Mme. Armfedlt, in Sondheim's A Little Night Music calls sex "a pleasurable means to a measurable end" (Liasons), and decries people's foolishness in falling in love (then "the nets descend.")
"Diamonds are a girl's best friend." (Leo Robin and Jule Styne, there is a nice version by Marilyn Monroe, who can't really sing, but sort of slinks it):
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental but diamonds are a girl's best friend. A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rental on your humble flat, or help you at the automat. Men grow cold as girls grow old and we all lose our charms in the end. But square-cut or pear-shaped these rocks don't lose their shape Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Or as Cole Porter, the crown prince of cynicism, put it,
If a custom tailored vet Asks me out for something wet When the vet begins to pet--i cry hooray.
But I’m always true to you, darlin’, in my fashion Yes, I’m always true to you, darlin’, in my way.
I’ve been asked to have a meal By a big tycoon in steel, If the meal includes a deal, accept I may.
But I’m always true to you, darlin’, in my fashion Yes, I’m always true to you, darlin’, in my way.
There’s an oil man known as Tex Who is keen to give me checks. And his checks, I fear, means that Tex is here to stay.
But I’m always true to you, darlin’, in my fashion Yes, I’m always true to you, darlin’, in my way.
>From ohio Mister Thorn
Calls me up from night till morn
Mister Thorn once cornered corn and that ain’t hay
But I’m always true to you, darlin’, in my fashion Yes, I’m always true to you, darlin’, in my way.
>From milwaukee mister fritz
Often dines me at the ritz
Mister fritz invented Schlitz and Schlitz must pay
But I’m always true to you, darlin’, in my fashion Yes, I’m always true to you, darlin’, in my way.
Mister Harris, plutocrat, wants to give my cheek a pat If the Harris pat means a paris hat, pay, pay!
But I’m always true to you, darlin’, in my fashion Yes, I’m always true to you, darlin’, in my way.
Prostitution? Or practicality?
(Pardon me for relying on my standard resources of show tunes and Tin Pan Alley:)
jks
--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Yeah, I've heard of it, but it wouldn't occur to me
> to call it
> prostitution, volunteer or otherwise.
>
> I guess my mother would call it "sluttish." I would
> just call it someone
> wanting to have sex. Presumably, there would be some
> choice about
> partners, or we would all call it obsessive, but
> still not prostitution.
>
> Joanna
>
> Wendy Lyon wrote:
>
> >On 5/6/05, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I have not yet heard of a volunteer prostitute.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Erm, wouldn't a "volunteer prostitute" just be
> someone who willingly
> >has sex with a lot of people just for the sake of
> having sex? You
> >surely have heard of that.
> >
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