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Why Cheap is Worse then Free

Paid sex.
It's been really buzzing these days, has't it. One of the local papers, Today , that prides itself as being slightly more alternative then The Straits Times, has yet another trashy article, this time on kinky sex at a cost. Ah well, but trashy articles are in every paper anyway. Readers thrive on them , and so do profits. (And I do not deny to be immune)

Well, someone posted on the SuicideG group forums...

Supposedly, expensive is better than cheap, but cheap is worse than free. Seems like there's a hole in that logic

I've always wondered about that.
Whenever I read rubbish like Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, or, well allright, That alone (that's the only novel about a whore I've ever read. My literary tastes haven't degenerated that much since I progressed beyond Roald Dahl) Anyway, whenever I read anything else then, along those lines, that basically tell you why have sex for free when you can charge, this paradox always comes to mind.

Techincally it's worse isn't it. If you just fuck around for free. But the truth is, it Isn't.
Because most people don't just have sex and leave it at that. They expect more.
They expect sweet morning calls and smart mouth sms-es at lunch time, expensive dates at revolving restaurants and cheap ones on the couch in front of a rented DVD, weekend get-a-ways to Rome or Bintan. And all of that accumulates into emotional payment that's worth more then oh, the $300 they charge at Orchard Towers.

So, see. If a girl is going to have sex with someone who's not going to provide all of that (and given that it's not her rice-bowl) she's going to have to charge all that she's forgoing. Which would also include her dignity and self-worth in most cases. If sex is expensive, it's not because it's better then cheap. It's because that's what it has to be.

And we all know this.

Free, is never free.