Bartering Sex (For Stuff)
CNN.com recently covered a story entitled (and I quote) Bartering Sex for Stuff and Services. It took me a moment to process the fact that this was a post on CNN.com, but the more I thought about it, it made perfect sense considering CNN is nothing but a pimp and hoe service. Anyway, the article interviews a young woman named Stephanie Gerson who once sold her body to live in a tree in the Brazilian jungle. For all we know, her real name could be Cindy McCain, you know how that goes. But back to swapping sex for a tree in the jungle.
“Stephanie” shares that while studying in Brazil, the one thing she wanted to do more than anything before leaving was to live for a short period in the heart of the Amazon. She happened to meet a young “bus-boy” several weeks before she left and he granted her wish.
When a college-aged busboy at a resort she was visiting began flirting with her, she asked him if he thought a tourist could survive alone in the jungle.”He laughed and told me I was nuts,” says Gerson, 27, who works part-time in online marketing for a chocolate company in San Francisco.
Then he told her that he’d grown up in the jungle in a nearby indigenous community. That was all Gerson needed to hear. Although she wasn’t attracted to the guy, Gerson flirted right back in the hopes that he would be her jungle tour guide. It worked. The busboy wormed his way out of work, and the two headed into the rain forest.”It was amazing,” Gerson says of her adventure in 2000. “We built our homes out of palm leaves, I saw animals I’d never seen before, he taught me the medicinal properties of all the plants, we picked fruit off the trees, we swam with and ate piranhas. And, of course, we had sex … for almost two weeks.”
Sigh.
This story is just ridiculous. And it gets worse. CNN then interviews Daniel Kruger, research scientist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He shares his findings on undergrads aged 18-24 about casual sex and then goes on to say,
“It’s more about getting what you want than getting what you need,” he says. “Unless you think everyone needs a $200 Louis Vuitton bag.”
WHAT?! Where in the world can you get a Louis Vuitton bag for $200? Where is this guy from? Oh, Michigan, that’s right. CNN needs to get it together before I go back to FOX ;).
