Ladies This is Why You Need an Education

Sigh.

This is Angel Lola Luv. Reigning Eye Candy of the Year for XXL, this month's King Magazine cover girl and poster child for why women (Black women in particular) need to get an education. There has been a big controversy on the internet on whether or not her ass is fake (it is) but a better question would be why do women think being a video model is a smart career move?

Let's face it, a big butt and a smile are easily acquired and diminishing assets. "The Industry" chews these girls up and spits them out every year and there are always any number of girls who are pretty and fine just waiting for their chance to be next in line to be used up. Not only that but unless you secure a rich husband (think any white super model) your value decreases greatly with age (think Vida and Ford) 'cause no one is really checking for the 30 year old video model.

And no, everyone is not going to be Karrine Steffans. Regardless of what you think of her she has managed to turn her strippin', video "modeling, hoin' past into a multi million dollar business. There aren't too many video girls on the scene who are going to be able to do that. Most will fade into obscurity after being used and abused and probably have little or no money to show for it.

Look...if you got it and want to flaunt it...fine...just have a plan B...one that involves investing some of that money you make into a business, an education or hell some speech lessons so when you do interviews you don't sound like you just stepped right out of the hood.

Hoin' Pays

Yeah you read that right. Hoin' pays. And not only does it pay, it pays well.

Don't believe me?

Go check out Karrine "Supahead" Steffans website and check out KarrineTV and then tell me what her bankable talents are?

Or if you're interested in the white girl version of Ho's R Us go check out the Girls Next Door page and look at the lovely life of Hugh Hefner's 3 girlfriends.

Yeah they may be sleeping with an 80 year old man but you can't tell me the trade off doesn't make even the mot anti-ho of us pause and think,

"Well..maybe only for a year or two."

I'm sure I'll catch a lot of heat for this post but let's be real: while many of us sit and toil away in graduate programs, or at jobs we don't love, trying to acquire that American Dream, many women are doing better then we will EVER do by being on their backs, the pole or their knees.

And I'm sorry, you can wax poetic to me all day long and tell me how that kind of life is fraught with peril, and loss of self respect and it isn't God's way.

And to that I say...whatever.

That's just what good girls tell themselves to make them feel superior to the bad girls who are living the life they good only dream of.

Call it chicken envy. Call it my very empty bank account. Call it what you will, but I read Supahead's book and after all the strippin', hoin' and video trickin' what I came away with was: If you leave the drugs, alcohol and the truly no good men alone then you're straight. Stack your pape, get out the life, and sit pretty.

It's just that simple.

And It's just not fair.

And while I'm not one to complain about life not being fair, in this case I'm going to whine. All this education and my real asset is well, this ass of mine. Between my brains and my ass I could be sitting pretty.

But no.

That damn moralistic upbringing of mine just kills any hope of that. So instead I get to watch as various women around me make bank and I sit and try to figure out where my next payday is coming from.

All I can do is shake my head. 'Cause while I toil away trying to make a better life for myself and my daughter, the right way, there are other women who know and understand something that secretly we ALL know and understand:

Hoin' Pays.