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FACT: Prostitution helped kill the $2 bill. In the early 1900s,...

FACT: Prostitution helped kill the $2 bill. In the early 1900s, when the government was still trying to push the $2 bill (aka the American Toonie), the going rate for a prostitute was, coincidentally enough, $2 a night. (These days, you can still find deals like that, but you'd better have a raging stretch mark fetish.)

Eventually, $2 bills became associated with prostitution… so guys who were carrying them were roped in as johns, whether fairly or not. It's kind of like today when an athlete decided to go to USC, we assume he's making a great salary there, whether it's true or not.

That tainted the $2 bill and, while that alone didn't kill it, it helped stigmatize it and make it less popular. (Although the $2 bill is still alive. According to The Government, as of April 2007, there were $1.549 billion worth of $2 bills still in circulation.)

FACT: About 80,000 other actresses were asked to play the lead...

FACT: About 80,000 other actresses were asked to play the lead in "Pretty Woman" before Julia Roberts. Apparently, Julia Roberts was just about the last actress in the world that the producers wanted for "Pretty Woman". I think it must've come down to her and Paula Poundstone.

Here's the list of actresses who have been linked to the role of Vivian: Molly Ringwald; Uma Thurman; Sarah Jessica Parker; Brooke Shields; Drew Barrymore; Jodie Foster; Kristen Davis; Winona Ryder; Daryl Hannah; Meg Ryan; Kim Basinger; Kathleen Turner; Debra Winger; Geena Davis; Carrie Fisher; Bo Derek; Kelly McGillis; Melanie Griffith; Sharon Stone; Michelle Pfeiffer; Madonna; Jamie Lee Curtis; Emma Thompson; Rosanna Arquette; Heather Lockear; Jennifer Jason Leigh; Joan Cusack; Phoebe Cates; Elisabeth Shue; Tatum O'Neal; Bridget Fonda; Lori Loughlin; Diane Lane; Valeria Golino; Sandra Bullock; Jennifer Connelly; and Justine Bateman.

In other words: Every single actress working at the time who was even remotely attractive.

(Also, apparently, Albert Brooks, Sylvester Stallone, John Travolta, Al Pacino and Christopher Reeve were all linked to Edward before Richard Gere. Can you imagine Sylvester Stallone shutting the jewelry box on Joan Cusack's fingers?)

MYTH: An undercover cop picking up a hooker has to identify...

MYTH: An undercover cop picking up a hooker has to identify himself as a cop if you ask. Whenever you see a hooker in a movie or on TV, as soon as a guy picks her up she asks: "You a cop?" (He never is, so she gets in the car, and then they inevitably get busted by the actual cops. How often does someone pick up a cop in a movie/TV show and not get arrested? One out of every 1,000?)

Unfortunately for real prostitutes, that's based off an urban legend. Cops NEVER have to identify themselves or tell the truth in any situation. It's part of the deal.

This also doesn't constitute entrapment, because that only covers when a cop leads someone in to an illegal activity they wouldn't have gotten into without the cop's involvement.

It gets a little dicier when a cop poses as a prostitute to bust potential johns, since that could constitute entrapment. The cop still doesn't have to identify his or herself if you ask… but, if they approach you first and ask if you're looking for a good time, sugar, a decent lawyer might be able to get you off the hook.

commencer a rendre la monnaie. French for an older prostitute...

commencer a rendre la monnaie.
French for an older prostitute (literal: when she started, she didn't have to make change for the money she received)

According to the movie "Orgazmo" — which is a documentary and totally factually accurate, of course — as porn stars become older, in order to make the same money they used to, they have to start doing weirder and weirder stuff. Which is why you rarely see any fresh-off-the-corn-field 18-year-old porn starlets debuting in octopus-oriented films.

avoir la moule qui baille. French for to be horny (literal: to...

avoir la moule qui baille.
French for to be horny (literal: to have a yawning mussel)

I mean, that's just incredible crude. Although "yawning mussel" is much more descriptive than "whispering eye" or "clown pocket."

aki ga tatsu. Japanese for falling out of love (literal: the...

aki ga tatsu.
Japanese for falling out of love (literal: the autumn breeze begins to blow)

There's something so formally poetic about Japanese. These kinds of phrases put all of their awkward translations into much better context. (I once did a list on the 11 Worst Japanese-To-English Translations In Nintendo History. Knowing that they describe falling out of love as "the autumn breeze begins to blow" adds a bit more context to "This story is happy end" and "A winner is you.")

Cavoli riscaldati. Italian for attempting to restart a...

Cavoli riscaldati.
Italian for attempting to restart a previously failed relationship (literal: reheated cabbage)

I think "reheated cabbage" perfectly sums up getting back together with someone. The cabbage tastes much worse than it did when it was fresh cabbage… and as soon as you take one bite that's a little bit sour, suddenly you remember exactly why you stopped eating that cabbage in the first place.

John Holmes, ~14,000. Holmes was in at least 2,200 pornos, and...

John Holmes, ~14,000. Holmes was in at least 2,200 pornos, and estimated that between those and his generally sexy social life he had 14,000 partners. (Well, actually 13,895.) A pornography historian — how does that look on LinkedIn? — estimates it was really more like 3,000. He IS the only person on this list to die from an STD, though… so, um, credibility?

Some strippers have been in it for decades. The median age is...

Some strippers have been in it for decades. The median age is between 23 and 24… but some strippers slug it out WAY longer than that. The five-year mark is usually the point-of-no-return of stripping… get out then, or buy stock in a company that manufactures nine-inch heels.

The breakdown at any given moment in time is about 12 percent of strippers are rookies in their first year… 55 percent have been there one to five years… 19 percent have been there five to nine years… six percent have been there 10 to 20 years… and eight percent of grizzled old veterans have been there more than 20 years. Twenty years! By that point you've probably inhaled a bushel's worth of glitter AND could identify "Cherry Pie" on "Name That Tune" in two notes.

One-in-three strippers really *are* putting themselves through...

One-in-three strippers really *are* putting themselves through college. It's an old joke that every stripper says she's just doing it to put herself through school. Even the really old one who'd even Gabrielle Carteris would look at and say, "Yeah, no way she's college age."

A study found that 33 percent are, in fact, telling you the truth: It's college by day, stripping by night. (With no time left over to fight crime. 0 percent are confirmed superheroes.)

girls just wanna have fun

girls just wanna have fun

The 75 skills every man should MASTER in their lifetime

The 75 skills every man should MASTER in their lifetime

From her daily devotional good morning ,she wishes Him a perfect...

From her daily devotional

good morning ,she wishes Him a perfect day

filled with all the things it takes to bring Him

happiness ,a sense of accomplishment and pleasure.

 

she uses the word precious brcause that how You

are to me.. You have shown me more in this short

time than any man/Dominant has ever shown to me.

 

Your Dominance ,the man You are, have opened doors

that i though had been hammered shut by careless

users of my emotions .men who had to take

from me in order to make themselves feel more powerful.

they feared my self worth ,they feared the fact that i am

strong and self reliant. as if my being strong made them

weak somehow.

 

 You my Precious One like the fact that i can think and

that i am able to understand that while my Masters needs are

the most important thing…that they are not the only

thing. You give praise more often than harsh words and

You enjoy my ability to be a full rounded woman  and

Your devoted submissive ..i do not in any way threaten You

by my strength. You enjoy it, understand and revel in it.

there are many reasons to call You Precious Master

these are but a few …

 

she is His kajira

He is loved

Years of personal experience, > combined with centuries of...

Years of personal experience,
> combined with centuries of cultural learning,
> have taught us the importance of holding on.
>
> We hold on to our desires
> We hold on to what we think we need.
> We hold on to what promises us happiness.
>
> We hold on to our possessions.
> We hold on to our image of who we are
> We hold on to our ideas of what is right.
>
> We hold on to our theories.
> We hold on to our beliefs.
> We hold on to our attitudes.
> We hold on to our judgements.
>
> We hold on to the past
> We hold on to the future.
>
> We hold on to our grievances.
> We hold on to our fears.
> We hold on to our loves
> We hold on to our lovers.
>
> We hold on to money.
>
> We hold on to our thoughts.
> We hold on to our illusions.
>
> We hold on to our gods.
> We hold on to our bodies.
> We hold on to our lives
>
> and I will always hold on to you

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain,...

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."
— Libba Bray

the life she craves

the life she craves

Life's sloppy. You think you know how tomorrow is going to be,...

Life's sloppy. You think you know how tomorrow is going to be, you've made your plans, everything is set in place, and then the unimaginable happens. Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it. –Susan Beth Pfeffer, This World We Live In

Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to...

Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache, so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding … –Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

What traveler doesn't know that initial unrepeatable feeling of...

What traveler doesn't know that initial unrepeatable feeling of excited, almost infatuated expectation which seizes his heart on entering a city he's never been to before? Each street and alley opens increasingly more secrets to his hungry eyes. By evening he starts to think that he's fallen in love with the city. The traveler constructs his first, truest, and henceforth unshakable impressions of the city based on the faces of the crowds on the street, the architecture of the buildings, the smell of the market, and finally the color particular to that city alone. Later, he can live in that city for a whole year, study it in every detail, and make friends. Even later, he can forget the family names of those friends and lose the conscientiously memorized details, but he'll never forget his first impressions. –Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip

We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle...

We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. We inhabit singledom as our natural resting state … Secretly, we are romantics, romantics of the highest order. We want a miracle. Our of millions we have to find the one who will understand.
     For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. On a fine but by no means transcendent date we dream of going home to watch television. We would prefer to be alone with our own thoughts than with a less than perfect fit. We are almost constitutionally incapable of casual relationships. –Sasha Cagan, To-Do List