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Common Sense 101: Don’t tell your secrets to prostitutes
Also, don’t tell your co-workers you hire prostitutes!
I was 20 years old and at my first job. Human resources hooked me up with another newly hired engineer to car pool with, since we lived in the same town. The guy was from Pakistan, tall, good looking, and a fast driver.
We got along initially. Then, about 2 weeks in, on the way to work he told me about a prostitute who’d betrayed him.
He sounded really hurt.
“I told her my personal stuff,” he said. “And she used it against me!”
“Well,” I said. “She was a prostitute, right?”
“That’s what makes it worse,” he said. “We had sex. So how could she betray me like that?”
I didn’t know how to respond. Was the guy being serious? Even as a naive 20 year old, I knew better. This guy was at least a few years older than me. He’d traveled, he came from a wealthy family. I expected him to be more worldly.
Who doesn’t know that you don’t spill your secrets to a prostitute? When you have sex with someone you pay for that privilege, guess what, it’s not a relationship. The sex is not a sign of trust or intimacy or any of that. It’s a financial transaction.
