"WhatsYourPrice" or: Can you buy love?
Dear "WhatsYourPrice" Maker,
You soon realized that online dating is a difficult thing. Singles have to look at countless profiles in dating exchanges and write to many people in the vague hope that someone will write back. If you have climbed this hurdle, maybe you are talking to the person in your dream to finally have a date. Whether that is successful, however - uncertain. Phew, really, that's exhausting.
You wanted to change that. If everything in life can be optimized - why not Amor's love master plan? As a joker you have used what people strive for besides love - for money!
Therefore, in 2011 you started your online dating platform WhatsYourPrice in the USA. Participants are divided into "generous members" and "attractive members". The generous offer the attractive money for a date, from 5 to 100 euros. The attractive ones can accept, negotiate or reject this. According to your own statements, the "generous" are often men and the "attractive" are mostly women. Which is not predetermined. Now the platform has arrived in Europe. You say that there are already 5713 registrations in Germany. The average German price for a date is 68 euros and "attractive members" receive about eight offers per week. Around 800,000 members are registered worldwide.
The idea is not new. Paying for a date with subsequent sexual climax already has a name: Escort. But, you certainly throw in at this point, "WhatsYourPrice" does not want to convey sex. You even forbid that explicitly. It's all about giving all the online dating desperate men a greater chance of dating and women replacing their costs. After all, she often has to resort to makeup and new clothes in her wallet. "We have developed a dating system that allows generous members to incentivize their counterparts to get a first date," said WhatsYourPrice EU spokeswoman Angela Jacob Bermudo.
One question you do not answer: why should paid dates run better than unpaid ones? That love can not be bought has already been praised by the super earners of the "Beatles" with "Can not buy me love". That's why "WhatsYourPrice" is more likely to earn attractive women a bit of money through dating, and men hire a pretty woman to portray in public. One that does not run away - because it pays - and that nobody will expose as a prostitute.
It may be that one or the other relationship finds money through the detour, but true love still remains priceless.
