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[Ya-ta Boy]

People spend endless hours in smoke-filled bars, shell out enormous amounts of money keeping in shape, buying the right clothes etc., and drive themselves into physical exhaustion and emotional distress just to get laid--and they don�t even know why.

And it doesn�t have a thing to do with biology.

Read on:

�Even before choosing Chicago as the ideal city, the sisters (Ada and Minna) had lengthy debates about what to call their next brothel. They knew it would be highly inappropriate to use their given surname, Simms, since they still had family throughout the South. In Omaha, they�d gone by Everly�in honor, they claimed, of their grandmother�s signature closing on her letters, �Everly yours.� It had a nice ring, but this new house required something extra, a certain aristocratic twist.

Inspiration finally hit, and they turned the �ly� into �leigh,� just like Sir Walter Raleigh. Fitting, especially since the writer had spent some time in the American South.

And one of America�s bawdiest idioms was born.

�I have always considered their choice of their professional name to be a marvelous �play on words,� � wrote the sisters� great-neice, �which being a member of the family I could easily relate to their sense of humor.� �The double entendre was intended,� agreed one Chicago historian. The phrase likely evolved from, of all things, the Bible�several passages use �lie with� as a euphemism for sex�but in the decades after the sisters christened their Club, their legacy assumed the credit. I�m getting Everleighed tonight, eminent men from around the country reportedly boasted. A simple declaration that said many things at once, was understood only by a privileged few�and, ultimately, was shortened and vulgarized.�

And now you know why you want to get laid.

From �Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America�s Soul� by Karen Abbott. (From the history book�s back cover: �Step into the perfumed parlors of Chicago�s Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history�and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Minna and Ada Everleigh, the two sisters who operated the Club at the dawn of the last century, were unlike other madams: The Everleighs made sure their girls dined on gourmet food, were examined by an honest physician, and were even tutored in the literature of Balzac. But not everyone appreciated the sisters� attempts to elevate the industry. Progressive Era reformers, spouting lurid tales of �white slavery,� ignited a furor that shaped America�s sexual culture and had repercussions all the way to the White House, even leading to the formation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation�Sin in the Second City provides a vivid snapshot of America�s journey from Victorian-era propriety to twentieth-century modernity.�)

I got my copy at Bandi & Luni's.

[Lonewolf]

It feels great that is why! Not to reproduce. Humans are the only species to get laid because it feels good.

[the_beaver]

[mateomiguel]

spending endless hours in smoke-filled bars and working out are also pretty fun ya know...

[Gopher]

Dolphins.

[ED209]

[The evil penguin]

[Ya-ta Boy]

And all along I thought people would thank me for supplying a way to spice up their middle school lesson on the verb 'to lay'.

[jkelly80]

That's a fantastic book, btw. We read it in my Chicago history class.

[Rob'sdad]

[The Bobster]

For most guys I know (self included) the answer is probably ...

"Uh, because I can?"

[Kiwi Tart]