marrying someone based on money, or social status.

[Whitney]

^ lol

[En_Route]

Wealth and status are vulnerable to the vagaries of this apocalyptic age. Wiser to base your affections on something more enduring like an elegant bone structure or a talent for mimicry.

[Ali]

Wealth and status are vulnerable to the vagaries of this apocalyptic age. Wiser to base your affections on something more enduring like an elegant bone structure or a talent for mimicry.

*snerk*

So my grandma used to say "The hardest way to earn money is to marry for it."  And I agree with her - I can't imagine having to spend a ton of time with someone who I don't enjoy, doesn't make me laugh, am not attracted to, et cetera.  They're printing money every day - may as well do something less objectionable to get it.

But, like the rest of you, I really don't care why anyone else decides to get married, as long as all parties know what they are getting into.

On the same token, I find it totally bizarre that prostitution is illegal.  It's legal to have sex, so what's the deal with the government trying to rule on your motives behind having sex?  As an adult, I can sleep with any other consenting adult for a whole host of bad reasons.  Maybe I have a low self esteem.  Maybe I'm hoping sleeping with him will make me more popular.  Maybe I'm just doing it to get back at my boyfriend.  None of those are particularly noble reasons to "give yourself" to someone else.  But who gives a shit, it's our bodies, we should be able to do pretty much what we want with them.  Why is money a worse motivator than others?

[Sweetdeath]

I think marriage as a whole is utterly absurd and completely outdated.
Though, if two living human beings wish to tie the knot, I could care less WHAT the reasons. As long as both parties are consentual.

[En_Route]

"Bad reasons for sleeping with people" would make a fascinating and educational thread. To your already impressive list I would add :Trying to dispel those insidious rumours about your sexuality; Boredom; An excuse for getting out of having to visit Ikea; Weight Loss.

[Ali]

"Bad reasons for sleeping with people" would make a fascinating and educational thread. To your already impressive list I would add :Trying to dispel those insidious rumours about your sexuality; Boredom; An excuse for getting out of having to visit Ikea; Weight Loss.

Is it bad that I think going to Ikea and having sex are about equally fun?  In fairness to me, I freaking love Ikea.

[Crow]

"Bad reasons for sleeping with people" would make a fascinating and educational thread. To your already impressive list I would add :Trying to dispel those insidious rumours about your sexuality; Boredom; An excuse for getting out of having to visit Ikea; Weight Loss.

I thought those were a pretty good reasons for having sex.

Is it bad that I think going to Ikea and having sex are about equally fun?  In fairness to me, I freaking love Ikea.

LOL I can understand that but maybe replace Ikea with Vitra showroom/paper mills/fabric mills for me though.

[En_Route]

"Bad reasons for sleeping with people" would make a fascinating and educational thread. To your already impressive list I would add :Trying to dispel those insidious rumours about your sexuality; Boredom; An excuse for getting out of having to visit Ikea; Weight Loss.

Is it bad that I think going to Ikea and having sex are about equally fun?  In fairness to me, I freaking love Ikea.

If everyone was like you, we'd have evolved into flatpacks.

[Sandra Craft]

On the same token, I find it totally bizarre that prostitution is illegal.  It's legal to have sex, so what's the deal with the government trying to rule on your motives behind having sex? 

Because non-marital sex is sinful!  Sinful, sinful, sinful!  And people should not be allowed to make a profit off sin, unless we can tax it.  Of course, if prostitution were legal, then we could tax it . . . hmmm.

[Ali]

"Bad reasons for sleeping with people" would make a fascinating and educational thread. To your already impressive list I would add :Trying to dispel those insidious rumours about your sexuality; Boredom; An excuse for getting out of having to visit Ikea; Weight Loss.

Is it bad that I think going to Ikea and having sex are about equally fun?  In fairness to me, I freaking love Ikea.

If everyone was like you, we'd have evolved into flatpacks.

It's like you've found a way to combine Ikea and sex.  It's.....it's......brilliant.

[Mocha Chief]

I personally don't like the idea that some people will marry others due to their wealth or social status. But if both parties are indeed happy and know the situation for each other, then I see no problem in it

[Asmodean]

I personally don't like the idea that some people will marry others due to their wealth or social status. But if both parties are indeed happy and know the situation for each other, then I see no problem in it

A young and pretty A marries and old and shriveled B for money. The old and shriveled B marries the young and pretty A for sex. New sex. Something wrong with that, The Asmo sees not, except of course they could have just skippd the middleman, so to speak, and have sex-for-coin kind of arrangement.

[Too Few Lions]

On the same token, I find it totally bizarre that prostitution is illegal.  It's legal to have sex, so what's the deal with the government trying to rule on your motives behind having sex? 

Because non-marital sex is sinful!  Sinful, sinful, sinful!  And people should not be allowed to make a profit off sin, unless we can tax it.  Of course, if prostitution were legal, then we could tax it . . . hmmm.

I think you've hit the nail on the head BCE. I think many in the west have plenty of hang-ups about sex, one of the many bad consequences of 1500 years of Christian indoctrination. Still, I guess we're a lot more liberated and open than people living under the yoke of Islam.

[Ali]

I personally don't like the idea that some people will marry others due to their wealth or social status. But if both parties are indeed happy and know the situation for each other, then I see no problem in it

A young and pretty A marries and old and shriveled B for money. The old and shriveled B marries the young and pretty A for sex. New sex. Something wrong with that, The Asmo sees not, except of course they could have just skippd the middleman, so to speak, and have sex-for-coin kind of arrangement.

I will amend my grandmother's saying to say "The hardest way to get sex is to marry for it."  Seriously, anyone who would marry for the sex has obviously never been married.   

[En_Route]

It's like you've found a way to combine Ikea and sex.  

The last time I tried to do that, I was escorted from the premises.