Flutterby™! :

I've been staying away from the whole Fox "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire" thing, but this Salon article on how courtship and marriage are prostitution is too good to pass up.

"The tricky part of the sex-for-money trade is that there's a slippery slope. On one end is a man sending flowers to a woman after a first date, and on the other is the prostitute and her client. In a typical dating scenario, it isn't sex for money, exactly, but it may be sex because of money -- sex because a man's behavior gives signals that he has money and is willing to spend it. It's sexy, we women often think, when a man insists on taking us out to dinner or sends flowers, when he gives jewelry, when he promises a big diamond if things work out. But we also feel it's sexy when he earns more, when he has more heft and impact in the world."