Personally, I'd rather it were legalized and regulated. Hell, if there were relatively little risk of disease, pregnancy, or getting rolled by a pimp, once in a blue moon it might even be a fun time to take the sigoth down to the old whorehouse and shake things up a bit, all adults consenting.
But god almighty? $5,500 an hour? My dick better be gilt after we're done. If I'm going to spend half a camry, I expect a similar utility from the experience. I should leave with advanced knowledge in some arcane field. Maybe an organ transplant. Is this a zero-gravity fuck on space-ship one? Are Stephen Hawking and Madden going to be present doing a play-by-play? Am I coming away with Advanced Auditing toward my overcoming my Pre-Clear Status? No Load Mutual Funds? The recipe for Famous Amos's Cookies?
Because $5,500 dollars is a lot spend on some trim, even if there's a harvard education buxom flesh puppet attached to it.
Good god. Rich people and the things they do with money.
max [email] said at 12:44 PM 03-11-2008: I worked on an interview with a Vegas hooker that made a lot of money. Apparently, the thing to do is start out dancing to get the attention of a porn scout. Then make a name for yourself as a porn star. Once you have a dedicated fan base, you rent yourself out to them for the weekend. She charged a ridiculously high fee plus travel expenses. She wasn't even hot, but I heard she had extraordinary oral skills.
shelly [email] said at 2:33 PM 03-11-2008: if you could transform an orifice into an ATM,
You could. Your marketing strategy would just be a bit different.
brandon [email] said at 2:46 PM 03-11-2008: True. Personally, I couldn't, I've really let myself go lately. And, unlike women, to be the kind of dude who attracts dudes who like to do dudes, you have be be a better looking and in better shape than I am now.
brandon [email] said at 8:41 PM 03-11-2008: Well, we could probably used some fresh-faced young fellows. Are you volunteering Rick - or should I say "Ravishing" Rick?
brandonA [email] said at 9:20 PM 03-11-2008: I always think that women who marry vastly ambitious, unattractive dudes like spitzer are pretty aware of the score, and so aren't surprised.
kiche [email] said at 10:41 PM 03-11-2008: the reason link sways me more than the pandagon link.
why should spitzer be forced to retire over this? larry craig and david vitter are still in office and they are no lesser hypocrites. in fact, many would argue that they are greater hypocrites.
why should democrats be held to higher standards? i don't by ms. marcotte's reasoning of why they should.
in fact, i think vice laws start to encounter real opposition as regular citizens start to take notice that they don't apply to the powerful and wealthy.
art [email] said at 10:13 AM 03-12-2008: Spitzer made a concerted effort to clearly break the law over a period of 10 years. I don't see how there can be any defense whatsoever of a guy who was breaking the law all the while he was the top upholder of the law in one of the largest states in the union.
There is really no comparison between Craig and Spitzer. One consistenly paid for organized sex while one was just looking for a free hookup in the men's room
kiche [email] said at 10:30 AM 03-12-2008: craig was still breaking the law. also, you are forgetting david vitter who is guilty of the exact same crime as spitzer. neither of these men have been forced to resign.
also, neither of these men may have been prosecutors; but they were both legislators who pushed vice laws (as moral/family values).
so the difference is very tiny.
i don't really care about spitzer; i just think this is b.s.
rick [email] said at 10:23 PM 03-12-2008: David Vitter is not quite as big of a hypocrite as Spitzer. Spitzer actually used his powers as Attorney General against persons indirectly related to prostitution. Vitter just said Clinton should resign because he had been alleycatting. Also, he has talked up the Importance of the Sanctity of Marriage:
You are on sturdier ground with Craig; few called for Vitter's resignation but plenty called for Craig's resignation.
Unlike Johnson or Chaplin, however, Spitzer has actively worked to incarcerate people for their roles in the very crime he is now alleged to have committed. Such sanctimonious duplicity would seem especially worthy of sanction even if such prosecutions at the federal level are now rare. Sending Spitzer to jail for his "sex trafficking" would certainly teach him, and others, a lesson. Unfortunately, part of the lesson would be that the private acts of consenting adults should continue to occupy the energies of federal law enforcement.
kara [email] said at 12:18 PM 03-12-2008: The most frustrating part about the laws against prostitution, in my opinion, is the fact that high-class hookers like the one(s) dealing with Spitzer can make a ton of money, often under the table and tax free, while street prostitutes have little protection under the law and health-care systems and are basically left to the wolves.
brandon [email] said at 2:26 PM 03-12-2008: Yep. The Mann act is a racist subset of a set of seemingly absurd prostitution and human trafficking laws. But the pattern is the same, the poor are more susceptible to risk and abuse at the hands of the law than the rich, be they lawyers or whores.
In all seriousness, I probably would not use a whore unless (1) I became disabled/severely disfigured (2) I became suddenly wealthy and maintained my current levels of paranoia and distrust (3) I was planning to committ suicide, and wanted a night without drama next to a warm body.
Whores and whoring have the potential to become a rather positive aspect of our culture. Unfortunately, the culture warriors and christ-mongering eschatalogical fetishists don't give a fucking shit about human happiness, entrepreneurship, or improving the lot of women - so - unless you're lucky enough to live in portions of Nevada, and if you're a law-abiding citizen, all we're left with is the voyeurism of strip clubs and porn. Government condemnation, like the drug war, worsens the risk. And like the drug war, if the approach were regulation there'd be an entire, transformative industry in place. Instead, we incur social massive costs, disease, poverty, crimes associated with an trade, the lost of income and impact on the families of those who are arrested and detained, humiliated, fired, defamed, and cast out because they're human and they want to fuck.
Next time around, put me on a planet that's not filled with assholes.
kiche [email] said at 3:58 PM 03-12-2008: hey guys; the mann act; the law they got spitzer with; is only tangently about prostitution. it's about transporting females across state lines for "immoral purposes".
brandon [email] said at 5:36 PM 03-12-2008: There was once a scientist working on the secret of eternal life. He had a laboratory on a remote island, where he used dolphins as test subjects. He soon found that the main ingredient needed for his formula came from sea birds, which he would capture and bring back to his lab. One day, as he was returning with a new supply of birds, he noticed two old, sleepy lions blocking his doorway. They looked harmless enough, so he stepped over them, and entered his lab, where he was immediately arrested. for transporting gulls across staid lions for immortal porpoises
My assertion then is this. If these guys, a gay dude and a blind dude can get laid, not just get laid, but participate in multiple modes of punchmonkeymeatsock, then by god's lids, if I'm having such a hard time, then by god, we need prostitutes like we need cheaper petroleum, better lending practices, and a ban on pictures of Britney Spears's cellulitic legs.
Where are my clean, regulated, distinctly priced, soaked-in-contraception, and conveniently located whores? WHERE ARE THEY!
