>Women have traded sex for things of material value probably since
>the first cave man brought the first gave girl a deer haunch, hoping
>they'd screw.
Other things being equal, butch men and women who can fetch big fat abalones like these <http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/05/09/national/abalone.dig.184.1.jpg>, <http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/05/09/national/09abalone_slide1.jpg>, and <http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/05/09/national/09abalone_slide4.jpg> might get more consideration from their love interests than those who can't.
I mentioned that to my partner, showing the abalone pictures, but I was told that "the water looks cold."
Cf. "Abalone hunters are required by law to free-dive without an artificial breathing apparatus, holding their breath as they plunge into the current to jimmy a camouflaged shell off a rock. To protect the species, the state strictly limits the take. Divers are permitted only three abalone a day and only 24 a year, far more stringent than the limit of 100 four years ago" (Patricia Leigh Brown, "Risking Life, Waistline and Freedom for Abalone," <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/national/10abalone.html?>).
"It is a risky pursuit. Abalone-related drownings average two to five a year in Sonoma County alone, said Sgt. Eric Thompson, director of the county's helicopter rescue unit. On the last Sunday in April, his unit flew in to rescue a 48-year-old diver with chest pains at the foot of a 100-foot cliff. The typical victim, Sergeant Thompson said, is 50-something and overweight and runs into trouble because of overexertion, encountering "sneaker waves," or hyperventilating or panicking in thick kelp. . . . The most shocking death occurred last year, when Randall Fry, a sport-fishing advocate and an experienced diver, was attacked and killed by what was believed to be a great white shark near Fort Bragg, Calif" (Patricia Leigh Brown, "Risking Life, Waistline and Freedom for Abalone," <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/national/10abalone.html?>). -- Yoshie
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