Womanomics

Some lovely comments below on Fettucine Flop have required me to calculate numerically some of the economics of the quest for sexual relations. Seriously Roger Kerr needs to do a Roundtable Paper on this subject with the objective of giving women a tax-deduction for such expenses.

What men do not understand is that most women of all cultures spend a ridiculous amount of their disposable income trying to impress men or psych out other women.

I refer you to an article in Granny recently titled:

Going Dutch in Russia




This article explains the brilliance of a Russian woman's mind. She refuses to pay her share even though she can now afford to because she spends her money looking good for men. She is hedging being dumped so needs to stay attractive not necessarily for her current man but to be attractive for any future man:

"Women spend most of their money on looking beautiful for their man; and in fact, for all men. Even if we're happily married, it's in our genes to compete for men and male attention."

Russian women generally do this very very well and I don't see any men in New Zealand complaining about the standard of Russian women currently residing in New Zealand. In fact they frequently comment that New Zealand women should be more like Russian women. Lovely. Now lets see the under-waged paupers finance it.

Oxana is somewhat of a modern day hero-ine in my comic book:

But many Russian women would not even consider dating a man who earned less money than them. "I would not feel safe," says Oxana, a 28-year-old marketing manager, reflecting on the prospect of having a pauper for a boyfriend.

So lets run some basic (conservative) numbers of items that New Zealand men seem to not really bother with themselves...

Hair monthly (basic not "hair extensions") $300 per month = $3600
Waxing and other beauty treatments $100 per month = $1200
Massage, pedicures etc $100 per month = $1200
Make-up/skin cleansers/toners and moisturisers = $300
Annual clothing spend on clothes you only wear out to meet men or with your man = $3000
Personal trainer/gym fees/education and reading material = $300 per month = $3600
Shoes. I consider it compulsory to spend lots of money on fabulous shoes = $2000
Phone calls/Drinks/lunches and dinners with girlfriends to drown your sorrows of bad relationships ie. therapy = $500 per month = $6000
Condoms & contraceptive pills (because lets face it - men over 30 years old totally suck at carrying rubbers) = $400 annually
Sex toys (again men have no clue so girls have to buy - Kiwigirl I am calling you out, you can add a zero here) = $500 annually
Pregnancy and STD checks (compulsory for anyone with half a brain and lets face it - the man doesn't have to worry about being pregnant in the morning) = $250 per annum

So my rough estimation is a cost of $22,050 annually spent on looking and feeling good in the most part for men.

(Single) women, please do your own stats and let me know what you come up with.

If a woman divides that cost by the number of different nights she has sex in a year, then you get the cost of that one time of getting your leg over. At once a week on average you are looking at a whopping $424 a session. If a man complains about what having a woman interested costs (as opposed to just hiring a hooker for the sex) then this is the reverse as this is the true cost for a woman of keeping a man interested (as opposed to spending nothing to look and feel good and just hiring a male hooker for sex).

So men, next time you take a single woman to dinner with the intent of asking her home afterwards, don't ask her to split the bill.

Just shut the fuck up and pay.

Update: - Ex-Expat has done the sums for the worst event of all - being the +1 at a work function.