I heard that Leavitt’s mom is pretty cheap; and I don’t mean that in a macroeconomic sense.
While I’m not reading dating columns, sometimes I venture to other sections of the New York newspapers to try to find quality articles.
This post, unfortunately, will not be about a quality article that I’ve found.
Quite the opposite, I’ve found one that’s particularly putrid, and worth sharing with the world. (I have twisted logic.) The Freakonomics guys, Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt, write this week in the Times Magazine about the price of sex and how price changes can influence sexuality. Granted, some of their prior hypotheses were perhaps more controversial than sensible, even if they’d been both to a large degree… but this one’s simply off the deep end.
First of all, most homosexuals will not “flip the switch” simply because being homosexual is too much of a burden in any way, shape, or form. Haven’t they been through enough harrassment over time? I think they’re resilient. And also, they’re not all bisexual, and those who aren’t should not be considered to be in-denial, pretending, or potentially fickle. I’d argue that this reasoning does not lead to any statistically meaningful amount of gay people going straight, but it would go a very long way in explaining why there are many closeted gays. But that’s obvious and boring.
Second, using their terminology, let me make an even more obvious observation: It costs me a whole lot to fuck a woman. More than is reasonable, and it goes that way for most men. And yet, no matter how cheap it is for me to have gay sex - I could probably be balls-deep in someone’s ass in 10 minutes if the idea tickled me - I can assure you that IT WON’T GODDAMN HAPPEN. On my watch, the only thing that’s going into anyone’s ass is this article.