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Excerpt from this article in Forbes about the ecomics of prostitution:

Economists have been equating money and marriage ever since Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker published his seminal paper “A Theory of Marriage” in two parts in 1973 and 1974 …

Becker allowed nonmonetary elements, like romantic love and companionship, to be entered into courtship’s profit and loss statement. And children, in particular, were important. “Sexual gratification, cleaning, feeding and other services can be purchased, but not children: Both the man and the woman are required to produce their own children and perhaps to raise them,” he wrote.

But back to whores: Edlund and Korn admit that spouses and streetwalkers aren’t exactly alike.

Read the whole article, it’s interesting.

But I just wanted to note how (pleasantly) surprised I was to read something with this tone in a publication as established as Forbes. Anytime a writer can manage to get the phrase “But back to whores” into an article, you know there is some serious talent behind what you’re reading.

I don’t know if it’s a trend (well-established pubs letting more humor and voice into their stuff), but if it is, I’d have to argue it must be connected to the kind writing you see on less noteworthy publications and blogs on the internet.

It’d be interesting to see to what degree the “voice” of traditional media channels has been influenced by the flood of voices competing with them from every corner of the Web.