It Was Great Not Getting to Know You

by R.K. West

Years ago, a man I knew through work told me that he occasionally paid for sex – but not by hiring escorts or picking up prostitutes on street corners. In his job, he sometimes met women who were facing financial difficulties, and he would take them to dinner and then offer them money to come to a hotel for sex with him. There wasn't anything obviously weird about this guy. He had a good job and a pleasant face and looked healthy and clean, with excellent grammar and manners. I said, "Surely you don’t need to do that, when there must be lots of women who would like to be involved with you." His answer was, "I don't have time to cultivate relationships."

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