Oh, jeez, here we go again. Another high-flying politician, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, with presidential ambitions yet, a crusader for right and justice, the scourge of sleaze and crime, gets caught bumping a pricey hooker when he's out of town away from his wife. Worse, he actually imported her into DC for a little fun between daytime business. (Google the "Mann Act" please.) The only novelty is that for a change he's a Democrat.
This stuff is so unnecessary. It's not uncommon for middle aged men to desire some exciting sexual variety after years of marriage, even in a happy marriage. No, scratch "not uncommon." It's damn near universal. The question is what you do about it.
Cummon, despite its disrepute, this is where porn does a lot of good. If a guy can look at what turns him on in private when he can scratch that itch but good, it may not be quite as fucktastic as banging in person what you're looking at, male, female, or in between. But it can take the edge off, make the urge for in-person banging less urgent, more manageable, and has probably kept a lot of marriages sailing smoothly on an even keel. And okay, yes, me too. Been there, done that, cleaned up afterwards.
But Spitzer? No. It wasn't because he was horny. Anyone can take care of horny in five minutes in the bathroom. This is about arrogance, and entitlement, and an ego that thinks he's climbed so high nothing can bring him down. One blogger, the Rude Pundit, consulted a hooker friend of his about why anyone would pay so much for a hooker, up to $5,500. She said, "The same reason people buy ugly paintings by famous artists or stay in penthouse hotel rooms for a night. Because they can. Status, you know."
Status. I think Spitzer's lost a lot of that in the past 48 hours. I think he's lost all that he had.
2 comments:
You vastly oversimplify. When was a wank last satisfactory? Of course, the Spitzers of the world who have issues within their marital sex life should deal with it more directly, but it's easy to imagine scenarios in which hiring a hooker seems like the best manner of dealing. Not at $5k/hr, though. That's beyond ridiculous.
And we have no idea what her story might be, and thus the real, overall situation.
But we do know he was hoist on his own petard, and that's enough. The poor stupid bastard should certainly resign.
And indeed, he has.
As for the satisfactory question, that depends on the wank, and anyway varies from person to person.
Newsweek has an article on why powerful men risk everything for sex, and it's intersting. Link is
here.
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