Okay, so I am sitting in the previously mentioned Applebee’s, where the only good thing about the deafening ambience is that you can’t hear any of the TVs. As much as I try to ignore the babbleslabs, one catches my eye with what seems to be, what *has *to be a parody ad of some kind.
Then, dear gawd in heaven, I realize it’s *not *a parody.
www.WhatsYourPrice.com… where you can bid for first dates with women. Or, alternatively, if you are a woman, you can put yourself up for a first date auction.
I am too boggled on too many levels to continue. Discuss amongst yourselves.
The site seems - pardon the phrase - nakedly businesslike. I really did think the ad was a parody, because another unbelievable ad about some kind of magic medicine followed, and then it slowly sank it that they were meant to be taken seriously.
Look at the site. It might as well be for an escort service.
I can’t imagine it being illegal to do the same thing if it were more of a barter set up. Like setting up a dinner at Le Frenche Restaurante vs McDonald’s.
I’m pretty sure there’s long legal precedent that pandering and prostitution are such no matter what the value exchanged is. I would suppose that the site owners have good legal representation and have all the right disclaimers in place, but I don’t give them very long before they’re named in a legal case.
How would a “barter for dates” site be any different than advertising one’s desire for casual sex through okcupid? The guy buys dinner, they go back to his place, they hump. No laws were broken because no cash has changed hands.
IANAL but I’m sure NitroPress is right on this one. It isn’t sex for cash that’s illegal. It’s sex for value. Otherwise, hookers would just ask to be payed in gold or some other legal commodity that’s easily converted to cash.
Taking a look at their site, either you have to register to search (by price or by location) or the thing is just badly designed.
