Wednesday, April 05, 2006
RENT FOR SEX
Ads at Craigslist:
In Atlanta, an online ad offers a room in exchange for "sex and light office duty." In Los Angeles, a one-bedroom pool house is free "to a girl that is skilled and willing." And in New York City, a $700-a-month room is available at a discount to a fit female willing to provide sex.
On the widely used Web site Craigslist.org, some landlords and apartment dwellers looking for roommates are offering to accept sex in lieu of rent.
"They have to be attractive. I don't let just anybody come into my house," said Mike, a man who answered the phone at the New York City listing but declined to give his last name -- and refused to say whether he has, in fact, collected the rent under the sheets.
The offering of shelter for sex is older than, well, real estate itself.
But the online come-ons are franker than anything you might see in the newspaper classifieds, because they are not edited by Craigslist, and perhaps also because the anonymity of the Internet often causes people to shed their inhibitions.
Trading housing for sex is a form of prostitution. But the police aren't kicking down doors.
This is where liberalism leads. Once in exchange for sex a woman received the promise "Till death do us part." Now she gets a room, and presumably when she starts to age or gains too much weight, or has a headache, she gets evicted.
This is what American male culture has devolved to. What happened to real manhood? It seems to be in short supply in the priesthood, and apparently out of the priesthood as well.
Chastity looks more noble every day!
