Comments on: Rich in Love

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 03:37:00 +0000

Just a random comment, but I strongly suspect (without really caring enough to actually read *all* of the comments here, much less the original reference) that this debate confuses correlation with causation.

The classic example is that car theft statistics show a rise in correlation with ice cream sales statistics. Both statistics rise at the same time in the year – during the summer, when it’s hot and people are out more. People being out more means more opportunities for car theft, and hot weather means that the simplest means of entering a locked car – bashing in a window – is less noticable (cops tend to look at you suspiciously if you’re driving around in the winter with your window rolled all the way down to hide the fact that it’s been bashed in).

People who have sex at least once a week are msot likely (except for outliers) in long-term, sexually active relationships. Of course they are likely to be happier. This is a correlation, not a causation.

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:16:00 +0000

yeah 973 times I agree. After 267 times she just doesn’t get that look in her eyes anymore like she wants it – so the magic is gone!

By: Marnie

Marnie — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:13:00 +0000

Wow! I am so honored to be quoted– I really am tickled. This is way better than being quoted in a newspaper or on tv AND I get to stay anonymous! Yay! and Thanks! Ok. Now I have to go back and finish reading your article.

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:51:00 +0000

Tom — Send me a writing sample, and I’ll let you know.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:16:00 +0000

“How to rectify this? Well, we could just force people who like leisure to work and give the proceeds to the state, but that makes us sort of uncomfortable, as we’re then caused to think a little too hard about what taxes really amount to.”

Ah, here’s a better solution, if you only force the ‘leisure fans’ to work more, then you don’t maximize your value created per hour. Much better to require the leisure fans to, instead of work, provide the hard-workers with a few more of those weeklies..

So.. which one of you hippie gals likes tall, overworked men?

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:02:00 +0000

Will — That’d be a good year, of course, but hardly unmanageable. It’s actually quite a bit easier, IMO, than billing 2000 hours.

By: Attila Girl

Attila Girl — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:02:00 +0000

No one here has discussed the basic inequality when it comes to men and women having sex: it’s relatively simple to please a man, but pleasing a woman takes some thought and effort.

That is probably the primary reason women say “no” to so many opportunities for sex: the chances are low something will be in it for them.

It’s not surprising that my interpretation of what was going on in that hammock was an inversion of what really was . . . (hint: I thought the graphic element being distorted was her nipple).

By: Luka Yovetich

Luka Yovetich — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:28:00 +0000

One other thing. I’m going to guess that the closer one gets to having sex with the same person 973 times the more useful porn becomes to that relationship.

Just a guess.

By: Luka Yovetich

Luka Yovetich — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:25:00 +0000

That’s okay Marie. It’s not that often that two Luca/Luka’s post on the same English speaking site!

It’s true. I have never even come close to having sex 973 times with the same person. (Haven’t gotten a handle on the long-long-term relationships yet…)

But just so you know. It turns out that my porn comsumption doesn’t go down too much when sex is happening in my life. A little. But not much…

Sex and porn can happily live together! What a wonderful world!

By: Will Wilkinson

Will Wilkinson — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:32:00 +0000

Marie, Isn’t that, like, 486 times a year?

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:11:00 +0000

Oops! My mistake. Sorry Luka!

“All men like variety” is not at all the same, Will, as suggesting that the returns to sex fall to zero after any monogamous relationship’s second year.

By: Will Wilkinson

Will Wilkinson — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:03:00 +0000

Marie, You’re confusing Luca for Luka. Luka professed to liking porn. Luca professes that all men like variety.

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:54:00 +0000

Luca – you shouldn’t knock having sex with the same person 973 times until you’ve tried it. Based on your professed level of porn consumption, I suspect you haven’t.

By: Luka Yovetich

Luka Yovetich — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:29:00 +0000

For anyone that thinks Cherry is pretty and would like to see her having sex, look up the volumes of Ed Powers’s Dirty Debutantes that she was in. She was in a bunch of them and she’s very talented.

By: Luka Yovetich

Luka Yovetich — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:26:00 +0000

Will,

I can explain how I know that that is Cherry Rain…I consume a lot of porn…