Background:

Women trade sex for shelter in cities with high costs of living.

Body:

So a recent article reported increasing numbers of ads for roommate with benefits arrangements on craigslist.

https://archive.is/4RaXg

...Rentals have become expensive and scarce, and people are looking for roommates to offset the cost. The ads have also appeared on classified sites in other cities with hot housing markets, such as San Francisco, New York and Auckland, N.Z.

Sex for cohabitation? Is that prostitution or Marriage 1.0?

Lesson learned:

  1. Beta providers adopt a new and refreshingly honest strategy.

  2. The Futurist's predictions in The Misandry Bubble are coming true right on schedule. If you haven't read it, do so.

https://archive.is/HUYYG

(Edit: should have used the word 'commodification' instead. Cheers, FLFTW16)