{"id":931,"date":"2006-04-05T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/all_this_proves_is_that_craigs_list_is_full_of_stupid_shit_that_nobody_wants.html"},"modified":"2006-04-05T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T20:40:10","slug":"all_this_proves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/all_this_proves.html","title":{"rendered":"All This Proves Is That Craig&#8217;s List Is Full Of Stupid Shit That Nobody Wants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News unsuccessfully tries to establish a rent-for-sex trend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/crime_file\/story\/406044p-343830c.html\">despite the many ads on Craig&#8217;s List offering such deals<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Though offering shelter for sex has probably existed since the cavemen era, never before has it been advertised so openly or explicitly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All I am looking for is a [sic] attractive, playful, and submissive woman who is uninhibited to my proposal &#8230; substituting rent for sexual encounters,&#8221; reads one Craigslist ad, titled, &#8220;Are You a Submissive Female and Want to Live Rent F.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the posting, the 33-year-old man living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, adds that the room comes with a TV, DVD player, an Internet-ready computer and a phone line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t need the rent but would like to fill it up with a woman who would love to show her appreciation for my generosity,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily News contacted the authors of several of the salacious online posts, but received no replies.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does anyone believe this actually exists? On the other hand, the armchair anthropologist in me is quite curious about this supposed shelter-for-sex exchange among cavemen, since it wasn&#8217;t portrayed like that at all in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082484\/\">Quest for Fire<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News unsuccessfully tries to establish a rent-for-sex trend, despite the many ads on Craig&#8217;s List offering such deals: Though offering shelter for sex has probably existed since the cavemen era, never before has it been advertised so openly or explicitly. &#8220;All I am looking for is a [sic] attractive, playful, and submissive woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real_estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}