Prostitution witchhunts

[Guest josephga]

one of my massage clients told me recently that a friend of his went to a female provider, she offered sensual massage as well as escorting, he paid with his credit card. Over a year later she was busted for prostitution. they had her credit records and the police contacted him about his transaction with this lady.. pay in cash

[Luv2play]

I suspect Spitzer will face no charges. The johns usually don't. Money laundering means to me that the money must be the proceeds of crime. I very much doubt that Spitzer was using such money to pay his chicks.

 

As for his wife, I hate to say it but I think the wife must share some degree of the blame. Obviously Eliot was not getting what he wanted at home. I grew up in a straight laced family but I know that my mother kept my father entertained in the bedroom all of their long married life since I once inadvertantly dropped in on them early one morning on an unexpected return from a trip and found them entertaining themselves at 7 in the morning in a most unrestrained manner. And they were in their late fifties! Ten years later, when I was living in Europe and they came to visit, each confided to me separately that they thought the other was "slowing down" a bit. I just laughed to myself.

 

Prostitution has its place in all civilizations. I certainly recommend it myself for those who don't want the entanglement of relationships at whatever point they may be in their lives. I am just thankful that I live in a place where it is not illegal per se. Communicating for the purposes is but that is meant to restrain streeet walking, not in-calls.

[KMEM]

Wow, their late 50's. :-)

 

I can assure you from personal experience life is not over in your late 50's. :-) :-)

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[Guest zipperzone]

>Over a year

>later she was busted for prostitution. they had her credit

>records and the police contacted him about his transaction

>with this lady.. pay in cash

 

That, to me, is a no-brainer.

[Guest backbaygayguy]

>As for his wife, I hate to say it but I think the wife must

>share some degree of the blame. Obviously Eliot was not

>getting what he wanted at home.

 

Sorry, no blaming the wife -- we have no idea what was going on in the Spitzer home. She might have been a sex machine and Spitzer got off on getting more on the side or the high of spending big bucks or the high of being governor and doing whatever he wants or the ego boost of being a stud with a young woman -- bottom line, the blame is **100% Spitzer's** and his wife is **innocent**. If he wasn't happy at home, there's marriage counseling. If he was as smart as he was thought to be, he wouldn't have moved large sums of money to trigger bank warnings. I'm not blaming him for getting a little on the side -- that's his business -- but he's 100% to blame for getting caught -- either his prick or his ego got in the way of common sense.

[Bilbo]

I once heard a story about a porno star whose wife told him that it was all right if he had sex with another man, but she would cut his balls off if she ever found him in bed with another woman. Their son grew up to also perform in gay porn, and married a woman who gave him the same deal.

Since we are not mind readers, it is possible that Mrs. Spitzer had given her man a similar deal. Perhaps, OK if you're paying for it, balls off if I ever find you having sex with someone whom you are not paying. Or if you kill our political career. I will stand beside you, but I will make such faces you will never even be elected dog catcher ever again!!

Doubtful, but possible.

[Guest josephga]

I agree the wife shouldnt be blaimed. people that cheat, cheat because thats who they are. he would have done this regardless of who he was married too..

[Luv2play]

Nice scenario-the wife as sex machine- but I don't buy it. There are many sexually dysfunctional couples walking around in their middle age. This is nothing new.After bearing their husbands the requisite children, pretty soon other interests intervene and for a variety of reasons, the sex link vaporizes.

 

Going back to my family (again), when my uncle died unexpectedly at the age of 45 from a heart attack in 1957, he left a young attractive widow and two lovely daughters. After several years went by, my mother asked her sister-in-law whether she would ever get remarried. She was shocked to hear my aunt say that she and my uncle hadn't had sex for ten years and she had NO interest in any other man. And she lived to 89 and never looked at another man. I always felt sorry for my uncle.

[edjames]

A little caution and common sense goes a long way. Elliot should have known better and his arrogance thought he was above it all.

 

If the situation or conversation sounds suspicious, it's probably that little voice in your head giving you a heads-up warning.

 

I dated a high profile escort years ago who thought he was above entrapment, but a very clever vice cop here in NYC called him one night, booked a session and when the door opened the escort was arrested and led out of the building in handcuffs. (He was held in jail for over 24 hours and given community service. The moron failed to show up for the community service and was promptly re-arrested! Idiot!)

 

That's what vice cops do. They're not all doing stings on some dark alley in some seedy part of town. These guys are extremely internet savvy and frequently monitor the activity on the net. That's what they're trained and paid to do.

 

I was recently shocked to get a call from an escort I hadn't seen in about 7 years to inform me he's back in the biz! He said he kept his client list all these years. I told him that I wasn't thrilled with his decision to hold on to the information. (PS - yeah, I did hire him again, but just to have a reunion and see how the years treated him! LOL)

 

I don't necessarily think the Spitzer affair means they'll be a witchhunt but it never hurts to exercise some caution with your transactions. Always pay cash and never leave a paper trail. Be careful about your computers. Cleans files and emails on a regular basis, and it's not a bad idea to re-format your hard drive from time to time to permanently delete files. Also, clean out your internet history file.

 

ED

[+ Lucky]

An LA Times columnist took an inside look at cops working Craigslist:

 

http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-me-lopez16mar16,1,4634864.column

[pierrot]

I am talking about people exulting over Spitzer's being caught hiring prostitutes. The press has made a major point of Spitzer's having prosecuted a couple of prostitution "rings" when he was attorney general. However the focus of his prosecutions, and what he was noted for, were Wall St. firms that were corrupt or who cheated their clients. He had also attacked some of the entrenched corruption in Albany -- these were far more important parts of his career than the prostitution prosecutions which were only a footnote to his career at the time. He was not a zealot about prostitution, but he WAS a zealot in rooting out illegal dealings in financial firms.

Another thing not noted here is that Spitzer was fighting for a gay rights bill in New York that the state senate Republicans have bottled up.

Even though I recognize his hypocrisy over the prostitution issue, I still say we've lost a potentially wonderful governor. Those of you who are carrying on about how happy you are that he was caught are, imo, misguided by the sensational media reports.

[pierrot]

Here's the article about Spitzer's gay marriage bill from last April.

 

http://www.gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18268024&BRD=2729&PAG=461&dept_id=568864&rfi=6

[pierrot]

No, it was not Spitzer's prosecutions of prostitution rings that made him a target, it was his much more high profile prosecutions in the financial sector. Very powerful interests were at stake. I'm sure you've heard that there were cheers on Wall St. when the prostitution raps were announced -- those were the people out to get him. He was caught by a BANK watching his money transfers. They weren't looking for his being involving in prostitution, they were hoping to get him on money laundering. It turned out NOT to be money laundering, but the prostitution link worked just as well.

[Bilbo]

Dear Luv, I'm not sure you're referring to my last note with the "wife as sex machine" remark, I doubt you are, but if you are, let me reassure you that all of my five marriages have been open relationships. It is not an uncommon thing. Neither is the partial opening of a relationship.