The first time I saw this I was singing it everywhere I went for 3 weeks.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Calculating the value of prostitution
U is your satisfaction. It's what you, as a prostitute, care about - the satisfaction you gain from selling your services.
L is the amount of leisure you have.
C is the amount of goods and services you, as a consumer, consume.
S is the amount of prostitution you, as a prostitute, sell to your customers.
W is the going price for prostitutes.
R is a measure of your reputation.
The whole situation, seemingly so complicated, boils down to a nice partial differential equation. Here it is - a Della Giusta, Di Tommaso and Strom's rule of thumb for prostitutes. You, a prostitute, find it worthwhile to sell your services when:
[(δU/δL) / (δU/δC) Sp=0] ≤ w - [(δU/δr) / (δU/δC) S = 0]
That's the poetic, simple way of putting it. But prostitution is by tradition considered vulgar, so the team also gives a vulgar, all-words description: "An individual will start to sell prostitution if the price for selling the first amount of prostitution, minus the costs of a worsened reputation for doing so, exceeds the shadow price of leisure evaluated at zero prostitution sold."
That, in theory, is the story of prostitution.
L is the amount of leisure you have.
C is the amount of goods and services you, as a consumer, consume.
S is the amount of prostitution you, as a prostitute, sell to your customers.
W is the going price for prostitutes.
R is a measure of your reputation.
The whole situation, seemingly so complicated, boils down to a nice partial differential equation. Here it is - a Della Giusta, Di Tommaso and Strom's rule of thumb for prostitutes. You, a prostitute, find it worthwhile to sell your services when:
[(δU/δL) / (δU/δC) Sp=0] ≤ w - [(δU/δr) / (δU/δC) S = 0]
That's the poetic, simple way of putting it. But prostitution is by tradition considered vulgar, so the team also gives a vulgar, all-words description: "An individual will start to sell prostitution if the price for selling the first amount of prostitution, minus the costs of a worsened reputation for doing so, exceeds the shadow price of leisure evaluated at zero prostitution sold."
That, in theory, is the story of prostitution.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
This is the only porno that has ever turned me on.
THE BLINDNESS OF THE WOODS
The naïve simplicity of fairytales, based on Nordic erotic movies from the 1970s.
http://www.amautalab.com/works/broadcast/independent/blindness.html
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