You can always count on New York City’s tabloids for lurid, sometimes humorous, headlines — the classic being the New York Post’s “Headless Body In Topless Bar” or perhaps the Daily News’ “Ford To City: Drop Dead” —- and the Elliot Spitzer sex scandal is no different:
H/T: Brendan Loy, who has a collection of front pages from around the Empire State
March 11th, 2008 at 9:13 am
[...] Brendan Loy has a GREAT collection of images, front pages of New York newspapers and tabloids on the Eliot Spitzer Hookergate scandal. My personal favorite is below.H/T: Below the Beltway [...]
March 11th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I do not support most of Spitzer’s political positions. He is certainly a political opponent who is easy to dislike, but I will not join in the ranting over his supposed “sex scandal.”
Every married American man pays for sex, so why is prostitution illegal?
In America, when you marry, a man is required to obligate half or more of his worldly assets, both present and future, in exchange for what is typically infrequent and uninspired rolls in the hay with a sex worker who typically stays around for five to seven years, this sex worker is also known as a “wife.”
If one outsources this recreational sex function to a short term contractor, the cost is lower and, for both the man and woman, the arrangement is often more satisfactory than the five year contract we commonly refer to as, “a marriage.”
In many countries, men in power are expected to have one or more mistresses. These other cultures look at our country and see us as hypocrites about adult relationships.
Most of the rest of the world could not understand all of the uproar over Bill Clinton’s fling with the chubby Jewish girl, Monica Lewinski. I must admit that when I learned of the affair, I was a little relieved to learn that Clinton was at least occasionally interested in women. I had previously thought he was a homo. I mean really, with Hillary? Come on!
As for Republicans’ mock righteous indignation directed at Spitzer: Based on my own observations of the GOP, half of the men are wishing that they too, could afford thousand dollar hookers, while the other half are thinking, “Spitzer had sex with a girl? Eeeeeew!”
March 11th, 2008 at 11:22 am
I don’t disagree with you about the contention that prostitution should, ultimately, be legalized.
But Spitzer’s downfall is happening because of his own rank hypocrisy.
He came into office as “Mr. Clean” and when he was Attorney General zealously prosecuted anyone who dared cross his path. He even reserved special scorn for the prostitution rings he helped bust up as AG (perhaps because he had inside information, who knows).
The man is a hypocrite and that’s why he’s going down.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Prostitution on the Web?…
Is anybody surprised that you can do that on the Internet? The porn industry has thrived on the new media and in fact is responsible for many of its early innovations. With streaming media and broadband connections becoming common place, those who will…