OhLaLa - why dating is about to become an even bigger financial boon for women!

[LJ_Reloaded]

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/14/12183012/ohlala-paid-dating-app-berlin-pia-poppenreiter-uber

Launched in August 2015, Ohlala is a web-based app that facilitates what it calls "instant paid dating." Male users post offers for dates, consisting of a time, a duration, and how much money they’re willing to pay — a typical offer is from 1–4 hours at an average price of $300. While the request is up, women can decide whether or not they’d like that person to be able to contact them. Crucially, women are not visible to men before they initiate conversation — it’s the inverse of the backpage listings to which it’s often compared. Here, the buyers must come forward first. From there, the couple can chat and discuss the whens and wheres of their impending dates, as well as a payment method and their boundaries, if they so please. (In-app payment is currently in the works, the team tells me.) When the terms are agreed upon, the chat is logged, and presumably both parties are incentivized to show up. Though its on-demand model has earned Ohlala the label "Uber for escorts," the company insists it isn’t an escort agency, or even operating in the adult entertainment space.

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In Poppenreiter’s vision, Ohlala is an app for any woman who thinks she ought to be compensated for her time and efforts when she goes out with someone. It seeks to turn leisure time — a precious, dwindling commodity — into billable hours. In that sense, Poppenreiter’s right: her app isn’t really an "Uber for escorts." It’s a TaskRabbit for emotional labor. Perhaps that makes it more radical than anything else — with its tasteful design and young, hip founder, Ohlala suggests a world in which there’s no "kind of woman" who sells her time and affection, because every woman could be that kind of woman.

In 10 years most Western women will be using this app. The concept of love will finally receive the burial it deserves. I need to invest in her company, this app is going to be worth billions.

 

[Rachel_X]

I don't see how this would help me.
Unless I'm planning to lure a few idiots into a mugging.

 

[Pairaclities]

I don't see how this would help me.
Unless I'm planning to lure a few idiots into a mugging.

There is no shortage of idiots.
Ref. The OP

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

I don't see how this would help me.
Unless I'm planning to lure a few idiots into a mugging.

You can charge a man $600 just to go on a date with you. Muggings are as optional as sex.

Or better yet you can do that, and also invest in the company.

This will transform dating in the West. (Though not in a good way.)