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CNN ^ | 8/25/2008 | Michelle Goodman

Posted on 08/25/2008 7:49:49 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA

(LifeWire) -- While she was studying in Brazil during college, the one thing Stephanie Gerson longed to do before leaving was spend time in the thick of the Amazon rain forest. Unfortunately, she couldn't find a tour that would take her past the forest's edge.

Survey at college finds 27 percent of men and 14 percent of women willing to trade favors or gifts for sex.

So, when a college-aged busboy at a resort she was visiting began flirting with her, she asked him if he thought a tourist could survive alone in the jungle.

"He laughed and told me I was nuts," says Gerson, 27, who works part-time in online marketing for a chocolate company in San Francisco.

Then he told her that he'd grown up in the jungle in a nearby indigenous community. That was all Gerson needed to hear. Although she wasn't attracted to the guy, Gerson flirted right back in the hopes that he would be her jungle tour guide. It worked. The busboy wormed his way out of work, and the two headed into the rain forest.

"It was amazing," Gerson says of her adventure in 2000. "We built our homes out of palm leaves, I saw animals I'd never seen before, he taught me the medicinal properties of all the plants, we picked fruit off the trees, we swam with and ate piranhas. And, of course, we had sex ... for almost two weeks."

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What is the world coming to?
1 posted on 08/25/2008 7:49:49 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

Somehow appropriate that this story takes place in a jungle.


2 posted on 08/25/2008 7:54:02 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Sounds like it’s headed back to it’s primordial roots to me.


3 posted on 08/25/2008 7:54:29 AM PDT by SengirV
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To: Red in Blue PA

“...we swam with and ate piranhas...”

Thats nasty...she probably will vote Omama


4 posted on 08/25/2008 7:54:29 AM PDT by forYourChildrenVote4Bush (Today, July 16th I no longer donate money for Israel)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Wasn’t promiscuity a trait of furute individials in Huxley’s Brave New World?


5 posted on 08/25/2008 7:55:02 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: Red in Blue PA

furute=future


6 posted on 08/25/2008 7:55:27 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Like people have never scr*wed around before. What’s somewhat novel is their bragging about it to CNN.

I don’t believe the rain forest story, though. Have you read P.J. O’Rourke’s article about Peru?


7 posted on 08/25/2008 7:55:37 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Obama: Can't kill the innocent fast enough, can't free the guilty soon enough!~ Diana in WI)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Post Christian era followed by return to Neolithic values.


8 posted on 08/25/2008 7:55:41 AM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: Red in Blue PA

For years we have devalued sex, love and women. We have made sex a a commodity. So now, people are surprised? I’m not.


9 posted on 08/25/2008 7:56:13 AM PDT by Hildy ("We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.")
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To: Red in Blue PA
What is the world coming to?

Same as it ever was, in fact. Although I'm surprised that only 27% of the men would give away sex for favors, as most college aged men seem to be quite willing to give it away for nothing.

10 posted on 08/25/2008 7:56:21 AM PDT by Maceman (If you're not getting a tax cut, you're getting a pay cut.)
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To: Tax-chick

Easier than writing her name on thousands of bathroom walls...


11 posted on 08/25/2008 7:56:52 AM PDT by nodumbblonde
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To: Red in Blue PA
What is the world coming to?

My personal observation is that women and men are getting a lot more mercenary with respect to sex/compensation etc ....

12 posted on 08/25/2008 7:57:46 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (Define yourself by what you do, not by your ideology, belief, origins, genitals, etc ....)
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To: Red in Blue PA

WHAT???? Women are willing to use sex to get what they want?????? Shocking! Shocking I tell you!! /S


13 posted on 08/25/2008 7:57:56 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

Hope she visited her GYN to eliminate any other type of piranahs.../sarc


14 posted on 08/25/2008 7:58:26 AM PDT by Global2010 (Be Well)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Shocking! A liberal woman AND a whore. Never thought the two were inclusive of each other.

< /mega sarc>

15 posted on 08/25/2008 7:59:22 AM PDT by lormand ("If I were Putin, I would have done the same" - "Conservative" talk show host Michael Savage)
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To: nodumbblonde

Good point. I didn’t see her phone number in the article, but with her name, location, and occupation, I’m sure some guys looking for an easy woman with some mileage on her will find it.


16 posted on 08/25/2008 7:59:37 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Obama: Can't kill the innocent fast enough, can't free the guilty soon enough!~ Diana in WI)
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To: Maceman

Re: Same as it ever was, in fact.

Disagree on this. I believe it is more of a statement on our culture. Been to other cultures and the young girls do not act as they do here.


17 posted on 08/25/2008 8:01:14 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: HamiltonJay

I believe what is shocking (to me at least) is that a good percentage are not ashamed of their actions and will actually talk about openly.


18 posted on 08/25/2008 8:03:05 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
What is the world coming to?

Well...

19 posted on 08/25/2008 8:03:47 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Don't steal. Big Government hates competition.)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Re: Survey at college finds 27 percent of men and 14 percent of women willing to trade favors or gifts for sex.

Gadzooks! I'd put that percentage in Denver this week at 97% for Liberal Democrat men and 93% for Liberal Democrat women who, if truth be told, are generally too damn ugly to have sex with by any self respecting Conservative Republican.


20 posted on 08/25/2008 8:03:55 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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