[lbo-talk] AFP: "Economists find no link between sex, money"

Dwayne Monroe idoru345 at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 11 10:46:32 PDT 2004


Chris Doss:

God knows this isn't my experience. Try getting laid with no money. Ha!

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Curtiss Leung replied:

Know what you mean. OTOH, maybe $$ is a necessary, but not sufficient

condition for getting some; lacking $$ guarantees you won't get laid, but having

$$ does not guarantee you will

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And there's that other factor, which makes money a non-issue: charisma, charm and that certain something.

For example, an old friend of mine has spent more or less the past 6 years being broke. Well, there was that year he had half a million in the bank, the result of some intriguing work in Los Angeles (a Raymond Chandler-esque interlude I should write a book about someday), but other than that quickly dissipated capital his pockets stay in a state of perpetual emptiness and longing.

And yet, and yet…

There he is, dating a dazzling variety of women – from university professors to surgically enhanced pr0nsters (this isn’t an exaggeration). Does the phone ever stop ringing? No. Can he walk into a place, cashless and unknown, and leave with several numbers? Yup.

This, my friends is a talent, like being a savant in advanced mathematics or dance. As Morrissey sung years ago, ‘we hate it when our friends are more successful’ and so it was for me, years ago, until I learned to stop being a hater and start being a student.

Still, there’s only so much education can do without native talent and while I did all right I needed to have dollars on hand for entertainment expenses – unlike my gifted comrade.

.d.



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