Sign of Hard Times: Discount Sexy Time

Richard Pryor had a bit as Mudbone where he talked about "Hard Times". He said "It didn't even have a year, its was just HARD TIMES."

In hard economic times, you have to do what you can to make end meet. But American businesses are nothing but resilient. The Bar Louie across the street has half off Mondays. The Starbucks is offering a latter and muffin special. And now the latest business to try and make it work during hard times, Sybaris Pool Suites.

Much like Escorts offer “a girlfriend experience” and Strippers are “Professional Exotic Dancers”, Sybaris Pool Suites is a hotel for “Romantic Getaways”, complete with whirlpools in the rooms and a sex swing. It’s where you can go and get your freak on with that special someone, or that special someone for the night.

But hard times are apparently hitting Sybaris, if my e-mail is to believed. Sybaris is slashing their whirlpool room rates by 40%. A room with a Majestic Swimming Pool was $329 and $239 (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Nights). I don’t want to make it sound like this e-mail was begging, but they were discounting everything. It just stopped short of saying “All the rooms with a sex swing must GO!! "

It’s getting worse for the sex industry. In Nevada there is a law going through the legislature regarding charging a $5 per sex act tax, on prostitutes. That is surely to drive down the income of Nevada brothels. “Johns” will now ponder whether it's worth that extra five bucks to get tied up AND spanked, or just spanked.

Hope this tax does not drive them to point that brothels in Germany have gotten to. Due to hard times, their brothels are offering specials to get men back into their bedrooms. One is offering an all you can eat buffet, while another invites you bring along “the wife and kids”. By the way bringing your kids along to visit your local sex worker just makes good sense. My fondest childhood memory is watching my father having his nipples twisted by a gimp. No child should be denied that.

So if there are any doubts left, we are in a Recession people. Everyone is just going to have to make do. I say this, and I have no degree in economics and no idea how the economy works. The only way to get ourselves out of this is not to save, its to spend. And when I say spend, I mean PAY FOR SEX.

That is trickle down economics.

Jason