Selling Personal Porn, For Profit

IT BEGAN THE USUAL WAY. I was logged on to Facebook, for the only reasons I ever log on to Facebook, to promote this website, and to distribute negative information and opinion about conservatism, the evangelical conservative Christian community, the Republican party, and last and least, Donald J. Trump. Suddenly, as usual, a message popped up, accompanied by a photograph of the face of a beautiful young woman. The message said: "hello"... "howdy", I replied, as usual. Courtesy requires responding to pleasant greetings, including those from beautiful young women. The next comment is always the same question: "How are you?". (it happens that way every time. The standard interview has begun.). I gave my standard one word response: "well". Whenever the visitor understands my response,which is about half the time,the interview proceeds,in the usual order of questions and demands. Location? Age? Single? Married? What do you do to earn a living? Sixty eight,single. Nothing. (meaning, retired)...(I indulge them at first. It costs nothing but a few minutes,and can yield interesitng results, from the standpoint of sociological research, of course.) Then the interviews all begin to vary,taking off in their own direction, depending on the interviewer. These messages pop up between five and ten times a day. They all get to the part where they say they are looking for love, for a meangingful, long term relationship, and they think I may be the right man. What they are looking for, obviously, is money,and they intend to trick people, libidinous men, into sending it, by dangling the alluring prospect of love and sex,which, almost tragically, they seem to think is the best talent they have to offer. Money is money. This one sent me another picture, a full body shot of slender fully clothed curves, and said: "Send your pic". (They rearely ask for it, they usually demand it, and never use the word "please"). I suggested to this scam artist that she use some common courtesy,and make a request, rather than a demand. She, like all the others, chose to either ignore this suggestion, or didn't understand it. As always, I explained that I don't take pictures of myself, don't ask anyone else to, and that I care more about what people do and say than what they look like. They always respond to this with one word: "really", or "what?". This one did too. By this time most of them are asking for airfare money to facilitate their visit to me, the love of their life. This "lady" was more brazen. "Do you want to see a picture of my tits"? Sure! I respond, why not? She sends one, she on her back, fully clothed, large full breasts reaching towards the sky. "Nice tits", I say. Smart start for her; she has provided an alluring "hook", but given away nothing of real value which could bring in moneylater. "Fifty dollars for tit pictures, two hundred for pussy pictures. I have videos too". Now I have the price list, the menu if you will, and can decide. Sensing success, she aggressively intones: "Send mony now, please"..(finally, the word "please"!). "Let me think about it",I tell her. "I could buy a good porn magazine for about ten dollars", I say. She ignores this. I decide she needs a lesson in basic business managment. "I admire your entrepeneurial initiative, I say, but a good capitalist must follwow certain well accepted business principles, and must be smart, as well as hard working..."What?", she says. Red flag raised, I timidly ask her..um..do you know what capitalism is, and what a "capitalist" is? "No", she honestly confides. "Well", I begin, "capitalism is the economic system we have here in America,and, um, its where people start businesses, selling goods and services for profit, and, um"....still, she seems utterly confused. Now, I know I'm in trouble. My magnanimous desire to provde a much needed lesson in basic economics and small business management begins to seem doomed. This young lady is not close to ready for introductory Econ 101. I now realize that what she needs is probably a high school diploma, a GED, if not more basic instruction still. She goes silent,apparently less interestd in an education in business than in jumping right into her business, and letting nature take its course. Dimly bginning to sense that I am more interested in teaching than pornography, she fell silent. I truly hope that she does well with her personal pornography business, although I doubt that she will. What I said about the price of porn is undeniable. I see nothing more morally objectionable about what she is trying to do than the businesses selling cigarettes, alcohol, or cars, or those whose products pollute the environment with carbon, and are causing climate change, and hastening the collapse of the ecosystem and the extinction of all life on Earth through climate change. And, in any event, she will probably, perhpas after years of struggling with her ill fated business, learn her lesson through hard knocks, and, out of sheer desperation, get an education, a job, and, lord willing, become involved in capitalism in a more lucrative and honorable manner.