Would you let your wife sleep with another man for $1,000,000?
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devoidofeverything — 21 years ago(July 03, 2004 03:27 PM)
The average person in our society prostitutes their decency, their creativity, their morality, and their autonomy so that they can make a living. Prostituting your body once for a million dollars is just doing the same damn thing, only it's more honest. Not to mention more profitable.
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soundbite — 21 years ago(July 17, 2004 07:31 AM)
Damn Straight -
There's some real good ol' fashioned double standards coming into play here.
The main point of my original post above was 'IF SHE WANTED TO DO IT' - i.e. if my wife thought the guy was hot and wanted to sleep with him AND there was a million dollars in it for our future then NO PROBLEMO!!
Because, if the tables were turned and a hot lady offered me a million bucks to spend a night of passion with her (unlikely but undulge me anyway) my wife would KICK MY ASS if I said no.
WHY?
Because a million dollars would set us up for the rest of our lives and open the door to having a family.
AND we love each other hugely and are secure enough in our relationship to know the difference between recreation and serious commitment.
The crux is - if someone is offering to pay a million to do something ENJOYABLE and FUN then where's the harm.
If, however, the person waving the money was not attractive to my wife then no amount of cash would make her go anywhere near. That's the difference between her and a prostitute.
As I said previously - the whole point of the original screenplay was the millionaire wasn't particularly attractive. The writers wanted Dustin Hoffman (attractive but in a less obvious way)in the role thus creating a real dilemma.
The studio hierachy bumped him for the relative eye-candy of Robert Redford which really defeated the whole object of the film. -
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elperrosato — 21 years ago(October 14, 2004 07:03 AM)
I think there's probably no better way to test the relationship. I mean, if a couple can survive through an obvious indiscretion, then they can probably survive through anything.
As for the good looking millionaire aspect of the movie, it does make the scenario a little unreal, but it makes the husband's dilemna more obvious. What if she's thinking of the other man while she makes love to her husband? Such a thought could eventually crush a lesser man.
On the other hand, if the relationship doesn't go well, he can always get divorced and keep half. I have been pretty down about broken up relationships before, but a half a mil might've made me forget some of that misery and the lingering thought of some skeez in bed with the wife
Finally, it may be worth noting that there are websites dedicated to couples who are made a similar offer, except the couple only gets $1000 and the girl gets filmed while her significant other has to watch. If so many folks will whore themselves out for $1000, it's probably pretty safe to assume that there'd be a few more folks willing to do it for $1 million.as one poster put it "for a million dollars I'd let my wife have sex with a gorilla"
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libe613 — 21 years ago(October 26, 2004 02:17 PM)
Something like half of all married people cheat on their spouses. Here is a way for them to cheat and make a million. It's the American way. Supply and demand. Capitalism at its best.
god save the "queen" and by "queen" I mean last donut -
sanstereo — 21 years ago(December 12, 2004 10:15 PM)
"Dude, I'd let my wife beep a gorilla for a million dollars!!!!"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH, er. aaaaaaaaaahhhhhHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
whew, now that's the funniest thing i've read on these forums yet.
don't let these self-important, holier-than-thou dickheads on this website stop agood, honest response. a million bucks is a beep million bucks. -
The_Only_KayEm — 14 years ago(July 11, 2011 12:23 PM)
I suspect that those on this thread who spout off on morals etc are actually very wealthy people who don't have to struggle for a living and hence, have no idea what that's like.
As another poster said, people prostitute their personal dignity, morals etc every single day that they go to work. Nobody seems to have a problem with that. -
DjokerFan — 11 years ago(August 29, 2014 07:36 AM)
"I suspect that those on this thread who spout off on morals etc are actually very wealthy people who don't have to struggle for a living and hence, have no idea what that's like."
Depends. If they were born into money then possibly. But self-made people remember what it was like when they were struggling and know firsthand the power of money and what it can accomplish. I would argue that most of those people are college kids who are "in love" with their boyfriend/girlfriend and have no concept yet of how hard it is in the real world.
Now I'm not married, so perhaps my opinions are seen by married people as somewhat naive as well. But I look at it from the following perspective: At my current above-average salary, I have to work 17 and a half years to make a million dollars (pre-tax!). That being said, would I accept Redford's indecent proposal? Every day of the week and twice on Sunday. And it's not even for what that money could do for me, this decision is made too easy by the idea of what that money could pay for for my future child: food, clothing, shelter, little league, summer camp, and a college education which has become pretty darn pricey nowadays.
To those of you who are a firm "no" on this, and even to those of you saying you wouldn't go through with it for a million but you would for 5 or 10 million, when your children ask you why they need to take out student loans to pay for college, you go ahead and tell them the story of how you were once offered a million dollars for one night of infidelity but threw it away because you were just too much "in love."
sweetgal89 hasn't commented in a long time.I'd be interested to know if her opinion is the same at 25 y/o as it was at 16.