Economy of sex: supply and demand?
If you know anything about economics, you are familiar with supply and demand. It means something of value is desired and in demand. Then supply is how much the market can offer said desired/demand.
It doesn’t sound all that romantic but many consider dating, sex, and marriage as part of the “sexual economy” and apparently sex is a cheap commodity.
I recently read an article that said society puts a price tag on sex. We may or may not realize it, but we participate in it. Interestingly enough, with so many casual hook ups, friends with benefits, it’s complicated type of “situations” – we somehow have a twist on supply and demand in the sex market. Sex is easy to get and individuals aren’t always looking to exchange it for marriage or relationships.
Now, is this a good thing or a bad thing? Does it depend on what you want?
If you don’t like the current climate of the sex market, what do you do?
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
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Leggs
June 29th, 2011
3:57 pm
Hannibal Lechter
Corolla, MCH, Wifey
June 29th, 2011
3:57 pm
Wait a minute… Are yall trying to says Wifey is a dude?
Kimmie: “4 Real – You ain’t slick!!!” – That’s what you said just before we had sex and you made me take off my Daffy Duck hat.
Slim: “For Real – And here all this time I thought that I just got bit by a mosquito. Why didn’t you tell me we had started?” – Don’t ack you know I was there. What did you think you were scratching all this time?
Purp: You don’t trust me? How far we go back?
Elementry?
Jump rope?
Hide-and-go-seek?
Pitty-pat?
Red light, green light?
Into the Light
June 29th, 2011
3:57 pm
Leggs June 29th, 2011 3:53 pm
@Exiled ~ I said the same thing about him pleasing himself on the recliner.
Well, I guess nobody knows what you like as well as you do….
Exiled!
June 29th, 2011
3:58 pm
U know what’s really funny….
that, the said culprit is hooked on the computer screen right now…and checking what pple are saying about them…
reading!
addictive much!
Picture that!
SHIM
June 29th, 2011
4:01 pm
Hi blogsville. My name is Shim and I’m new here. Please don’t let my voice and appearance throw you off as I know I’m something like an anomaly. My voice sounds very feminine as well as my mannerisms. However, I looka like a man. Whenever I get aroused I get both hard and wet at the same time. The doctors are still trying to figure out a solution to that problem. I only get a cycle once a year but i pretty much have a man-cycle 3 days out of every month. I don’t stop to ask for directions and I am also a terrible backseat/passenger seat driver and I nag sometimes. I hear there is a great place to eat…Didn’t someone mention Bonefish?
Exiled!
June 29th, 2011
4:01 pm
who u talking bout cba?
For Real
June 29th, 2011
4:02 pm
Dayum. I don’t know how s/he could keep it str8. I can’t even make fun and keep str8.
Sassy Me...there can be only ONE :-)
June 29th, 2011
4:03 pm
Wait a minute… Are yall trying to says Wifey is a dude?
no we passed the “trying” stage this morning… You don’t feel dirty now that you’ve slept with “them” do you For Realla…it’s okay we didn’t know either…
Purple Rain
June 29th, 2011
4:03 pm
Corolla, are you For Real? How you going to open a Chinese spot in the hood, you aint Chinese.
cba, if I answer that question it would reveal to much.
Exiled, you already know who. Think real hard because when it happened I asked you if she was the “loose type” on the blog.
Simple Man...
June 29th, 2011
4:03 pm
Shim AKA Pat….
kimmie
June 29th, 2011
4:04 pm
4 Real – Oh err thang was st8, until it got sloppy, raggedy!LOL!!
cba
June 29th, 2011
4:05 pm
Exiled, I was refering to PR’s 3:53
For Real
June 29th, 2011
4:06 pm
“You don’t feel dirty now that you’ve slept with “them” do you For Realla”
For Real now crouched in the shower buckett nekket crying and chewing a woad of gum like Jim Carey in Ace Venture.
kimmie
June 29th, 2011
4:06 pm
Pat….
Celisea
June 29th, 2011
4:06 pm
You don’t feel dirty now that you’ve slept with “them” do you For Realla
LOLOL
Dang now who is Pat?
Into the Light
June 29th, 2011
4:06 pm
LOL @ Simple Man…..It’s time for adrogyny….it’s just Pat!
Kaiser Swiss-e
June 29th, 2011
4:07 pm
Okay, you might all want to sit down, ‘cos I’m about to blow your minds. None of this is real. We are all trapped in the same dream. The random, shape-shifting blog personas are just projections of the dreamer, Slim’s CT. That’s right. It’s Slim’s CT’s world. We’re just living in it.
Sassy Me...there can be only ONE :-)
June 29th, 2011
4:07 pm
Seriously?!
Into the Light
June 29th, 2011
4:07 pm
you know, Cel…from Saturday Night Live
kimmie
June 29th, 2011
4:07 pm
Okay Lafonz, stop! The folks sitting near me are wondering what’s wrong. I’m trying to laugh all low and it comes out like I’m crying!!LOL!!
Celisea
June 29th, 2011
4:08 pm
ITL – Ahhh Okay..thanks. I’m getting dizzy
Sassy Me...there can be only ONE :-)
June 29th, 2011
4:08 pm
For Real now crouched in the shower buckett nekket crying and chewing a woad of gum like Jim Carey in Ace Venture.
awww it’s okay…I don’t think of you any differently..
Leggs
June 29th, 2011
4:10 pm
@Exiled ~ leave it alone. Let sleeping dogs sleep!
Sassy Me...there can be only ONE :-)
June 29th, 2011
4:10 pm
Kimmie, me too
Laughing and being discreet doesn’t exist..
Exiled!
June 29th, 2011
4:10 pm
Cba!
no she’s not here,not anywhere really..
PR was smoking hashish when he had those 3.53 thoughts….not a real woman!
SlimNumeroUno
June 29th, 2011
4:10 pm
You don’t feel dirty now that you’ve slept with “them” do you For Realla…it’s okay we didn’t know either
Purple Rain
June 29th, 2011
4:10 pm
LOL, lafonz was she ne ne’s boyfriend on Martin.
For Real, you have to wear a G.A.B. shirt…it doesn;t count if you didn’t enjoy it….okay it does count…but hey man everybody turns gay at some point.
lol@Pat!
The real sassy1 needs to step up.
Purple Rain
June 29th, 2011
4:11 pm
Exiled you know it’s a real woman. Other guys on here have hit it already and you know it. LOL
SlimNumeroUno
June 29th, 2011
4:12 pm
Swiss – It’s like that movie Inception. lol
For Real
June 29th, 2011
4:12 pm
Kimmie: “4 Real – Oh err thang was st8, until it got sloppy, raggedy!LOL!!” – You ain’t neva lied.
Purp: Since you don’t like Chinese, I can take you over to my grandmama house.
She cook you some chicken, some cornbread, some poulet.
Kaiser Swiss-e
June 29th, 2011
4:13 pm
I am Batman.
Exiled!
June 29th, 2011
4:14 pm
Ok..Exiled now in conference
cba
June 29th, 2011
4:14 pm
Thanks Exile, I was about to ask why did he refuse the offer. Afterall, he was single at the time
But yeah, that hash will do you in everytime j/k
Sassy Me...there can be only ONE :-)
June 29th, 2011
4:14 pm
I’m sayin tho…Slim Nu. We were hood winked n bam boozled..
For Real
June 29th, 2011
4:16 pm
Alright Peace Out Blog Fam. Happy 4th of July to everyone especially the soldiers and the veterans.
Celisea
June 29th, 2011
4:16 pm
OMG….any more pressing and names are gonna fly…
Purple Rain
June 29th, 2011
4:17 pm
I said no because it was to easy, she is/was married and I was not the only guy she solicited and I know that everyone did not say no.
For Real, I like Chinese Seoul Food.
Sassy Me...there can be only ONE :-)
June 29th, 2011
4:17 pm
Man I need a drank…I want a Lemon Drop with an extra shot on the side. Might make one for real when I get home..
Celisea
June 29th, 2011
4:17 pm
2 bloggers didn’t say no
Into the Light
June 29th, 2011
4:17 pm
OMG, y’all….MCH’s post from 8ish yesterday morning:
Would it make a difference if it were a woman? …….
Into the Light
June 29th, 2011
4:18 pm
Sassy, I LOVE lemon drops.
Purple Rain
June 29th, 2011
4:19 pm
Yeah, MCH is gay getting hugged and all by the half naked gay dude
Sassy Me...there can be only ONE :-)
June 29th, 2011
4:19 pm
any more pressing and names are gonna fly…
it’s flown already..on the sly with just a few involved off the blog. Some things the rest of us aren’t/won’t be privy to..
Exiled!
June 29th, 2011
4:19 pm
4.03 and what was my response PR!
Im Singing California,Californiaaaaaa
By Tupac
Celisea
June 29th, 2011
4:19 pm
Today is sort of reminiscent of the old days…slighty different twist. When things popped off and went awry, names got called.
Sassy Me...there can be only ONE :-)
June 29th, 2011
4:20 pm
I do,too ITL…that would be great for a day like today.
Simple Man...Posing with Mardi Gras Mask to hide My Identity
June 29th, 2011
4:21 pm
Sassy you wanna meet in teh bar area at BoneFish…I hear they have a cancellation…
Purple Rain
June 29th, 2011
4:21 pm
Exiled, she sent you and me the same picture, light skin woman in a blue dress
Celisea
June 29th, 2011
4:22 pm
it’s flown already..on the sly with just a few involved off the blog. Some things the rest of us aren’t/won’t be privy to..
Yeppers Sassy
Sassy Me...there can be only ONE :-)
June 29th, 2011
4:22 pm
Now y’all being obvious with it…