SLEEPING YOUR WAY TO THE TOP

Reading the UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY of Madonna, which my friend lent me. I could not resist - I like to read one trashy book per summer.

It's a really great book.

Madonna really slept around - she had at least 3 guys on the hook at one time. You have to admire that, even if you think it's tacky.

The idea of sleeping your way to the top has always confused me. Is one supposed to lay it on the line before the act takes place? Negotiate? Sign a contract?

In college, I had a professor who girls supposedly slept with to get A's. He wore shirts unbuttoned way too low (i.e. nearly to navel), and horrid 70's style tinted glasses INDOORS. He threw me some heat after I wrote an essay on Hedda Gabler, but I wasn't having it - and that was the only class I got a B+ in instead of A+... What a prick.

I guess I have always been too prideful to sleep my way up to anything, and no one has really even tried to proposition me in that way.

Christ, how the hell would it come up in conversation anyway?

The whole thing is a little depressing...