Money Can't Buy You Love
Dating has never been easy, but with the rise of the internet came the fresh option of online dating. It started simple, create an online profile emphasizing your best qualities, see if you have any matches, and then test that person out on a date.
That simplicity keeps evolving into something else ugly, and the latest website to highlight our society’s dark side is Whatsyourprice.com. This is a place where men can essentially bid on women for first dates, and the highest bidder pays the money directly to the female he wants to take out. Seriously, our culture has evolved to buying first dates.
The site is populated by two kinds of people, the “attractive” and the “generous.” The “generous” members make bids on the “attractive” and then the “attractive” members decide which one of the bidders is worth going out with on a date. When the “attractive” (the female) receives an offer, she has the option of accepting it, rejecting it, or countering it with a different price. So, ladies, you can haggle to some male about just how much you think you are worth.
The website offers their users useful first date etiquette tips for payment, such as, “pay 50% of the date at the start, and then 50% at the end.” Sound a little familiar? It’s not that different from the world’s oldest profession, prostitution, minus the fact that sex is just implied on Whatsyourprice.com, rather than guaranteed. But don’t be naive; it’s highly unlikely that men are going to pay a ton of money just to take you out to dinner.
The best thing that can be said about this website is that it at least eliminates certain kinds of people out of the dating pool for the rest of us. Who really wants to date a guy who has to pay a woman to go out with him? I mean, he is already likely paying for the cost of the date anyway. And what kind of guy really wants to date a woman who will only consider him if there is a profit involved? These don’t sound like the quality of people most of us are searching for in a life-long mate.
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