freecounterpoint: Groping in the dark

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Groping in the dark

And rubbing the wrong way.

12 comments:

N_A said...: JJ
Why is it so cheap to get a male prostitute in Nashville? Enqueering minds want to know.

Who else?

NA; 4/13/2008 7:27 PM
Anonymous said...: Nicholas, I admire the sheer Audacity of that non sequitur, and I Hope JJ anwers it.
Sincerely, Michelle Obama; 4/14/2008 1:00 AM
Mr roT said...: Nicho, My feeling is that the Opry has a new appeal since La Ciega quit the New Orleans Opera.; 4/14/2008 2:34 AM
Mr roT said...: BTW, I am shocked there's no "Where's JJ?" label on this post. Have you cruds got some cultcha somewheres?; 4/14/2008 2:35 AM
Tecumseh said...: Got new company? I assume Nicholas is referring to the graph here. To help out with this profound discussion, I added a global (instead of just US) graph. So why is Beijing so much cheaper than, say, Dubai? And, what's going on in Budapest and Moscow?; 4/14/2008 2:39 AM
Tecumseh said...: JJ: I thought about putting that label, but then didn't want to ruffle your tender feathers.; 4/14/2008 2:40 AM
Mr roT said...: Who doesn't wish he had access to my feathers?; 4/14/2008 2:47 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Although I visited Lebanon, Tennessee once a while back, I'm unfamiliar with Nashville's male sex prices there, or throughout the planet.

But for female "sauna" services, here's one global take: it might be a bit cheaper in Beijing because, well, sex is not as big a taboo in eastern Asia (at least not in Mongolia) then, say, your Puritanical hot-pockets of the mid-East and Western Civilization. Imams thunder against screwing, because if they didn't, their potential recruits would realize that heaven on earth already exists (a point Michel Houellebecq makes in Platform). And sex is somehow bothersome to Mencken's Bible Belt still today (but so is the humble Darwin, nevermind that no one reads him in the original anymore).

There's also an economic variable: high-priced resorts and casinos draw fat cats, and with fat cats come the high priced ladies of the night.

This is all just theory and speculation, though. You know, hearsay and such.; 4/14/2008 2:50 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Dunno, MFT, you spake of forbidden fruit as if one who has known its taste.

Yeah, if there was any rhyme or reason to the IM hit list, China should be number one. After all, the Chinese were doing Caligula when the Romans were still trotting a Cincinnatus.
But they'll get there.; 4/14/2008 3:11 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Islam Militant would deal itself another deathblow to go after the Infidel Chinese with the same gusto that they went after the Trade Towers.; 4/14/2008 5:16 PM
Tecumseh said...: Genghis Khan taught IM a lesson or two about who the strong horse is.; 4/14/2008 5:52 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Yes, he did. But then his successors over Islamic territories wedded themselves to Islamm, and their lineage, the Ottoman Turks to the West, the Moghuls to the East, led the second major wave of Islamic Expansionsism.
By the way, a major impetus to the Ming rebellion against the Mongol Yuen dynasty, in China, was the increasing role of Islamic advisors in the court, coming in from the increasingly Islamicized central asiatic mongol lands.
Whatever it means, I can assure you that the chinese government authorities, both in the mainland and the exiled nationalists in Taiwan, fear Islam in a way they do not come close to fearing christianity or falun gong. They are openly mocking and bullying to the latter, they are prudent as all hell with the former.
Whatever it means, Islam is officially the largest religion in China, with the government estimating some 50 million non-Uighurs being followers of Islam.
Whatever it means, the government tries to coopt any political bent by the religious by setting up an official Chinese Muslim authority [as it does for Catholicism].
Whatever it means, the military authorities in China have, for the last two decades,filled their journals and think tanks with strategies for an alliance between Islam and China.
In 20 years, so much meaning will be so very clear.; 4/14/2008 7:54 PM