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Ashley Mears: belief

3 Jun 2020 Conversations with Tyler Ashley Mears on Status and Beauty

“Let’s just say the more needy a woman is or the more desperate she is and she can’t afford things on her own, then I think the more likely she will be a regular participant in this world, at least for a short while until she establishes her own network, or gets a career, or her modeling career takes off, or she goes back to school.”

— Ashley Mears

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Speaker
Ashley Mears
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
3 Jun 2020
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…If some of the men are high-discount-rate men, do you think these young women are, on average, high-discount-rate young women? Mmm, I suppose yes. Let’s just say the more needy a woman is or the more desperate she is and she can’t afford things on her own, then I think the more likely she will be a regular participant in this world, at least for a short while until she establishes her own network, or gets a career, or her modeling career takes off, or she goes back to school. But it’s a world on offer for people who both want and need it. Let’s say we did an outcome study and traced the club girls 25 years later. What do you think having been a club girl would end up predicting? Having a lot of children, having no children, being happily married?…

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