# Getting paid for sex **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2019, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595 "2019-06-16T03:41:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BeardOfBees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@BeardOfBees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeardOfBees)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/1 "2019-06-16T03:41:14Z")
Inspired by Indecent Proposal: what’s the minimum of amount of money you would have to be offered for one night of sex with a stranger? ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_Raygun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c67d28/32.png) [@Ronald\_Raygun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_Raygun)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/2 "2019-06-16T04:02:35Z")
Depends on the stranger. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/3 "2019-06-16T04:31:16Z")
> [@Ronald\_Raygun](#): > > Depends on the stranger. This is the key question. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/4 "2019-06-16T04:39:17Z")
As I’m married, I’ll have to leave that as a management negotiation. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/5 "2019-06-16T04:44:08Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > As I’m married, I’ll have to leave that as a management negotiation. Kinda what I was thinking. I’m not sure what price he’d think was worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/6 "2019-06-16T05:09:35Z")
$63,296,301 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/7 "2019-06-16T05:44:05Z")
Money? Shit, a corndog and a slushie from Sonic’ll buy me. ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/8 "2019-06-16T06:05:54Z")
I’m a man, I usually have to spend money to have sex with a stranger…dinner, drinks, movie. It’s like asking me how much I charge to go to a concert. Aerosmith=I’ll watch for free Taylor Swift=$5000 min ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/9 "2019-06-16T06:15:14Z")
I’ve thought about this a lot when I was bored so I have an itemized list of what I’d take from who (also take into account I’m a single straight male) Sex with any decent looking woman (basically any woman who I don’t double take at due to how odd she looks) - Free Sex with obese woman - $100 Sex with distractingly ugly woman - $200 Sex with horribly disfigured woman - $1,000 Sex with man (receiving oral) - $250 Sex with man (giving oral) - $5,000 Sex with man (giving anal) - $10,000 Sex with man (receiving anal) - $50,000 ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/10 "2019-06-16T06:17:28Z")
I think once you start getting in the $10m range, I might consider it. Below that, you’re still just talking retirement money. I like working and I don’t worry about being able to cover my own retirement, so it’s not really a draw. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/11 "2019-06-16T13:26:54Z")
A more interesting thought experiment for this highly unlikely scenario is “how much would the offer have to be for my wife to be okay with it,” and “how much more before she’d insist on it?” Now, just need to find the right time to ask… ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/12 "2019-06-16T13:43:38Z")
> [@BobBitchin](#): > > I’m a man, I usually have to spend money to have sex with a stranger…dinner, drinks, movie. > It’s like asking me how much I charge to go to a concert. > > Aerosmith=I’ll watch for free > > Taylor Swift=$5000 min Presumably, reverse those numbers for the sex question? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/13 "2019-06-16T13:53:38Z")
Buy me a beer. _No_, not at happy hour prices, I’m not a slut. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/14 "2019-06-16T13:56:29Z")
Well, I only have $40 in my wallet but I can run to an ATM. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/15 "2019-06-16T14:01:56Z")
I wouldn’t do it, due to fighting the hypothetical. Any amount sufficient to entice the not-very-attractive me would be so high that I would not trust that the person would actually pay. I’d add at least an order of magnitude to **Asuka’s** answers and would need cash on the barrelhead (as it were.) ---
**Author:** ![UnwittingAmericans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d9b06d/32.png) [@UnwittingAmericans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwittingAmericans)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/16 "2019-06-16T14:03:20Z")
You should make it more interesting and substitute strangler. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/17 "2019-06-16T15:25:36Z")
I’m interpreting the definition of “stranger” so that I practically know nothing about the person, and can’t run a background check. That means that the only thing I know about this person is they’re willing to pay a suspiciously large amount of money just to have sex with _me_. If they offered me a little, I wouldn’t do it because I wouldn’t have sex for money, and because it was very little money, if they offered me a lot, I wouldn’t do it because I wouldn’t have sex for money, and because it’s definitely something wrong with someone who wants to offer me that much money for sex. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/18 "2019-06-16T17:41:51Z")
Even as a thought exercise, my reaction is, “Uh, nope.” I suppose the answer \*might \*be different if I was desperate or destitute, but not likely. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/19 "2019-06-16T18:10:20Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I’m not a slut. Cite? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595/20 "2019-06-16T18:17:32Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Buy me a beer. _No_, not at happy hour prices, I’m not a slut. What if it was a premium beer that just happened to be on special that day? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paid-for-sex/835595.md?page=2)