Pursuant to the bolded quote, I have occasionally wondered why young women allow themselves to become mistresses to powerful married men. What is their endgame? Do they believe they can actually steal the man from the wife and marry him themselves? There is so much in reportage and even pop culture that confirms that almost never happens that they can't seriously believe they have a good chance, do they? Or perhaps it's, they figure their youthful great looks are going to last only so long so they are going to trade on those looks as long as they can and build up so sort of nest egg before their value as an ingenue sex toy collapses? Or do they not have any endgame at all, live day to day on the fly without thinking ahead, get the money today while they can, and let the chips fall where they may tomorrow? I'd love to find any article that discusses this but I am coming up dry on it.