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| The good-time girls done good |
| 2006-06-18 |
| The oil boom of the 1980s made London the world’s premier party town The accusation last week that Heather Mills, the former model and soon to be ex-Lady Paul McCartney, was immersed in a party scene where girls regularly took money from wealthy Arabs for sex in the early 1990s sent shock waves round Britain. Certainly Mills herself was dismayed — and plans to sue over the claims — but should the rest of us have been so thrown by the idea? There was indeed a shadowy world of late-night parties where middle-class English roses would do all sorts of things for the right price, as anyone who experienced the heady days of petrodollar fever will remember. It began with Opec’s quadrupling of crude oil prices in 1973, continued by virtue of arms sales to the Middle East in the 1980s and petered out only in the early 1990s, after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. During that time Arab money flooded into Britain and with it insanely rich Arab party givers. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #9 "I don't pay women for sex, I pay them to go away." - Jack Nicholson |
| Posted by: tipper 2006-06-18 22:33 |
| #8 Anonymoose, you are a turnip. |
| Posted by: Fordesque 2006-06-18 21:18 |
| #7 99.999% of all prostitution is indistinguishable from "normal" sex Fuck's sake moose!!! I've taken a group of local, special needs kids in yellow hats and we've dug my local bowling green for fish but that is a BRAVE statement. |
| Posted by: pihkalbadger 2006-06-18 20:33 |
| #6 Moose, I've seen so many statements like yours that I wonder when exactly it was normal for people to get married and start families, and actually give their children a decent education and a good start in life. The Europeans have brought into that idea so heavily they're going to go vanish into the demographic black hole. I think you're looking at behavior that was on the margin of most societies in history and pretending it was in the center there. |
| Posted by: Phil 2006-06-18 16:13 |
| #5 Thanks for that Moose, now hang on a sec whilst I step way-y-y-y back to avoid the splatter ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2006-06-18 15:41 |
| #4 We need Robin Leach to do the voiceover on this for the Rantburg on Tape division... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-06-18 10:37 |
| #3 Looking at prostitution as something unnatural or abnormal is downright bizarre. Sex is the most normal thing there is. So is money changing hands. 99.999% of all prostitution is indistinguishable from "normal" sex. So why the shock and outrage? Are females "wrong" for having sex with those outside of their "tribe"? Not biologically. It is a biological prerogative in some to help prevent inbreeding. Are females "wrong" for wanting sex with multiple partners? Not biologically. Females can under some circumstances "choose" which sperm they allow to fertilize their egg, out of a selection of sperm. Conversely, different men's sperm compete with each other inside the female to reach the egg first. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-06-18 08:57 |
| #2 I've heard stories about the North Slope in AK where that wasn't true, but certainly barring bizarro man-made exceptions, you've nailed it. Opportunity talks. |
| Posted by: Slatle Chomotle5631 2006-06-18 07:06 |
| #1 I don't think there's ever been a shortage of whores anywhere. |
| Posted by: JerseyMike 2006-06-18 06:36 |