Ride for a Ride

[Gorza]

The Dutch government has apparently approved that driving instructors can now legally accept sexual acts as payment. Brief news article here. Someone might feel inspired by this.

 

[LairOfTheCougar]

Ass, gas, grass or cash. No Free Rides!

Pretty much writes itself. Could be just an interesting entry into a straight up sex scene, "How would Madam (or Missure if one prefers) care to pay for this lesson? Cash, credit or (motions to the back room)?"

Or student's card is declined, they lost their money etc. Oh however will they pay? There is always the back room.
The general idea could be expanded to other professions.

 

[Ovidius]

So if you're good enough at cunnilingus you could get a prostitute for free?

 

[lovecraft68]

The Dutch are pretty progressive

Story wise I think if you take the reluctance or shock value of "You want me to do what" out of it the story loses its punch.

 

[LairOfTheCougar]

The Dutch are pretty progressive

Story wise I think if you take the reluctance or shock value of "You want me to do what" out of it the story loses its punch.

Yes, I quite agree. I was thinking of something along the lines of a young man of eighteen or nineteen or so, possibly a virgin, taking a driving lesson. He has his money all ready, safe and sound in his pocket. His instructor is a sweet white haired grandmotherly lady.
The lesson goes well, but at the conclusion he can't find the money! His instructor peers over the top of her glasses and looks him over from head to toe in a most ungrandmotherly way. Gently she takes his hand and leads our hero to the back room.
"Come now dearie, I haven't got all day."

Alternately switch the young man for a young lady.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Well that's not really what the story says. You can only trade sex legally if you're already a prostitute. So basically it's oddly puzzling they actually needed a law for this. Given prostitution is legal there this is really no different from dropping off a cake from your bakery instead of twenty bucks.

From a lit stand point of course the nuance isn't important but then you wander into why is the law important at all?

I think your better move here is to just have a girl who has no business getting a license convincing the tester not the instructor.

 

[Carnevil9]

I realize the OP is about driving instructors, but I think it is much more interesting to put it into a taxi/Uber kind of context. Somebody develops an app that lets people who need a ride, and are willing to put out, match up with someone who needs sex, and is willing to give them a ride for it. Talk about win-win!

 

[Sean Renaud]

Am I allowed to cede the floor to a man who's ideas are greater than my own cus I think I should.

 

[lovecraft68]

This subject reminds me of the old bumper sticker.

Gas, grass or ass no one rides for free.

 

[loquere]

I'm going back to my amnesia idea from another thread. If someone wakes up in a world where sex is a form of payment excepted everywhere like Visa is, then that's a good story. Following a character adapt to this new world of universal sexual payments would be fun.

 

[Hypoxia]

I'm going back to my amnesia idea from another thread. If someone wakes up in a world where sex is a form of payment excepted everywhere like Visa is, then that's a good story. Following a character adapt to this new world of universal sexual payments would be fun.

Might be hard figuring just what is worth what. Not just, how many doggy-fucks for a brake job? Rather, how are age and physical condition factored into value determinations? Who gets discounts or surcharges? And who tracks the transactions for tax purposes? Gotta have a fucking taxman in there.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I can't imagine there actually being much in the way of universally agreed upon rates. This is basically like when the nerd down the street agrees to fix your computer if you help him move. An exchange of goods via barter system. One could in theory attempt to quantify how much these skills are worth on the open market yadda yadda but who does that?

Friends Mom: Hey Sean, you like Irish Spaghetti right?
Sean: yeah. . .maybe we skip to the part where you tell me what you want. It's cute and all but I'm bored already.
Friends Mom: I need someone to help me move and Joe is out of town.
Sean: . . .I expect there to be French bread. In a brown paper bag.
Friends Mom: Why in a brown paper bag
Sean: Have you ever watched a movie? Everytime someone goes shopping they are obligated to have a loaf of bread too big to fit in the bag. It's a law.
Friends Mom: . . . Does anything you say actually have a point?
Sean: Not sure, looks hazy, ask again later. . .sorry I was going over what to put on my Magic 8-Ball.
Friends Mom: Fine, be there at noon.

 

[Hypoxia]

If someone wakes up in a world where sex is a form of payment excepted [accepted] everywhere like Visa is, then that's a good story. Following a character adapt to this new world of universal sexual payments would be fun.

I can't imagine there actually being much in the way of universally agreed upon rates.

For a credit-card-equivalent payment system, nominal rate structures are a must. Prices would be posted in dollars / euros / yen and in fucks / sucks / pegs, with (as I said) discounts and surcharges as appropriate. If you don't like the price, deal elsewhere.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I don't think so. I mean it's a barter not a credit equivalent. I doubt that a woman (or man, men can legally be prostitutes right? Real question.) could force an instructor to accept sex or that there would be any reprocussions to not doing so. At least in the US if you accept a given form of payment (checks, cash, credit) you're not allowed to discriminate. In this case you could simply be too tired to accept payment at this time because the last one was such a firecracker.

Regardless Kiera Knightly is clearly worth more than Hillary Clinton. Which again is why I compare it to a service, like fixing my breaks. I could go to Goodyear and pay 120, Joes and 80 or I could feel lucky and do it for 39.95 my damn self.

 

[Hypoxia]

I don't think so. I mean it's a barter not a credit equivalent. I doubt that a woman (or man, men can legally be prostitutes right? Real question.) could force an instructor to accept sex or that there would be any reprocussions to not doing so. At least in the US if you accept a given form of payment (checks, cash, credit) you're not allowed to discriminate.

Incorrect. You can legally specify that you don't accept checks, or credit cards for less than an arbitrary amount, or cash -- many govt offices won't accept cash and many businesses don't take checks.

Thus in a sex-payment economy, both client and server must agree on what form of payment is acceptable. Wave your iPay device, or flash come cash, or drop your drawers. Whatever. Negotiate prices. Be creative. Okay, five bucks and a blowjob for the interior-detailed carwash.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Incorrect. You can legally specify that you don't accept checks, or credit cards for less than an arbitrary amount, or cash -- many govt offices won't accept cash and many businesses don't take checks.

Thus in a sex-payment economy, both client and server must agree on what form of payment is acceptable. Wave your iPay device, or flash come cash, or drop your drawers. Whatever. Negotiate prices. Be creative. Okay, five bucks and a blowjob for the interior-detailed carwash.

Correct, but once you specify you do accept checks you can't decided you don't want checks from blacks of Mexicans or people who smell funny.

But negotiate prices was what we were disagreeing on so we no longer have conflict.

 

[Hypoxia]

Correct, but once you specify you do accept checks you can't decided you don't want checks from blacks of Mexicans or people who smell funny.

Oh, people discrimination. I thought you meant payment-type discrimination.

But negotiate prices was what we were disagreeing on so we no longer have conflict.

Prices for goods and services are almost always negotiable, even at chain stores, depending on the item, quantity, and promise of repeat business. (My grocer cuts a nice break on case lots.)

But in a legal sex-as-cash economy we'd start with unit prices and (for tax purposes) log the fuck. Sure, there are tax evaders -- this wouldn't work in the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain) states -- but honest tradesfolk will be suspicious that an off-the-books offer is an Infernal Revenue sting.

Smart tradespeople will post sliding scales of money vs sex, probably at less-than-retail rates -- a twenty-buck blowjob on the street may only be worth ten bucks in trade, adjusted for lip volume and number of teeth.

 

[shropshire125]

I'm going back to my amnesia idea from another thread. If someone wakes up in a world where sex is a form of payment excepted everywhere like Visa is, then that's a good story. Following a character adapt to this new world of universal sexual payments would be fun.

I'm just relating this to work. If any of you ever have to take payments as part of your work, you can just imagine yourself saying, "I'm sorry but your card has been declined." And the client saying "Can you please try it again."

Perhaps as a service provider we could just issue cards to the clients we believed qualified for sex based payments.

 

[Hypoxia]

I'm just relating this to work. If any of you ever have to take payments as part of your work, you can just imagine yourself saying, "I'm sorry but your card has been declined." And the client saying "Can you please try it again."

Perhaps as a service provider we could just issue cards to the clients we believed qualified for sex based payments.

All we need is a software mod on stores' POS terminals which now have two options: CREDIT and DEBIT. Add a third opton: CREDIT, DEBIT, SEX. Selecting SEX brings up a submenu of appropriate positions and cash equivalences. The provider can choose to accept or decline any payment method. That brake job is worth at least three blowjobs, but not with rotten teeth.

 

[sr71plt]

I think that "ride for a ride" has been a pretty well worked theme in both story and film.

 

[Hypoxia]

I think that "ride for a ride" has been a pretty well worked theme in both story and film.

And bumper stickers. "Gas, grass, or ass -- nobody rides for free." I still see that displayed, and I've seen it acted out. But that's ad-hoc barter. A sex-payment system integrated with the global economy unleashes interesting bunnies.

Hmmm, a story cycle, CREDIT, DEBIT, OR SEX: A foreign visitor unfamiliar with local customs offeris obscure payments. Counterfeiting is a problem -- intrepid Secret Service agents track perps. Jokesters hack POS terminals to require bizarre sex acts. A cabbie rigs his meter to specify anal pokes for payment. Cash-poor travelers fuck themselves around the world -- and blog the journeys. Some providers offer bulk and group discounts. Et cetera.

 

[Carnevil9]

Of course, this gives a whole new meaning to the "ATM Card."

 

[Hypoxia]

Of course, this gives a whole new meaning to the "ATM Card."

That can get unsanitary.

RFID hackers will steal data from CREDIT-DEBIT-SEX smartcards including users' sexual histories. Techies will find ways to reload the cards with false histories -- did you REALLY opt for payment-in-kind at a Tijuana donkey show? False (or true) data dumps will try to 'out' prominent folks.

This economy can't spread to lemonade stands, not on LIT. But imagine modern panhandlers. WILL FINGER / BLOW / PEG YOU FOR CREDIT reads a typical sign.