# What's your "Indecent Proposal" price? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 17, 2002, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327 "2002-08-17T13:06:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/41 "2002-08-19T17:02:27Z")
Ouch the board ate another post. Anyway, I would want to get paid enough to pay off the ensuing therapy bills and then live comfortably for quite a while. Unless of course the guy is hot, then if he smiles and tells me he loves me it is free. ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/42 "2002-08-19T17:20:14Z")
Um… a million dollars, my own psychiatrist, and every episode of the X-files on DVD. You still want to sleep with me? ---
**Author:** ![Toaster52](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/50afbb/32.png) [@Toaster52](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toaster52)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/43 "2002-08-19T19:55:48Z")
Well, since I’ve had the dubious pleasure of actually walking in on my (ex-) wife having sex with another man (and a girlfriend, also…twice in one lifetime is waaaaaaay too often), I could never bear to let my sweetie have sex with another guy with my knowledge. 'Course, that’s easy to say when one is financially sound. Take a few weeks of homelessness, say, and I’m sure the reasoning would be different. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/44 "2002-08-19T21:02:10Z")
I’d do it for a Klondike bar. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DMAAN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/278dde/32.png) [@DMAAN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMAAN)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/45 "2002-08-19T21:22:53Z")
Hell I’d take anything. It’d be different to have someone pay me for sex for a change. d did I just say that out loud? ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/46 "2002-08-19T21:36:05Z")
Enough to pay off our debts… including our mortage. Hmmm, I guess about 100,000 would do it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jpeg\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@Jpeg\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jpeg_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/47 "2002-08-19T22:14:08Z")
[116 trillion dollars](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=131075). ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/48 "2002-08-19T22:31:57Z")
whatever he could afford. ---
**Author:** ![Pink\_Lemonade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a8b319/32.png) [@Pink\_Lemonade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pink_Lemonade)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/49 "2002-08-20T00:55:06Z")
I’d have to sat enough for me to see Rent on broadway and stay in the hilton for two days , subway fare to Coney Island,enough to play games there all day and some to get back home from new york … how much would you say that is like 2,000$ ? ---
**Author:** ![Pink\_Lemonade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a8b319/32.png) [@Pink\_Lemonade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pink_Lemonade)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/50 "2002-08-20T01:00:22Z")
You know what? make that 20,000$ that would give me enough to stay there longer and hunt down certain people who i just have to meet and to see Hairspray on broadway too ( in case you havent noticed i LOVE anything on Broadway) ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/51 "2002-08-27T16:33:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Obsidian Flutterby \* > \*\*My price? Uhm… $50,000 would be good because I could live off of that for awhile while I finish up my high school (and do a bit of partying) and possibly go to college for at least the first couple of years with it… and I might invest some too… \*\* - $50k will sustain you for 2 years, party, invest some and college!! .:smack: I’m doing something wrong then…where the Hell do you live? (packing my bags and waiting for your reply) ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/52 "2003-04-24T15:55:42Z")
I just thought I’d resurrect this poll, because I was talking to a co-worker today… and she told me that in the mid 1990s, in London, she was actually offered £100,000 diamond pendant to spend the night with a man. She turned it down, although she said she was sorely tempted with the idea of paying off all her student loans in one … er… pop, so to speak. The man was about thirty-five years her senior, and apparently a Arab oil man of some kind. She was a personal buyer at Harrad’s, and helped the man pick out the necklace… so there was no question as to its real value. Just thought it was interesting… - Rick ---
**Author:** ![Stonebow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Stonebow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stonebow)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/53 "2003-04-24T16:46:31Z")
well, as i am a happily married man there is no amount of money that would be acceptable. winners never cheat, and cheaters never win, as the saying goes. if i were unattached, and had never met my wife (who has totally changed my life)… $1.25 and a tic-tac would suffice. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/54 "2003-04-24T17:25:37Z")
Dead serious here: I’d do ANYTHING that didn’t involve permanent injury to me, another person, or damage to property (i.e. serious violation of the law) to get enough to retire - say $1M. If my (theoretical) husband couldn’t understand that and deal with it, recognizing that this was completely and utterly pragmatic with no bearing on our relationship, he wouldn’t be the right man for me anyway. I would prefer, however, that my parents never find out… ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/55 "2003-04-24T18:26:00Z")
My price? $20,000 That’s what Olshan wants to repair our home’s BADLY cracked foundation. Funny note: MrVena and I saw Indecent Proposal in the theater and when the movie was over I turned to him and asked “Would you want me to have sex with a strange man for a million dollars?” and MrVena replied, “Hell, for that much money, **I’d** do him!” ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/56 "2003-04-24T18:39:27Z")
My price? $50,000. Price for Mrs. O? $50,000. That would pay off my student loans and our consumer debt quite nicely. Hell, I just wanna _keep_ some of the money we actually earn, for once. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/57 "2003-04-24T18:50:20Z")
Depending on the person, the price could range from astronomically high to negative. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/58 "2003-04-24T19:20:27Z")
Well, **Already** , as I said in the OP, “One night of sex, of the gender you normally sleep with, not hideously ugly, but not Robert Redford, either.” I’m picturing Joe Average, or his sister Josephine Average. Maybe Bonnie Hunt / Jim Belushi sort of folk – not contenders for People’s Sexiest List, but not filthy, drooling, or violent, either. - Rick ---
**Author:** ![dil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@dil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dil)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/59 "2003-04-24T19:22:09Z")
Married - and no amount of money would suffice. It blows me away when people think that ANYTHING is for sale. Money isn’t everything, people. In fact, money is far less than everything. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327/60 "2003-04-24T19:44:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dil \* > \*\*Married - and no amount of money would suffice. It blows me away when people think that ANYTHING is for sale. Money isn’t everything, people. In fact, money is far less than everything. \*\* Madness! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indecent-proposal-price/124327.md?page=4)