Sex-trade clients speak
She's been gathering letters from hookers and johns, and today she explores what we might learn from them about Eliots. Snip from Susannah's Newsweek piece:
One letter in particular may offer a window into the mind-set of a man like Spitzer. It came in the form of an encrypted e-mail from a state investigator. Professionally, he was dedicated to enforcing the law. Personally, he was in a relationship with a woman with whom he hadn't had sex in years. He'd been seeing prostitutes since 1991. In his encoded diary he recorded his encounters. "1 dot is oral, 2 dots is vaginal sex, and 2 connected dots is anal sex. In the event that someone questions the dots, they are associated with good or bad days: no dots are normal days, 1 dot is a good day, 2 dots is a great day, and 2 connected dots is the best day for that week." For him, sex for money was sex without strings, attachment, or guilt—a transaction.Link.But for some it's the financial transaction itself that is alluring. In the first letter I received I heard from a successful twentysomething who described himself as "attractive and ambitious." He had a girlfriend—"a wonderful woman"—but there was something about the act of paying for sex, he confessed, that turned him on. "I find the idea of paying for sexual acts to be erotic," he confided. For some men, especially those who are seen as particularly moral or righteous in their public lives (think of all those fallen preachers), part of the appeal is the fact that it is illegal and a moral transgression in their eyes.
In related news, here's a piece about the amateur R&B singer and pro sex worker who brought down Spitzer. And here's her MySpace page.
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It seems there's a lot of money in this business; client #9 was being charged $4,000 a pop!
This is probably more profitable than drugs!
How shocking! A man with money and power pays for sex! Let us all put our collective minds together and figure out the deep roots and causes of this thing called prostitution! We can all scamper though that window on the mind set of such a man as Spitzer and fully understand how our society is so troubled!
Plus there is nothing really to do while we wait for the next Britney Spears breakdown.
1 dot is oral, 2 dots is vaginal sex, and 2 connected dots is anal sex.
People with extensive porn collections, digital or otherwise, often seem to derive more enjoyment from organizing their smut than from viewing it. Sex is rarely about sex.
and whose diary looks like a pointillist painting???
I love classical poetry
"Atom secrets, secret leaflet
Have the boys found the leak yet?
The molehill sets the wheel in motion
His downfall picks up locomotion
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
The leader's wife takes a government car
In the dark to meet her minister
But the leader never leaves his door ajar
As he swings his whip from the Boer War
He wore a leather mask for his dinner guests
Totally nude and with deep respect
Proposed a toast to the votes he gets
The feeling of power and the thought of sex!
Now the girl let the fat man touch her
Vodka fumes and the feel of a vulture
The driver waited in the embassy car
The fat man's trap was set for capture
So the girl let the thin man touch her
Mixing questions, drunken laughter
The ministry car was waiting there
A minister knows his own affair
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday"
America's Top Ten Sex Scandals
http://www.counterpunch.org/rosen08012007.html
I'm afraid I must quibble with "pro sex worker who brought down Spitzer."
Spitzer did a fine job of bringing himself down. Let's put the blame where it rightly belongs.
1 dot is oral, 2 dots is vaginal sex, and 2 connected dots is anal sex.
I may be wrong, but I believe this brings us one step closer to deciphering the sex diaries of John Maynard Keynes.
GET ON IT, HIVE MIND.
Normally, I avoid MySpace at all costs. The inevitably crappy music on each page was the deal breaker for me. This time I took a peek and wasn't disappointed
Here's what I find sad: When people post their "Top 5 Friends" as being the likes of Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse and Celine Dion, do they really believe that such people would really give the time of day to them in real life OR the internet?
How can people really delude themselves into believing that a "click-on" viral marketing campaign is some sort of personal contact that one can be proud enough to "brag" about on their crappy MySpace page?
How can people really delude themselves into believing that a "click-on" viral marketing campaign is some sort of personal contact
Have you seen an obscure television meme called 'American Idol'?
Why is prostitution illegal?
Same reason printing money on your inkjet printer is illegal.
But not quite.
Why are consensual crimes illegal?
Who will turn the other into the police (who are, by the way trapped in the middle, oath sworn to uphold the LAW AND ORDER that keeps our modern societies ahead of monkey society)?
Statistics: it's more common by a factor of 10 that a police officer will have (free) sex from a "sex worker" (dirty jaded drug–addled whore) than arrest her.
New York, in the day?
Straight men?
Still exists.
Friends only, sorry.
Best whorehouse in NYC?
http://www.vintagepink.com
http://www.availablepink.com (same place)
TEN TIMES cheaper than our FUCKING governor paid.
A new Boston Tea party is in order. Not because of the oldest profession. But due to PEOPLE WHO DECEIVE US WITH BIBLE-QUALITY RIGHTIOUSNESS, as they TAX us OUR MONEY in order to go awhoring.
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Legalize prostitution instead of prosecute it. Tax it. Same with drugs. That will add enough money for Obama's plan to fight global poverty by giving poor people money, hopefully just enough to give them enough fish to teach them how to how to do something.
Fish.
But also. How to do something else right, minus SUPERSTITION.
Fuck.
Prostitution is not a consensual crime Nik. Nor ought it be made legal. Though I do like the idea of prosecuting only the johns. Make it illegal to purchase sex not sell it.
@#14 Noen
Even if it were only a crime to pay for sex you would still have to at least charge the prostitutes for incitement to commit a crime.
No you wouldn't Apashiol. This is what Sweden does (not 100% sure though, it's what I've heard). They made prostitution itself legal but it's a crime to solicit. This puts the responsibility back where it belongs with the man. Prostitution, like all sex crimes, is about power.
Prostitution is illegal because people don't want it happening in their neighborhoods. That's usually what gets them riled up over it.
The other reason prostitution is illegal is that it's too cheap and easily available. This cheapens the status value of maintaining a mistress, or marrying and divorcing a string of wives.
Aye, there's he rub.....and tug.
The problem I have with it is: No parent wants their child to grow up to be a prostitute. No young child says to themselves; "When I grow up, I want to be a prostitute." AND absolute, non-negotiable right of free and self-determination of any adult human.
How do you reconcile these two?
p.s. How much longer until the next season of Secret Diary of a Call Girl???
Takuan, very good point.
there is a difference.
Zuzu @20: I'm still waiting to grow up so I can be an astronaut.
Manfred E. Clynes, and Nathan S. Kline, (1960) "Cyborgs and space," Astronautics, September, pp. 26-27 and 74-75; reprinted in Gray, Mentor, and Figueroa-Sarriera, eds., The Cyborg Handbook, New York: Routledge, 1995, pp. 29-34. (hardback: ISBN 0-415-90848-5; paperback: ISBN 0-415-90849-3)
I also totally gush for Gerard K. O'Neill.
These rich, married, celeb losers aren't paying so much for the sex itself as the discretion. They have marriages and high-powered careers at stake. So, the exorbitant surcharge is essentially hush money.
I suspect incidents like this and celeb sex tapes are actually encouraging young girls to whore out for obscene amounts of cash and adulation, though.
When can we have a good scandal where an influential woman is busted for buying sex from a hot young hardbody? Oh wait it's cause men will fuck anybody...no need to pay for it.
But seriously; Legalize it, de-glamorize it, tax it, cut out the middleman - later pimp daddy- and get on with our lives. We all like sex and that's only natural. Lets move on from our Puritan roots and make the world a better, fairer & happier place: free sex for all and for all a good lay!
when you die, can I have your handle?
Sex for money is hardly a capitol punishment crime. But to the morally angry, it can upset a bee-hive.
I live in a small town and use the internet to advertise my services. I have lived here for two years, and although they have tried, the police have never been able to bust me for it. (During off tourist season, the cops here have little else to do.)
They finally got the best of me on an unrelated charge, one that was trumped up and completely unrelated and resulted in an unlawful arrest and false imprisonment (same thing).
But now, I find myself infatuated with the officer who arrested me. Is that sick or what? i am bordering on obbsessive/compulsive here with this guy. Is it normal for a hooker to fall in love with her captor? AM I just yearning for him to set me back on the right path in life?
What's up wigth that? LOL.