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- Website Asks 'What's Your Price' to Go Out on a Date With Someone?
- The Day's Three Burning Legal Questions
| Website Asks 'What's Your Price' to Go Out on a Date With Someone? | Top |
| What's your price? Whatsyourprice.com (via The Faculty Lounge) believes everyone has one (a price, that is), and has built a dating website around the concept. In short, WYP breaks people into two groups: "Generous Members" and "Attractive Members." Generous Members are people who are "willing to pay to date beautiful, gorgeous or sexy people." Attractive Members are the "beautiful" ones who will "get paid while you spend time meeting fun and generous people." While this may sound like a prostitution or escort website with different nomenclature, WYP's founder Brandon Wade says that this is not the case. As noted by The Faculty Lounge, Wade told the NY Daily News that the money changing hands is only "for the opportunity of a first date -- it's a chance to allow somebody to like you more than just from an online profile or picture." Wade adds on his blog that When capitalism is mixed in with dating, all of a sudden people start concluding "it must be prostitution." But does paying money for a cup of coffee every morning mean Starbucks is engaging in prostitution? Does paying for gas every time you fill up at the gas station mean that Mobil or... | |
| The Day's Three Burning Legal Questions | Top |
| Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: Some people want to ask me personal and intrusive questions in front of approximately twenty-five observers and then vote repeatedly on whether I'm gay or non-gay until a "verdict" is reached. Can they do this? Answer: Depends on the context. For example, a maximum of two heterosexual players are permitted on a Gay Softball World Series team, so if opposing teams believe you are heterosexual number three, you may need to put up with such an inquiry. (The Volokh Conspiracy, Gay Athletic Group Has First Amendment Right to Limit the Number of Straight Players on a Team) 2) Question: A judge says I cannot purchase any food or drink from a restaurant, any cigarettes, any electronic device, any movie tickets, magazines, hiking equipment and a bunch of other things! Can he do this? Answer: Yes, if you fail to pay your child support. (New York Law Journal, Judge Drafts List of Banned Purchases for Father After His 'Egregious' Child Support Violations) 3) Question: I really want this job, but is it really necessary for me to endure my interviewer sticking needles under my... | |
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