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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by kofejnik on Friday March 23, 2018 @05:37AM (#16656376)
> Hooking up for a one night stand is trivial.

Glad you've been lucky, but don't make assumptions from data set of 1. It's trivial only for the most attractive and charismatic males. OkCupid has published some nice research on it

Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by komali2 on Friday March 23, 2018 @05:53AM (#16656439)
Luckily charisma can be learned and overcome all but the most outlying unattractive.

But yea prostitution is the world's oldest profession for a reason - sometimes people just want a transactional sexual encounter. For money, one can have no "equal parts" requirement - no need to reciprocate. It's not for everyone (or for me) but I can understand the attraction.