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    There's an interesting article in today's Los Angeles Times which measures the value of sex and money in a persons happiness.

    Basically, it says that increasing one's sexual encounters from once a month (sadly a fact for many married folks) to once a week can bring as much happiness as a $50k raise.

    So gals, now you realize you should all be millionaires for the value you bring to all our lives.

    Hope this raises some spirits.

    Here's the lead-in to the story followed by the link (don't know how long the link will last).

    Happy? Let's Sum It Up

    Researchers tap the `dismal science' of economics to quantify well-being. It isn't money that leaves you feeling like a million.
    By Stuart Silverstein, Times Staff Writer
    July 3, 2006

    Midway into his career as a professor, USC's Richard Easterlin deduced something that seemed astonishing, at least for an economist: Money doesn't buy happiness.

    Grandparents and sages have said as much through the ages. Yet when Easterlin published his first happiness research in the 1970s, fellow economists brushed it off. "People don't take this as serious stuff," he said. "They think it's maybe cocktail party conversation."

    Things are looking up these days for Easterlin, 80, and the small but increasingly visible network of researchers relying on the so-called dismal science of economics to find the keys to happiness.

    If earning more money generally does surprisingly little or even nothing to make societies happier, they wonder, what works better? Good health? Marriage? Sex? By one reckoning, boosting the frequency of sex in a marriage from once a month to once a week brings as much happiness as an extra $50,000 a year.

    Happiness economists review thousands of attitude surveys and apply high-level math to calculate the satisfaction connected with activities and demographic traits. It sounds like sociology, but the economists are more apt to focus on money and work.

    Consider the sex study. Through surveys and some fancy math, economists essentially created a ladder of happiness and found that the extra sex and the extra $50,000 provided the same boost.


    http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...home-headlines


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    Default Re: Valuing Sexworkers

    Correction - IMHO money, beyond a minimal amount depending on your essential lifestyle etc, is wasted. But if you do not have that minimum amount, your life is Hell, the amount of Hell being exponentially proportional to the amount of the deficit. If you have more than you need, you will waste it or give it away in some way. This is the stuff that tension is made from. So though money does not buy happiness, lack of it will send you to your own personal Hell.

    Continuing - IMHO Sex, if absent and enough time has elapsed, you will not miss it. But during the transition to abstinence, depending on your personal proclivities, you will find some way to obtain it, even if it is solo. Once a person has enough sex, that person does not want it more frequently except during trying times.

    So this article is only a broad generalization for a limited number of people at best, and is oriented toward male judgements. For my own circumstance at present, sex only once a month is almost like having none at all, and I could be happy with a few hundred thousand, even without sex. IMHO.
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    I loved going to strip clubs; I actually made some friends there. Now things are different for the clubs and for me. As a result I am not as happy.

    Customers are not entitled to grope, disrespect, or rob strippers. This is their job, not their hobby, and they all need income. Clubs are not just some erotic show for guys to view while drinking.

    NOTE: anything I post here, outside of a direct quote, is my opinion only, which I am entitled to. Take it for what you estimate it is worth.

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    ^^So are you saying that you would give up sex in favor of more money?

    But I also agree with your assertion that once a person has enough money for the basic and secondary comforts, more money does not make a person happier.

    If you are hungry or laking enough money for basic services like power or medicine, then yes, that can be a living hell.

    I wouldn't mind finding out that more money wouldn't make me any happier, though, you know for the sake of science .


    Promote yourself and earn more money! This is a business that is owned by strippers for strippers. Let's make that money!


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    There's nothing new here. Napolean Hill wrote an entire chapter in Think and Grow Rich to sex and that was written decades ago.

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    I agree with what has been said.

    I think that $$ and sex go well as a pair. Hey, if you've got some disposable dollars you can enjoy the SC more often (that makes strippers' wages go up or at least it otta').

    You can also take some exotic vacations with your SO, which will lead to a definate improvement in your sex life!

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