. I was having trouble getting online with my laptop, so I logged into my email account using his. At least, I tried to. When I went … Read More
The guys who buy it aren't who you think. Nor are their reasons for doing so.
According to Dr. Teela Sanders, a senior lecturer at the University of Leeds, and the author of Paying For Pleasure: Men Who Buy Sex, nearly one in three men will buy sex at some point in his life. . . and we're not talking porn. Below, Sanders offers some provocative ideas on why that's the case—and what you need to know about it.
What prompted you to write this book in particular? Generally my area has been in the sex industry—my first book was about studying women working as escorts, looking at how they manage risk, the … Read More
The world's oldest profession makes for some of the world's best stories.
Today's compilation is in honor of (or the opposite of honor) New York's governor Eliot Spitzer. It appears that Mr. Spitzer has found himself in a little hot water in connection to a prostitution ring. What's with powerful, righteous men getting caught up in pay-for-sex scandals? Oh yeah, tradition. Check out five favorite prostitution stories from the past whenever: Man bumps into wife at a brothel A man in Warsaw, Poland made an interesting discovery at a local brothel: his wife. She was there earning some extra money. And … Read More