Tag: pimping

  • -1 Econ 101: The Sex and Love Edition

    10 months ago

    Marina Adshade in Dollars and Sex

    This blog is for everyone who sat through a first-year economic class wondering why their professor couldn’t come up with better examples than guns and butter and for teachers of economics who would like their students to periodically look up from their phones. Here I explain basic economic terms ... Read More

  • Dominique-strauss-kahn-president What Happens When Hotels Are Also Brothels?

    12 months ago

    Marina Adshade in Dollars and Sex

    Apparently, I am the only person not surprised by the alleged events that took place in Sofitel Hotel in New York City that lead to Dominique Strauss Kahn’s arrest. My lack of surprise has nothing to do with the man in question, but rather stems from my time, as a teenager, working as a chamber ... Read More

  • Sp_1309_clip06 Confessions of a College Pimp

    over 1 year ago

    Marina Adshade in Dollars and Sex

    A few weeks ago, when we were talking about educated lap dancers, I wondered if any of my students were paying their way through school working in the sex trades. At the time I had in mind lap dancers, sex workers, escorts, et cetera. I never imagined that there were students paying their way ... Read More

About Dollars and Sex

178 Posts since 2010

At Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, professor Marina Adshade teaches a popular undergraduate course called "Economics of Sex and Love," in which students apply the analytical and statistical tools available to economists to examine human sexuality. Topics in the course—which Marina will explore in this blog, too—include dating and marriage, promiscuity, infidelity, risky sexual behavior, the relation between sex and happiness, and markets for sex such as prostitution, pornography, and lap dancing.Economic theory suggests that sex makes people happy. Marina finds that economics plus sex is also very satisfying.  May this blog be as good for you as it is for her.

 

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