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| Africa Subsaharan |
| IWPR- Desperate Zimbabweans Resort to “Transactional” Sex |
| 2006-09-28 |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #18 For this thread, from here on up, it's downhill all the way... Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-09-28 21:20 that's my cue! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-09-28 21:37 |
| #17 For this thread, from here on up, it's downhill all the way... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-09-28 21:20 |
| #16 #14 .com, after his third divorce a friend told me, If it flies, Floats or F^cks, lease it. Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-09-28 16:46 Whahahahahahahahaaaaa.... too true! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-09-28 18:40 |
| #15 Lol. I've only been married once - the ex is on #5... |
| Posted by: .com 2006-09-28 16:56 |
| #14 .com, after his third divorce a friend told me, If it flies, Floats or F^cks, lease it. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-09-28 16:46 |
| #13 First off, thank you, Nimble Spemble for so readily grasping the gist of my prior post. I disagree, Zen...and sex has been transactional since Day One. Where did I say it is not? Even though I intensely dislike such a mechanically reductive assessment of what can easily be one of the most spiritual experiences two people can possibly share. While early sexual ritual and contract forms may have pivoted upon roles entrenched by hunter-gatherer social constructs, there is zero reason to assume that they have not or cannot evolve well beyond such a mechanistic configuration. Much of sub-Saharan Africa defines the intersection of modern wealth, hyper-corruption and futile attempts to carry forward tribal structures into progressive society. This sociological trainwreck mirrors the consequences of maintaining outmoded morals and ethics just as Islam reflects the upshot of hanging onto an outdated religion. The quotes I excerpted and commented upon were specifically selected to highlight this. Don't know if this is transactional. However it seems close. So it would appear to be just another manisfation of the female brain. Great article, for all sorts of reasons, tipper. As mentioned in it, the "unisex" brain hypothesis is not only just plain wrong, it is dangerously wrong. Just as moral relativism is an insult to rationality so is the concept of physical equality. All men are not created equal. Some are born retarded, others crippled and yet others deformed. What remains is that all men are created equal under the eyes of the law (as it should be), but most certainly not in the natural world. So it is with gender based brain structures. The sole fact that women are less lateralized than men point towards huge differences in thought processes and perception. Lateralization refers to the distribution of mental processes across both hemispheres of the human brain. Men tend to have given functions isolated within a single hemisphere representing greater lateralization. This is why women rarely suffer complete aphasia as a result of temporal brain injury. More lateralized males often lose all capacity for speech and must be retaught language subsequent to similar injuries. The mere fact that women more readily combine the intuitive and analytical functions of both their hemispheres literally demands that there be significant gender related differences in mental processing. That said and done with, I still do not find any historical basis for transactional sex being able to explain away the outrageously amoral conduct described in this article. The passages of text that I highlighted indicate human value structures that have quite possibly deteriorated beyond all hope of rescue or redemption. Without long term implanted female contraceptives like Norplant to protect young women from perpetual pregnancy and a complete sea change in the patriarchal structure of institutionalized male privilege, sub-Saharan Africa especially, but also large parts of the Islamic and undeveloped world may well face a death knell from HIV/AIDS and the hyper-corruption I mention. Personally, it is increasingly difficult to excuse or find sympathy for these corrupt and outdated cultures. Any pity I might have goes out only to the innocent children who are warped into such twisted circumstances. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-28 16:23 |
| #12 Since I was cured of the notion of "love" by my ex, I've been advocating this for about 25 years. I don't wanna own it, I just wanna borrow it for awhile. Ouch! Just got smacked in the shoulder... Damn, she's getting stronger, lol. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-09-28 16:06 |
| #11 Is transactional the right word? If there is a failure, you can't rollback the transaction. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2006-09-28 15:39 |
| #10 Don't know if this is transactional. However it seems close. So it would appear to be just another manisfation of the female brain. "And the evidence suggests that, for all the economic and social advances women have made, the powerful desire to have and care for children means many women are still interested in finding a provider. It's part of what Brizendine calls the "inherited architecture of the female brain's mate-choice system"." |
| Posted by: tipper 2006-09-28 09:57 |
| #9 it will go downhill in a hurry. Not unlike the south of Africa. Zen is correct. He did not argue that sex has been transactional, only that some market structures, if you wish to pursue the analogy, are more informed, functional and productive than others. Inverse yield curves are deleterious. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-09-28 09:32 |
| #8 While the article focuses on some who do it for nice clothes - the thrust of the article was that women were doing it due to deep poverty and a need to survive. |
| Posted by: anon 2006-09-28 09:13 |
| #7 I disagree, Zen...and sex has been transactional since Day One. Having said that, I'm steering clear of this thread, it will go downhill in a hurry. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-09-28 09:10 |
| #6 i agree zen |
| Posted by: sinse 2006-09-28 09:05 |
| #5 The mother allows men to pick up her daughter from her home at night and has also been pushing her to have a sexual relationship with a pastor at her church. “I don’t ask where she goes and what she does," she said. "I am just happy that she is able to bring something to the table. How did you think I could afford expensive clothes for her and her brother and the mountain bike my son has?” This woman is willing to attend a church where the pastor wants to rape her daughter and she has no qualms about it? That and what follows speaks volumes about how badly things are off of the rails. Since when are "expensive clothes" and a "mountain bike" things that are brought "to the table"? Food on the table to survive I might be able to understand, but I'd sooner go about in filthy rags than whore my child just to keep up with the Joneses. All of this points towards one horrific conclusion. The increasing demands by women for material rewards in exchange for sex is beginning to have another social impact. Married men interviewed by IWPR said it was becoming prohibitively expensive to engage in extra-marital affairs. “Women, especially those we refer to as the 'youth policy', are unmanageable, even for the so-called rich," said one financial executive. Only the completely amoral have ever been able to ignore the high price that infidelity exacts upon personal integrity. The consequences of transactional sex, bolstered by a culture in which male infidelity has often been explicitly or implicitly sanctioned, are catastrophic. Zimbabwean women now have the shortest lifespan in the world, according to the World Health Organisation. Largely as a result of HIV/AIDS, Zimbabwean women now have a life expectancy of 34 years and men of 37 I become increasingly convinced that the only cure for such a deeply dysfunctional culture is the AIDS virus. So much of sub-Saharan Africa is morally disfigured and ethically maimed to such an extent that simply wiping the slate clean may be the most humane thing to do. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-28 07:02 |
| #4 From the groups below, please select the word combinations which fail to properly match. A. Fish and Chips B. Thompson's and Gazelle C. Blackpool and Tower D. Transactional and Sex E. Swine and Sabbath |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-09-28 02:39 |
| #3 Transactional sex. How businesslike. In the old days, we used to say that desperate women were being forced into prostitution in order to survive. Now they just engage in transactional sex and if they are successful maybe they can even demand a car. How nice. |
| Posted by: anon 2006-09-28 01:55 |
| #2 I was going to write "What the...???", but instead I'll say that iff any African nation needs to be invaded = re-invaded by the British Army, to save it from itself, its this one. STALINIST "COLLECTIVIZATION" POLICIES GONE MAD. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-09-28 01:53 |
| #1 Some have dared to demand cars in exchange for sex. I hope Ford Motor Company doesn't get wind of THIS! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-09-28 01:52 |