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Sounds Like a Very Good Actor

David Joyner, 54, used to make his living as an actor dressed up as an oversized purple dinosaur — “Barney” — while a different actor spoke his lines. He has a better gig now, as a tantric sex therapist who has figured out a way to get women to pay him for sex. “The energy I brought up in the costume is based on the foundation of tantra, which is love,” Joyner explained, and tantra is the “science of ecstasy.” Joyner, who grew up in Decatur, Ill., has also worked as a software analyst, massage therapist, and a motivational speaker, and had the Barney gig from 1991 to 2001. His tantric clients, who he prefers to call “goddesses,” pay $350 for a three- to four-hour session. “Not all of my sessions have sex or ‘spiritual intimacy’,” he says. “It’s only in the full sessions, when someone is ready to take the sexual energy to a higher level.” (RC/Chicago Tribune) ...And now you know what the “I love you, you love me” bit was all about.