Money Sex can be exchanged for goods and services!

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In 2000, when Stephanie Gerson (then 19) found herself in Brazil she decided she wanted to go into the jungle deeper than any tour would take her. So she did the logical thing: flirted with the resort bus boy and arranged to have him take her on a private two week tour of the jungle in exchange for sex.

The world's oldest profession is prostitution, which has ensnared many a politician. While in many places the exchange of sex for cash is illegal, researchers found that people commonly trade sex for other items. One study by the University of Michigan found that 27% of men and 14% of women had previously attempted to have sex outside of a relationship for a benefit. The catch? The people queried were all college students who wanted for nothing. Daniel Kruger, a research scientist, was shocked. "It's remarkable to find these patterns in the students in the study. We have seen many examples where people do this out of necessity, but we still see these tendencies in people who are already provided for." This lead him to suggest that such behaviors are part of humanities genetic makeup.

As for Stephanie Gerson? She says it worked out well in her case. "It was a good barter both ways," she says. "I got to stay in the jungle, and he got to have sex with a cute, young American girl."