Love For $ale

I have been propositioned by a prostitute.  I posted a personal ad (simply seeking someone to talk to) and have had a myriad of responses, most of which have directed me to different internet porn and/or dating sites.  My most recent response was from a woman who is for hire and marketing her services.

I am looking for a relationship, not just sex.  That said, in a different situation (i.e. not a business arrangement), if I had a social offer of just sex without any possibility of establishing a romantic relationship, I would probably indulge.  There was a time, and not so long ago, when I would have sworn that the answer to such a business proposition would be an unequivocated and affirmative no.  Now, I'm not so sure.  While sex is not ALL I'm looking for, it is part of an adult relationship that I do enjoy deeply.  Do I enjoy it to the point of being willing to pay for it outside the parameters of a commited, romantic relationship?  I dunno...maybe.  Would it fulfill the entirety of the need that has been troubling me since getting my own act together, psychologically?  Absolutely not.  Because it would not fulfill a greater, farther reaching need, I think its not a good idea to accept the offer.  However, when considered on its own merits - to wit:  You want sex.  I want money.  Let's trade. - it seems more worthwhile. 

The morality argument is not gonna work here, either; because, if Judeao-Christian religious morality is the ultimate barometer of right and wrong, than not one of us would be having sex outside of marriage.  Just a guess, here, but I'll bet not one of us (at least among my fb friends) haven't done so.  So, then it becomes an issue of the sexual mores of society.  That never much concerned me, anyway.  I have always had a good number of people in my social circle who do things a little differently from what some good, church goin' folk might expect.  I definitely do things differently.  The possibility that we will all end up in the same Heaven scares the hell outta the good, church goin' folk.

The point here, I guess, is never assume your response to a hypothetically presented situation to be iron-clad when facing that same situation in reality.  I am going to wait for my real, loving, soul mate and life partner to come along; but, I cannot by any means claim society's moral high ground on the other issue.  I think fewer would be able to than the number who think they could.

"I Want Your Sex", George Michael.