The idea of rejection compensation was first introduced by Senator Stuart Barenbaum. Barenbaum based his ideas on the findings of the Senate Commission on the Dating Crisis. Here is an excerpt from those findings. "There is indeed a dating crisis in this country. After 2 yrs. of testimony it is our conclusion that this crisis is caused by unfair expectations of males by their female counterparts. These females are brainwashed by TV and the movies into thinking that men must have a high income, be suave, debonair, and good looking in order to be eligible bachelors. Being that the majority of jobs in this country are unskilled and by definition most men are ordinary in appearance and general appeal, these expectations are totally unrealistic. This attitude by females has demoralized a significant segment of the male population, and is responsible for a growing number of divorces. It has rendered a large number of men psychologically impotent and is responsible for business failures, suicides, and a growing skid row population. This is a very dangerous condition for our country to be in. When a significant segment of the male population is crippled psychologically this will adversely affect national defense. So, for reasons of national defense it is our conclusion that a rejection compensation board be established to rectify this situation. This board should compensate men for spending needless cash on broads when no sex is had and the guy is rejected."

    And so, the cry for rejection compensation was heard throughout America. In locker rooms, factories and scrap yards, men raised the hue and cry for rejection compensation, now!

    There was a certain amount of resistance. The conservatives said that the govn’t had no right to be in the dating business.  Some females were naturally resistant. But a nation that was still feeling the sting of four years of budget cuts, that had led the middle classes to the brink of poverty, had made people look toward new solutions. Rejection compensation swept across the nation like a large vacuum cleaner on high, sweeping everyone along with it.

    The passage of rejection compensation, like the Magna Carta, before it,  would give men everywhere a sense of dignity and purpose. Knowing, if they returned home from a date scoreless, they could still hold their heads up high and be compensated for their trouble.