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By definition, only a man may be a cheap date. This is because women sell what men must buy: sexual companionship. This is prostitution. That it is dressed up as romance or sold by pop feminists as "fun" for women (Women and Love, St. Martin's Press mass market edition, 1989, Shere Hite, p 481) makes no difference. Prostitution is the selling of sexual companionship, and women do it all the time.
This is hard on most men, who must choose between celibate frugality and spendthrift sensuality. The average date, which might include dinner, dancing or a movie, can easily cost between $50 and $100. As the average fellow earns $21,376 per year (Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1991, 111th edition, page 417, table 680.), this means he must spend between 12 and 25 percent of his weekly gross income just to get a woman to go out with him.
If we can believe television and newspaper reports, a professional prostitute may be hired for the cost of dating an amateur. Whether they do it for dollars or dates, money matters to most women.
There are many lists enumerating what women look for in men, and "makes lots of money" is seldom near the top. That's because just as most men ignore the sexuality of women over fifty, so most women ignore the sexuality of men who, either for financial or personal reasons, are unable to pay the cover fee necessary to get their attention. Thus, to qualify as a man in the sexual scene, men must have either money or macho.
This means every woman who selects her dates on the basis of how much a man can spend, rather than on how much she likes him as a person, is a prostitute. And if she doesn't "deliver" (have sex with him), then she is the cheap date.
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