'Chaste' Dating ... for ca$h
[url]http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-05-27/news/see-dick-pay-jane-chaste-dating-for-cash/[/url]
The Village Voice recently reported on what may be a new or newly revived phenomenon in New York.- "chaste" dating, whereby an agency arranges for you a purely platonic encounter with an arguably attractive AW. The story profiles a single Manhattan agency founded and staffed by precisely the type of humorless, ball-breaking, grrl power-invoking, postmodern feminist harridan you'd expect to be running such an enterprise. The "gals" clearly believe their $60-an-hour fee (no touching, buster! ) is a magnanimous gift to the cadre of socially inept losers they deign to half-listen to on said "dates." While not articulating delusions of their own value, the urban princesses critique their schmuck-clients with a near-hostile disdain over everything from the guys' banter to choice of libation, while mentally ticking off lists of consumer labels affixed to their paying partner (his pants, cellphone, shoes, and on and on).
It's hard to deny the inherent foolishness of a guy who would shell out hard-earned bucks for this kind of treatment in a milieu in which the prospect of ensuing sex seems almost guaranteed not to happen. But the AW seems to have a hit a new high in terms of deluded self-worth and a new nadir in man-hating.