Indecent Proposal...
By twoey68
@twoey68 (13627)
United States
August 24, 2009 7:11am CST
I’m sure most of us have seen or heard about the movie Indecent Proposal. It’s basically about a couple that are building their dream home and become financially strapped. They go to Vegas to try to win the money and end up meeting a billionaire that offers the couple a million dollars for one night with the woman. The couple decides she should do it, she does and that one night just about destroys them.
It got me to thinking. In a “what if” situation, what if you found yourself offered the same opportunity? What if your partner encouraged you to do it? Could you do the one night stand and live with yourself afterwards or would you refuse? Could you spend a night of intimacy with someone and not have feelings for them? If you wouldn’t do it for a million, would you do it for 5 millions dollars, 10, 20, 50 million dollars? Where is your line?
I’d like to be able to say that I’d never do anything like that and that there’s no price that would make me change my mind but to be honest, if my Hubby was ok with it and we were talking 50 million dollars…well, who’s to say.
What about you????
[b]**AT PEACE WITHIN**
~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~[/b]
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27 responses
@mcelhenney (481)
• United States
25 Aug 09
I am a widow now,so there would be no objection in that respect..AS for me I am afraid that I am to old for something like that now,but if I was not ,who's to say.It sure would hard be hard to turn it down.One million or fifty million it would be the same.
@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
25 Aug 09
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You've reminded me of a conversation 2 Hollyweird people (supposedly really) had back in the 30's. The actor asked the actress if she'd sleep with him. She slapped him & spit out, "No!"
Unppreturbed, he asked, "Well, would you sleep with me for a million dollars?"
"Well, sure!" she said, & smiled coyly at him.
He spoke again. "Well, the, would you sleep with me for...say...a 100 dollars?"
She slapped him again, harder, & said, "Certainly not! What kind of a woman do you think I am?!"
He replied, famously, "I thought we'd already established that...now we're just haggling over the price!"
There's truly "nothing new under the sun," as one of the books in the Bible says,
Maggiepie
"WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?"[/b]
You've reminded me of a conversation 2 Hollyweird people (supposedly really) had back in the 30's. The actor asked the actress if she'd sleep with him. She slapped him & spit out, "No!"
Unppreturbed, he asked, "Well, would you sleep with me for a million dollars?"
"Well, sure!" she said, & smiled coyly at him.
He spoke again. "Well, the, would you sleep with me for...say...a 100 dollars?"
She slapped him again, harder, & said, "Certainly not! What kind of a woman do you think I am?!"
He replied, famously, "I thought we'd already established that...now we're just haggling over the price!"
There's truly "nothing new under the sun," as one of the books in the Bible says,
Maggiepie
"WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?"[/b]1 person likes this
@mcelhenney (481)
• United States
26 Aug 09
maggiepie,Thank you for your comment..
"Who's birthday certificate"
"Your's or mine"
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
25 Aug 09
I wouldn't ever consider it. Questions would come to my mind such as why the person is offering to do that. Are they just a nice person or is there something that they aren't saying? Do they have an STD or do they plan to murder me? or go after my fiance? I wouldn't do it, no matter what. Money isn't an object to us, we use our money carefully, and we are already planning in ways to spend our money wisely and save as well.
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@tamarafireheart (15384)
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24 Aug 09
Hi twoey68,
i don't think I could do that for any amount of money, I think I'd rather starve, it least I'd have my dignity and not cheapen myself for money. Money isen't everything.
Tamara
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
25 Aug 09
[b]Brava, Tam. Finally, one of the few here who gets it about real love!
When I love, it's total. No-one else even tempts me; I'm just not interested! And how much less valuable is mere money!And I say that, by the way, as a person who isn't really even scraping by money-wise, lately. If God blessed me with a truly loving mate, I'd walk through hell to keep from hurting him!
I had a great example. I saw my parents live in our car by a stream, & in an abandoned house during a steel strike in western PA when I was a kid. Neither of them complained about the hardships. They just worked to make the best of it. Other examples, too many to list, come to mind.
Money is just so much ugly, dark paper compared to the light of real love. I feel truly sad for those who've never known it. Anyone who thinks they could do such a thing as willingly, even if reluctantly, wh*re one's self out...doesn't know love.
I'm so happy I have loved & been loved, & am loved. It's my sincere prayer for all here who even toyed in jest with this ugly notion that they are granted the joy of complete love.
Maggiepie
"WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?"[/b]
@rocketj1 (6955)
• United States
24 Aug 09
There would not be a lot of pride for me in the way the money was earned. You have to know that people would ask how you became rich and it would be a very regretful question to answer for me. No thanks. By the way, I would feel even worse about the whole thing if my hubby had "no problem with it". Am I a commodity?
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@TLChimes (4822)
• United States
24 Aug 09
Today.... Yes I could do it. For any amount ending in million. (no less) For my kids sake.
We have enough money to make it till tomorrow afternoon.... after that we won't have fuel to run the lights, to get to work, or therapies. We run out of milk today, bread too.
While I will get us through (we always do), I am tired. I'm tired of having to squeak by on nothing. I'm tired of having to pick and choose what medicine to pick up. I'm tired of having to dump water on my 2 year old's head because I can't afford a cooling vest and it gets hot. I'm simply tired. I'm usually strong but everyone gets tired and it's my turn.
So if someone offered me (or my hubby) more then a million bucks for my company for a night..... you bet I could do it. It would make his life, and the kids so much better that I wouldn't think twice.
Ask me tomarrow and it might be different.... though I think it would be the same.
@BarBaraPrz (45584)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
24 Aug 09
A wet towel on the back of the neck is a good way of cooling down.
@TLChimes (4822)
• United States
24 Aug 09
It is.... but he won't leave it there.... towels bother him and textures are an issue. I made him a cooling scarf which is great but doesn't work as well as the vest would. It doesn't keep his body functiong as it should. He can't sweat so he over heats.
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
25 Aug 09
Huggggs for you Chimes.
That makes sad reading.
I hope something is just around the corner to brighten things up and spur you on!
@slickcut (8141)
• United States
24 Aug 09
I cannot see myself doing a thing like that at all....I do understand though that if a person is strapped for money & in a severe bind that it could happen..I don't think i could do anything like that, however until you are faced with that situation it would be hard to say what you would or would not do...
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@maezee (41997)
• United States
24 Aug 09
I would most definitely do it. Opportunities like that... are hard to come by. I would do it for my family. I don't think that made her a tramp, like that first responder mentioned. They were desperate for money and she took an amazing opportunity presented to her by this millionaire guy. She was doing it, essentially, for her family and so that she could support her family. It's just unfortunate that it ended up ruining their marraige.
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@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
28 Aug 09
I do not think I would want to do that for any reason. but if the situation were to arise, who knows. I do not what to comprmise my pricaipals of feidity to my wife even if it was the other way around. Question on my mind woudl be if would were to agree, whould you get the money? shady deals do occor.
@PeacefulWmn9 (10420)
• United States
24 Aug 09
Wow, Twoey. What a thought-provoking question. Ok, to be absolutely honest, given the conditions you've mentioned, I MIGHT be very tempted. But...I would have so many qualms about it. And what about afterward? Would you and your spouse really be okay with it? Would it drive you apart as it did the couple in the movie? God knows, it would be on both minds for a long long time.
In the movie, the couple eventually reunited. I just do not know if, for me it would be worth hurting someone I loved.
As I said, it would be tempting, but I honestly do not know if I could actually go through with it for any amount of money.
Karen1 person likes this
@anniefannie (1737)
• United States
29 Aug 09
i liked the movie very much it was long time ago but the man would have to be out of this world for me to sleep with him and i would have to need the money very very much and i would have to be mad at my husband.lol
@AmbiePam (85676)
• United States
26 Aug 09
I wouldn't do it. For any amount of money. I'm sure some people would say, yeah right. Like I'd change my mind if the opportunity presented itself. But I know I wouldn't. Doesn't mean I'm better than anyone, but I can say for sure I wouldn't. I'd then spend a lot of time wishing for money I didn't have. And if my partner tried to persuade me to, then he wouldn't be my partner for much longer. 
@scarlet_woman (23465)
• United States
25 Aug 09
1.it'd have to be a lot
2.i'd want a full spectrum STD test with a lag time for possible incubation
(some take a while to manifest)
3.contraception failure clause
that's the only way i'd even consider something like that.
@walijo2008 (4644)
• United States
26 Aug 09
I don't think I would do it, as they say money doesn't buy happiness, and If I did something like that I don't think I would ever be happy especially with myself, no matter if I had the 50 million dollars or whatever, and I don't think my marriage would be the same either. So no, I wouldn't do it for no amount of money, because I think it would cause problems in the long run.
@celticeagle (159451)
• Boise, Idaho
28 Aug 09
I couldn't do it! I would want the money and the opportunity to sleep with the cutie in the movie (just kidding--i think!) but I couldn't do it. And, knowing my luck, the entire event would come back to haunt me in the form of my husband getting upset later on down the road.
@deejean06 (1952)
• United States
28 Aug 09
Hi twoey...I have seen the movie and although the couple reconciles I think there is always an underlying feeling of betrayal from the adultery. Although I've never been in that kind of a situation, I don't think I could have a one night stand no matter what the monetary reward would be and I don't think my husband would do it either. I think something like that would destroy a marriage just as many adulterous relationships do without the money factor.
@dlr297 (5409)
• United States
25 Aug 09
I do not think that i could live with myself knowing that i broke my vows to my husband even if he was ok with it. We all need money to live and having a lot of it would be nice. but i think my husband is more important to me, and i would not let anything get in the way of that. It is easy to say you would agree with it before it happens but it is a different story when i comes down to doing it.
