SS and Sex

[rescueme]

(snip)...single men will tend to be the ones who lose?

Uh - sounds "normal" to me ...

 

[W2R]

When I read the title of this thread, I don't think of the same nasty things you pervs think of.

I visualize a sweet old couple, married for half a century or so, looking forward to getting their monthly SS disbursements. On that day, when they both see that they have them, they are so thrilled that they hug one another in glee and dissolve into a sweet, legal, gentle, inoffensive session of, er, "marital bliss".

Thus SS and Sex....

 

[Nords]

I have to admit some disappointment. After reading the thread title I was expecting to find a thread about a senior sex-for-benefits scandal at the SSA or something about granny porn.

When I read the title of this thread, I don't think of the same nasty things you pervs think of.

Heck, I was afraid we'd have to pay for it...

If only there was some way for the title of the thread to be changed to "Social Security benefits versus gender"! But, nah, we probably don't have the technology or the labor to make it happen.

 

[gauss]

If you have to offer one price irrespective of gender, and you end up selling too many annuities to women (longevity risk increases), how do you adjust your business to bring in more men (shorter life expectancy) to balance out your longevity risk? About the only way is to market heavily in areas that men might see your ads! And even that is not 'guaranteed' to adjust your insurance pool risk. Not really an efficient situation to force the insurers into, IMO.

In the US, I think it is legal and common to use sex-based pricing on individual annuities.

Private sector pensions, on the other hand, are prohibited from discreminating based on sex.

 

[W2R]

Heck, I was afraid we'd have to pay for it...

If only there was some way for the title of the thread to be changed to "Social Security benefits versus gender"! But, nah, we probably don't have the technology or the labor to make it happen.

Nah, probably not, unless the OP lets us know that he wants it changed, in which case any mod/admin can change it for him. Besides, we are having such fun with the title as is.

 

[ejman]

Nah, probably not, unless the OP lets us know that he wants it changed, in which case any mod/admin can change it for him. Besides, we are having such fun with the title as is.

I kinda like the little as is, the thread has taken some interesting side tours but if the mod/admin feel it should be changed by all means do so. It's good to know however that judging by the number of posters sex wins over wine. All is well at ER.org

 

[W2R]

Seems fine to me, too, Ejman. We're having a lot of fun with it.

 

[Moemg]

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I visualize a sweet old couple, married for half a century or so, looking forward to getting their monthly SS disbursements. .

Thus SS and Sex....

That sweet old couple are 62 or 66 so they were married at 12 ? Good for them for staying together!

 

[Alan]

I kinda like the little as is, the thread has taken some interesting side tours but if the mod/admin feel it should be changed by all means do so. It's good to know however that judging by the number of posters sex wins over wine. All is well at ER.org

People love to wine about sex.

 

[NW-Bound]

I dunno. At this writing, this "SS and Sex" thread has 35 posts including this one I am writing. The "SS and Wine" has 26 posts. However, this thread readership is at 1022, while the other leads at 1211. It could be because the other thread predates this one, so only time will tell.

Now, as a study of forum readers and posters, how about starting up another thread called "SS and Bacon"?

Then, "Sex and Wine"? "Wine and Bacon"? And then, "Sex and Ba...". No, I'd better stop.

 

[ejman]

People love to wine about sex.

I dunno about that but the two certainly seem to make a fine combination.

As an aside, it's kind of interesting that as the years have gone by and seniorhood approaches (hell it's here!) many couples that have made it thru the difficult years of developing and maintaining a career, kids etc etc seem to kind of settle into a contented world where the subject matter is a very important and comforting part. Hell, for prior generations it was either never talked about or it just seemed to go into oblivion (or maybe that's what we youngsters thought). Anyway - way off topic. But I liked W2R's dream couple sequence.

 

[frayne]

I have a friend that still refers to a bottle of wine as "panty remover".