From: name withheld [mailto:withheld@something.com]
Sent: September 22, 2005 11:50 PM
To: Seamus Fanucci
Subject: Re: Simple, Easy, Cost Effective Solutions

Hi Seamus,

Indeed, I did try to get your free product demo. For reasons which I can no longer remember I never reached a point where I was actually able to see anything which resembled a demo or something which looked potentially viable to me. (What a surprise.-Ed.)

We of course all want something for nothing and the other side is always trying to get their something first.

I am retired to the Philippines on a very small Canadian pension, so anything that requires Dollars is way out of my reach. However I do have two products which I am trying to get onto good web coverage.

One is a Hydroponics book I sell in stores but which is no longer selling so well anymore. It is probably time to go global on the internet. I have a website but I do not have the money or knowledge to do what has to be done.

Secondly I have a tropical resort which I manage for free rent.

I wish to sell packaged holidays to repressed middle-aged men. We have world class scuba diving and all the regular tourist attractions. We are next to the local airport in a City called Dumaguete, Negros Oriental Island Philippines. The tourists stopped coming after George W screwed the world up.

Our specialty is that when our tourist arrives he can choose a tour guide from some very lovely ladies (definitely not prostitutes) but everyday young ladies hoping to look after the tourist and hopefully prove herself worthy of his love and hence a better future, because the Phils are not progressing.

She will show him why, after the Mutiny on the Bounty, the sailors mutinied rather than leave their island ladies. These Philipine ladies are devoted to the service of their men to a higher degree than any mother ever was.

No tourist here ever willingly leaves the lady of his choice behind. North Americans (not the weird group out to exploit women) love and usually marry their Filipinas.

Whisky is $1.50 a bottle, cigs are $.0.50c a pack. The weather is tropical, the society honours and respects foreigners and the girls think he is a God.

I am 64 and I have a lady of 28 who dedicates her whole life to looking after me. I live like a God on $500.00 a month.

Anyhow, packaged tours taking dollars up front can give the tourist the best holiday of his life, probably get him to fall in love and make a handsome profit out of less money than he would spend on any other holiday in his own country, chasing women with brass-balls who treat him as inferior.

Name Withheld.

Who wants to bet that his book on hydroponics is really about grow ops? Who'll guess that this resort is about sex tourism? Anyone? I haven't done a shred of research on this, but it's funny to imagine.

As for the rest, like the last paragraph, it is very reminiscent of many men's rights activists such as Fathers 4 Justice, or even the Promise Keepers in a way. This guy would make a decent Promise Keeper if he didn't love the herb so much. He likes the fact that women submit to him. He likes the power and honour he receives. And it seems as though some New York women might prefer it if more men were more old-school in that regard.

This old-school thinking probably did have some advantages, though. Here's a quote from an article at Nerve:

My twentysomething friends and I are so confident about how genderless and classless and egalitarian we are that we don't notice we're stumbling into traps that people in the '50s with their rigid rules and gender divide avoided with a slew of unspoken codes.

Maybe this guy is on to something that we've lost over the past half-century. Rose and I saw a documentary about sex and virginity in Iran (I think). Among the interviewees was a woman who decided to remain a virgin until marriage. She put it this way: "All a woman has to do is remain chaste and marry even a half-decent guy. He'll do all of the work for the rest of your lives. All you do is sit around the house, make a few kids and spread your legs once in a while. Why would I want 'independence'? Why would I want that responsibility?"

If it were really like that, I suppose that she's right. Independence sucks for women. And for men like Mr. Withheld. I can't help but believe that there is no wisdom in these more traditional ways of living. I don't actually want to live like that, but I do like harmony, and I respect relationships that have it, even if the power balance seems out of whack. I mean, maybe men need power. Male impotence has more to do with erectile dysfunction. Perhaps ED is caused by a lack of power in his life. It's no secret that men are becoming more and more listless and indifferent, while women are becoming more and more stressed and unhappy. I know that there are a million reasons for this, but the need for a certain level of power should be examined and not dismissed entirely.

No one seems to care about female impotence except drug companies and special interest groups. I'm just throwing ideas out there, now, but maybe women at large don't want or need power the way that men might. We all know that women have different needs than men do. Hmmm.

Maybe Rose and I should open a resort in the Philippines. :) At least we'd have cheap booze and cigarettes.