Lipstick on your collar ?

Small things like lipstick sales reveal major economic trends,

    according to a front page newspaper story. Recalling oldie but goodie lyrics-

    " lipstick on your collar tells me you're untrue ! " - I imagined an alternative

    explanation for increased lipstick sales : despite feminist propaganda, feminine

    nature has not changed much since Ovid's time.  A long time ago this great Roman

    poet wrote a  still practical book titled " The Art of Love. " .

              Is it not more likely that millions of females on the brink of

    a scary economic insecurity are merely preparing themselves for the world's

    oldest profession in its legal and illegal forms : marriage and prostitution ?

             By legitimizing  the latter form we will stimulate the economy and

    shorten many a man's cyclic depression .

                On the topic of marriage as prostitution the brainy feminists

    speak with more authority than this bachelor  reader.

                  Many of my divorced male friends speak with agony on the

    subject of life with the material girl. Holy matrimony led to holy alimony !

                Perhaps Liz Taylor has the right idea, after all : Never despair !