*I don't know any parents recommending prostitution as a good career move*

I don't know any parents who suggest that their daughters go to the
pub, get pissed, screw whoever for free and land up pregnant and on
a pension! Instead, many parents still tell their daughters to find
a rich guy, which is similar to the working girl, only less honest.

* although there are those who recommend stock broking (work that creates nothing but also pays well*

Ok Fraccy, so you don't understand the importance of the stock market
to our economy. Economics is not your strength. Best you stick to
acting :)

*Your claims about prostitution being an ace job*

I did not say it was an ace job. I said it was a highly paid job,
for those with the aptitude for it. If you think that girls
dishing it out for nothing, when they are too drunk to think, then
landing up on a pension for years, well that is your opinion,
not mine. All I have stated is that if I was young and female, I would
not be so stupid!

* I think if I won lotto I’d just hire a nanny to help and have even more kids – does anyone think a prostitute would hang on to their job?*

PP, don't confuse your instinctive motherly hormones, with real paid
for work out there. Note how many buy lotto tickets each week,
many actually don't go to work by choice, they are simply on the
treadmill.

Dicky dear, you claim to know the mining industry, but seemingly hardly understand it.
Luckily in business, there is not the
scrutiny of politics, which is why politics does not land up with
the sharpest of candidates.

Results matter in business, and mining is an industry where billions can be
wasted on stuff ups, as we see with various past BHP projects.

If I was on the board of a major mining company, results would be
my criteria for management hiring and firing, not if one of
my executives had a blow job at lunchtime

“If I was on the board of a major mining company, results would be
my criteria for management hiring and firing, not if one of
my executives had a blow job at lunchtime”

Oh but Yabby dear – you're not on the board of a mining company and unlike "Dicky" you have never been on the board of a mining company. What's more, you wouldn't know a geological report from a shipload of sheep, so once again, you exhort through the wrong orifice.

“You cant tell me someone can become passed out drunk from drinking a double vodka rather than a single. Even if you have 3 in an hour and someone has made them doubles, you feel drunk, and say 'I've had enough to drink thanks' next time you're asked.”

Houellebecq – I was not referring to double or triple nips of spirits. I was referring to the drugs Rohypnol and Fantasy, the date rape or 'drink spiking' drugs. Be careful what you wish for.

Protagoras: You raise profound points and examples.

The Diane Brimble case - one of the saddest examples of the contempt in which a woman can be held while being drugged (an overdose) and used for sex. Lawd only knows what that poor woman endured. Instead of getting help in a timely manner, her 4-8 abusers ensured that all evidence was washed away and that she was clothed again before they raised the alarm.

There was even photographic evidence of the abuses that one of them tried to destroy; later retrieved by police - yet as you say, they're all still walking around. One has since been in strife for importing porn I think; another has left the country. Biz as usual.

That cruise line site that her ex-spouse set up I think documents many similar events. Just so terribly sad.

Yabby, I remember once that you said you'd read a book; perhaps two; on evolutionary theory. Very commendable. However, I advise you to read some more and read more widely.

You still don't seem to understand the difference between established, evidenced fact and subjective explanation. Taking current (preferred, by some - such as yourself) behaviours and then trying to rationalize them as 'natural' and inevitable because someone THINKS (not knows) that early humans or animals behaved in a certain way, is merely a moral convenience.

I've demonstrated before how we can devise any number of explanations depending on whose interests or preferences are being served.

I've also pointed out some of the many holes in your preferred (and worn out old) theories. You never take account of any that detract from your narrowly chosen set of beliefs.

Yabby:”PP, don't confuse your instinctive motherly hormones, with real paid for work out there. Note how many buy lotto tickets each week,many actually don't go to work by choice, they are simply on the
treadmill.”

No way I would Yabby, I hated working in an office, it really felt like work. Worked on a farm but that was the same as fostering – messy, tiring, but on the whole far too much fun these days to be considered working.

Did you just do a complete about face there saying that prostitutes are now on a treadmill rather than the “women just need a reason” line you used earlier?

Pynchme could you give me an example of a “subjective explanation”? It means a biased explanation?

Fractelle:” Its a flower... not a triffid.”

Haha.. not by the flower, there is a weird looking person type thing in the shed.

protagorous,

'I was referring to the drugs Rohypnol and Fantasy'
Rubbish. The whole post was all about alcohol. But if you want to talk about those drugs, even easier...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-436592/Drug-rape-myth-exposed-study-reveals-binge-drinking-blame.html

The 12-month study was based on 75 patients - mostly women - treated in casualty who told doctors their drinks had been tampered with in pubs or clubs.

But tests for drugs such as Rohypnol, GHB and ketamine found nothing, says the study published in the Emergency Medicine Journal.

It showed 65 per cent of women had 160mg of alcohol in their blood - twice the 80mg drink/drive limit - and a quarter were three times over the limit. Although all the patients denied taking drugs such as cocaine and amphetamine, one fifth tested positive.

Sure it happens, but nowhere near as much as people make out.