Sen. Vitter Gets Off Again

Louisiana Senator David Vitter -- the upright Republican who was patronizing Deborah Jean Palfrey's escort service -- got a bit of good news the other day. The Senate Ethics Panel dropped its complaint against Vitter "with prejudice" this week, meaning he'll escape any official sanction for his whoremongering.

How did he do it? Well, it seems that timing is everything, as the Washington Post explains:

In its ruling, the [Senate Ethics] panel said it could not punish Vitter because his association with the escort service occurred before he joined the Senate in 2005.

"The conduct at issue occurred before your Senate candidacy and service . . . the conduct at issue did not result in your being charged criminally . . . the conduct at issue did not involve use of public office or status for improper purposes," the committee wrote in a letter signed by all six senators.

Elected to the House in 1999, Vitter cannot be investigated by its ethics committee because it has no jurisdiction now that he is a senator.

So while the woman who ran the service got convicted, faced a jail term, was bankrupted and finally became so depressed that she hung herself, her patron gets away without even a slap on the wrist thanks to his Senate buddies. Makes you proud to be an American, doesn't it?

On a related note, the Post earlier pointed out that Palfrey's total earnings from her escort service were peanuts.

Palfrey ran her business, Pamela Martin & Associates, by telephone from her California home, and authorities said she grossed about $2 million from 1993 to 2006, splitting the money about evenly with her escorts. They said she employed at least 132 women over the years, dispatching them nightly to clients in homes and hotel rooms in the Washington area.

So, $2 million over 13 years? Whip out your calculator: that means her whole operation was grossing about $154 thou annually. Half of that went to the call girls. Palfrey then had to pay whatever the overhead was herself (It was probably not that much, since she ran it all by phone). It's not clear whether she paid any taxes on the call-girl service either, but she wasn't convicted on tax-dodging charges, so she may very well have.

In short Palfrey was making about $77 thou a year before any expenses and any taxes. Retirement and health care came out of her own pocket too. Hardly a lavish operation. Isn't there actual, big-time corruption going on someplace the feds can go after?

In a World Unknown To Anyone, Rob Calls Men Who Fuck Street Walkers "Disgusting"

I noticed yesterday that our 'Baltimore' label was getting an abnormal amount of traffic. Checking the 'Came from' statistics I was hoping to find a link from a reputable blog, praising the wisdom and wit of TtP. Instead I found the traffic coming from this url: http://www.usasexguide.info/forum/showthread.php?t=3354. (link probably NSFW)

It's a message board for johns in Baltimore where users can rate different street walkers, provides helpful tips, locations, etc. I talked about it here, in the post that the message board guy was trying to link back to...If fucking Baltimore street walkers hadn't rotted his brain so much as to make linking to an individual post too challenging for him. Here's what 'Sleeping Bag' had to say about Rob:

And the Sep 24 posting on http://www.tothepeople.com/labels/Baltimore.html sees us mongers having "nothing better to do" and our sexcapade postings as "disgusting," and full of "shock and horror."

So to all of us, let us not say we weren't warned that 5.0 monitors this and that we've been shunned as social rejects...

How great is the internet? I couldn't have written a better parody is I had tried. Classic stuff. Mark this one down kids -- this is most likely the last time I will ever be accused by guys who bone street walkers of not being fully on their side. As a matter of fact, I'm hurt. I've now spent the better part of a year and a half, protecting the little guy who would rather pay $20 dollars for sex with a crack-addled Latino hooker off the side of the road, than pay the astronomical prices of an escort service...Or, you know, try and normally date. And this is the thanks I get? Outrageous!

Navy: Accelerate Your Sex Life

A Navy officer has resigned after revealing that she worked as a hooker for 13 years for D.C. madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey. The Navy Times reveals all:

Lt. Cmdr. Rebecca Dickinson told federal prosecutors at U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., that she had sex with nearly every client she met while working for Deborah Jeane Palfrey from October 2005 until April 2006.

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Navy spokesman Capt. Jack Hanzlik told Navy Times that Dickinson, 38, was fired from her position as an instructor at Naval Supply Corps School in Athens, Ga., earlier this month after she gave detailed information about her involvement in the case to superiors.

After her statement, Dickinson also received nonjudicial punishment and was given a punitive letter of reprimand. Hanzlik said she could face additional punishment in the future and has been placed on leave. When she exhausts her accumulated leave time, Dickinson will revert to unpaid leave status and remain there until she is separated from the Navy.

“We expect the men and women who serve in our nation’s Navy to adhere to a standard of conduct that reflects our core values of honor, courage and commitment,” Hanzlik said. “Lt. Cmdr. Dickinson’s conduct will prevent her from wearing this uniform again in the service of our country.”

Actually it wasn't not wearing the uniform that got her in trouble?

Seriously though, sailors and whores are a great combination that have worked great together throughout the ages, kind of like Reese's chocolate and peanut butter. Don't tell me that the Navy doesn't look the other way when male sailors patronize whores. So why is the Navy coming down on this poor woman, who was apparently just trying to pay her bills?

Breaking News: Husband Cheats on Ugly Wife with Hot Hooker

Keep these coming please:

ROY, Mich. — The husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow told police he paid a prostitute $150 for sex at a hotel, according to a police report.

Thomas Athans, 46, co-founder of the liberal TalkUSA Radio network, was stopped by police who were investigating prostitution at the hotel, according to a police report obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press under the state Freedom of Information Act.[...]

Officers said they saw Athans enter the room Feb. 26 and leave 15 minutes later, and they stopped him and informed him of the investigation.

He told the officers he had used the Internet to make a date with a prostitute and paid her $150 for oral sex at the motel, the report said.

Quick facts of this case: Picture of Sen. Stabenow below.

Yikes. She's pretty frightening. So her husband pays $150 to get a blow job from this 20 year old My Space whore. [I prefer craigslist, but I don't judge]

Yeah, all the facts line up in this case.

Profitable Mistake

How many of you would like to make a $5,000/hr mistake?

Now that her alleged involvement with Emperors Club V.I.P. has been exposed, "she's just trying to work through it," says high school friend Joe Pawlak, who remains in touch with Ashley. "We're just trying to keep her head up and keep her strong, have her look at this as a positive. People make mistakes. All you can do is try to go on, grow from the experience."

Yeah, move on. I'll translate for you -- Move on: Capitalize on your fast, and probably short-lived fame with a few high-priced media interviews and a shady music deal or two.

I'm not sure I get all this hand-wringing over her decision to sell her body and sexual talents for what would certainly be considered more than fair market price. As a society we tend to look up to politicians like say Barack Obama, who make a living out of selling more than just their bodies to the highest paying special interest group, doing damage not only to their souls, but to our pocketbooks and freedoms. I know which whore I respect more.

Spitzer To Resign

News media is reporting that Spitzer will resign any moment now. No word yet on whether he will be attending rehab for stupidity. How dumb can one politician be? A politician who was a prosecutor no less. The phone calls, all those text messages and e-mails...Was he thinking at all? He must have been thinking somewhat; he didn't want to use his credit card for the transaction, and he paid extra cash so that he didn't have to go through the payment process again. Still though, all that communication on tape and paper. So stupid and so unnecessary.

My tip to Spitzer if he ever finds himself in the halls of power again: Drive around a run-downed section of a city really slow. After that, it's pretty simple and self-explanatory. And cheap. You won't be spending $80,000 on sex if you operate that way. Health insurance is a must if you're getting your hookers that way, but it's still a bargain. As I always say -- Street walkers are the Wal-Marts of prostitution.

Markets Up

This morning's Spitzer Effect on Wall Street?

And more news on TtP's favorite John: Turns out Spitzer was the target of the federal investigation, because of suspicious movements of money that looked like he was hiding bribe money. I'd say on a scale of bad to good news for E Dawg, this is pretty fucking bad news. Also, The Smoking Gun has more hooker documents up.

More Spitzer Links

The Fix has a decent, take-it-for-what-its-worth run down of the political implications of this, where I learn that the Lieutenant Governor of New York -- who would take over if Spitzer resigned -- is a legally blind black man. Which would have to be some sort of milestone in regards to governors, as well as a major coup for the blind African-American community years after the not-too recent exit of Ray Charles from the national stage.

Also, from this WCBS news blurb I learn that escort service he was allegedly using was way out of my price range. By about $5,540/hour:

[...]the high-profile "Emperors Club VIP," which was accused last week of offering prostitutes to wealthy clients, topping out at $5,500 an hour. Four people were arrested in the ring that was linked to cities in the U.S. as well as in Europe.”

And, of course, The Smoking Gun has all the documentation (mostly in relation to the Emperors Club), including transcripts, which will require a lot of whisky and time for me to go through it all tonight.

We've also got our Eliot Spitzer tag up, so be sure to give it a click if you landed on this page from google or another link.

Actual Breaking News: NY Gov. Spitzer Likes Him Some Hookers

I hated the guy until I read this:

NEW YORK - The New York Times is reporting that Gov. Eliot Spitzer has told senior advisers that he had been involved in a prostitution ring.

Spitzer is scheduled to make an announcement Monday afternoon. Spitzer officials wouldn't immediately comment on the story. Spitzer, 48, is married and has three daughters.

AP story here. Thanks to my Dad for the early heads-up on the story.

UPDATE: More from the NYT story:

ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month, according to a person briefed on the federal investigation.

The wiretap recording, made during an investigation of a prostitution ring called Emperors Club VIP, captured a man identified as Client 9 on a telephone call confirming plans to have a woman travel from New York to Washington, where he had reserved a room. The person briefed on the case identified Mr. Spitzer as Client 9.

I'm guessing this is where he found himself in some relatively serious trouble, but if we have any readers who are lawyer types that would like to elaborate on the details of this kind of case, please do.

Federal prosecutors rarely charge clients in prostitution cases, which are generally seen as state crimes. But the Mann Act, passed by Congress in 1910 to address prostitution, human trafficking and what was viewed at the time as immorality in general, makes it a crime to transport someone between states for the purpose of prostitution. The four defendants charged in the case unsealed last week were all charged with that crime, along with several others.

And of course, how could we forget to mention this from Spitzer's not-too-long-ago past:

As attorney general, he also had prosecuted at least two prostitution rings as head of the state’s organized crime task force.

In one such case in 2004, Mr. Spitzer spoke with revulsion and anger after announcing the arrest of 16 people for operating a high-end prostitution ring out of Staten Island.

“”This was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multitiered management structure,” Mr. Spitzer said at the time. ”It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring.”

I feel for anyone who gets popped for the crime of paying to get his dick wet. Really, it's a shame in most cases...this just doesn't happen to be one of them.

UPDATE 2: Sorry guys but this is a pretty big story, and I'm enthralled by it, so I'm going to keep posting worthless re-hashes of what I see on cable news and read at political blogs...

Looks like Spitzer will may be indicted based on this complaint filed in the Southern District of New York, and has been identified as "Client 9". The full complaint has been posted by the NYT here. But I pulled this interesting bit from it where the hooker "Kristin" talks to the home offices for the service.

LEWIS continued that from what she had been told "he" (believed to be a reference to Client-9) "would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think were safe - you know - I mean that . . . very basic things. . . . "Kristen" responded: "I have a way of dealing with that . . . I'd be like listen dude, you really want the sex? . . . You know what I mean." Near the end of the call, LEWIS and "Kristen" discussed "Kristen's" departure via Amtrak, the room that Client-9 had provided for "Kristen," and "Kristen's" share of the cash that Client-9 had provided to her. (Call 9750R).

Oh God this is too good...Does Spitzer have an asphyxiation fetish? Not safe...Could be not safe in a non-hygienic way, feces or the like, (who doesn't enjoy a good log on the chest?) but I'm guessing asphyxiation, etc. If I had to make a wild guess I'd say he isn't the dominant. But maybe he is.

BTW, I'm waiting for my call Fox, CNN, MSNBC. I'm there to do on-the-spot, studio analysis on this breaking story. Perhaps I can clear up any questions that might result from sexual information that leaks out. I'm great with fetishes. I'm even pretty good at figuring out where they come from. Where's my agent...? I need air time! Pronto!

Everybody Needs a Good Accountant

This Las Vegas CPA doesn't bother with the bullshit in his advertising:

2010 Olympics To Feature Extra Pole-Vaulting

A group of Canadian "sex trade workers" (you know, hookers) are fighting for the legal right to incorporate their co-op brothel. They want to get this done in time for the 2010 Olympics in Vancover so they can having people shouting "Oh, Canada" in at least 35 languages:

Brothels are illegal in Canada, but the country's prostitution laws have recently been challenged in the court as unconstitutional. Prostitution itself is legal, however solicitation, procuring or living off the avails of prostitution can land you in jail.

The group hopes to win an exemption from Parliament by showing it would be safer to have prostitutes work in a single facility in Vancouver that they control, rather than plying their trade on the streets.

The Conservative federal government has warned it will oppose the effort, which critics have said will only perpetuate the idea that prostitution is acceptable.

It took the group six months to draft a business plan and bylaws for the organizations, but it had no trouble from the British Columbia provincial government getting incorporated, [brothel spokeswoman Susan] Davis said.

That was probably the most relaxing lobbying session those provincial government officials ever had. The rest of the story is here.

Pussycat Preachers Pounce on Prostitutes

Jesus would be proud:

RIVERSIDE, Calif., Feb. 11 /Christian Newswire/ -- When young pastor Matt Brown announced he was supporting a ministry for women in the sex industry led by an x-stripper, he was expecting applause. Instead, he got cold stares and an e-mail inbox filled with angry letters. At issue was Heather Veitch, an x-stripper turned evangelist.

Expecting applause? How do not love this guy? Basically he said, "I want to work with a blond stripper with big tits. I'm going to give her $50,000 and follow her into strip clubs and porno sets. Appluad me, bitches." Seriously, I want to marry Pastor Brown. What balls.

More on that $50,000:

Instead of backing away from Heather, Pastor Brown put up $50,000 of church money to support the ministry. But in no time at all, a rumor got started that the $50,000 was being used by Brown to buy lap dances for himself. Brown suddenly found himself on the verge of losing his church facility housed on the campus of Southern California Baptist University.

A rumor..Gee, how do you think that rumor got started? Could it have something to do with giving $50,000 to a stripper? Even better, it was church money. Maybe I should get to know Jesus. I pay for my sexual addictions with my own hard-earned money. And sanity. And emotional stability. Oh, and physical well-being. You get the point. No one is helping me out.

The ex-stripper evangelist on her record:

For her part, Heather Veitch claims she is winning souls and that is what matters. For evidence, she has the documentary which shows a number of strippers making their first venture into church. "Now comes the hard part," Heather smiles.

I need names of churches please. Addresses would be nice also.

The documentary's web site, The Pussycat Preacher here. Article here. Heather's website here, where you can check out her blog, a gallery of pictures, and get booking information for private parties. Uh sorry, I mean "speaking engagements".

Thanks to Sean Higgins for the tip, who last I saw him was heading off to strip clubs with bible in hand 20 WWJD bracelets on his arm.

Amsterdam Mayor At It Again

Job Cohen:

"The romantic picture of the area is outdated if you see the abuses in the sex industry and that is why the council has to act," he said. "We don't want to get rid of prostitution but we do want to cut crime significantly."

Cohen said the city wanted to partially reverse the full legalization of prostitution introduced in the Netherlands in 2000 because it had not achieved its aim of bringing the profession out of the shadows and protecting sex workers

I'm not sure there's anything new here. Sounds like more of the same rhetoric from the Mayor, with a few creeps of increased regulation like increasing the legal age of prostitutes from 18-21.

This woman however, has it right:

Mariska Majoor, a former prostitute who now runs an information center in the red light district, said the city's plans could force hundreds of women out of work or underground.

"Where should the women go?" she asked. "They are only talking about criminals and gangsters. We're talking about a legal profession here ... They completely ignore the hundreds of women who are working of their own free will."

Full story here.

P.S. I hope this doesn't cut into the Amsterdam mainstay of scary, brutish, and completely British tourists that will make any American wonder how we got such a bad name overseas. The Brits are absolute animals anywhere, but throw them in Amsterdam? Forget about it...

Off and On

Off my vacation destination list:

El Alto, Bolivia.

Prostitutes in the Bolivian city of El Alto sewed their lips together Wednesday as part of a hunger strike to demand that the mayor reopen brothels and bars ordered closed after violent protests by residents last week.

On my vacation destination list:

Western Australia.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian barmaid has been fined for crushing beer cans between her bare breasts while an off-duty colleague has been fined for hanging spoons from her friend's nipples, police said Wednesday.

I Like My Bolivian Hookers Dirty and Agitated

Trouble in the streets of Bolivia:

LA PAZ (AFP) - Hundreds of outraged prostitutes are ready to fight a morality campaign targeting their trade by marching nude in the streets of Bolivia's capital, a spokeswoman said Thursday.

[...]

Lily, speaking on behalf of the prostitutes, warned that prostitutes would "march nude in the streets of La Paz" and threatened to forsake checks from health authorities.

[...]

Organizers of the morality campaign have demanded the mayor close several hundred illegal brothels and enforce a ban on minors visiting them. The activists have also called for ensuring the houses of prostitution operate a good distance from churches, schools and hospitals.

The police have sent in reinforcements to the turbulent area but the campaign has spread to other towns and provinces.

Protecting protesting prostitutes. A military action we could all get behind. Full article here.

Thanks to Sean Higgins for the link, who btw, has a delightful article, well worth a read, up on Modern Drunkard on the U.S. Prohibition Party. From the piece on scheduling an interview with the party's presidential candidate:

Scheduling an interview with a presidential candidate usually takes a lot of negotiation and many phone calls. Not so with Amondson. A Google search turned up his e-mail address, and about half an hour later he agreed to an hour-long interview on the following day.

“I have all the time in the world,” he explains.

His campaign headquarters? He doesn’t appear to have one. It turned out that the phone number was for a local public library where Amondson spends a lot of his free time.

Full article here.

Oh No Tom! Don't Leave Us!

Sizemore is done with the drugs...for good.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Tom Sizemore says he's done with drugs.

"I'm not trading my whole life for some powder," the 45-year-old actor told The Bakersfield Californian in a jailhouse interview published Friday.

"God's trying to tell me he doesn't want me using drugs because every time I use them I get caught," Sizemore said.

I know, I know, who's going to produce some of the finest dialogue known to man, in amateur-hooker-porn now? I'd say -- knowing Tom Sizemore like I don't; he won't soon forget his fans, and make a few more returns to a life of drugs and debauchery.

P.S.: I did my best, while here at work, to dig up a transcript, or link to the famous Sizemore-sex video. No luck. I'm not sure if its the same as his official video, "The Tom Sizemore Sex Scandal"-- where he claims to have had sex with Paris Hilton among other things. But the one I'm talking about involves 3 prostitutes and lots of drugs. And some hilarious dialogue. And possibly some cock-to-face-slapping. But I could be making that last one up. Or confusing it with my weekend. Who knows.

A Late, But Worthy Submission for 2007 Mother of the Year

From Saratoga...Florida:

Wendy Cook of 332 Caroline Street was arrested for prostitution after offering to perform sex on an undercover police officer for money Monday, said Schenectady police.

After arresting her, detectives learned that Cook's two children had been left with friends in a car nearby. Shortly thereafter, police found Cook's five-year-old daughter and eight-week-old son in Cook's car with two adults.

As detectives continued their investigation, they learned that Cook had been out all night smoking crack and snorting cocaine while in the company of her children.

Cook performed oral sex on at least two johns early Monday morning while her children were awake with her in the car's back seat.

Additionally, Cook snorted cocaine off her eight-week-old son's stomach while breastfeeding him.

Hardcore.

It's the type of parenting that will guarantee your kid will grow up to be a Nobel Prize winner. Or a sociopath who blogs. One or the other.

Full article here.

Italy Considering Prostitution Crackdown

Italian prostitutes may have to consider relocating to a country more favorable to their trade. The Italians are considering on the spot fines and shaming for the solicitors of prostitutes. Apparently they blame the addition of the 12 new members of the EU for the rise in prostitution. Story from the BBC.

Guess Which Handle is Rob's!!

I'm not sure any of this is safe for work; and the link to the message board that reviews Baltimore street walkers definitely isn't. Unless you work for an employer that doesn't mind you trolling online message boards, checking out reviews of the best street walkers Baltimore has to offer. If that happens to be you, please send an e-mail describing the application process for your place of work to tothepeople a_t gmail.com. I'd appreciate it.

Our readers might actually be familiar with this board (surprise! I wasn't) but this particular section of USASexGuide has been floating around the Baltimore blogosphere for awhile. Of course, everywhere else it's linked, it's accompanied by shock and horror. "How can people post such disgusting things??" Me: Uh..Dunno...Whistling by our archives "Who are these people?" Me: Current and future TtP readers?...I think some blog even threatened to alert the police. No worries, nothing better for them to do in West Baltimore!

Enjoy some excerpts.

On the merits of car searches, post-act:

Car searches are an important part of mongering to me. Over the years I've found make up, packs of cigarettes, cell phones ( had a car wreck over that one) syringes, pipes, rocks, pills, all kinds of stuff. One girl lost a pill of dope in the vehicle and we looked for a good half hour for it. I found it about two weeks later on the floor mat !! Another girl left her bra behind the seat of the pickup I had and forgot to retrive it after the act. Several days later I cleaned the p/u found the bra, washed it and put it in with my wifes stuff. She kept asking me how come she had seven bra's, when she only owned six. I denied everything not knowing what I had done, until one day I saw the girl on the stroll, figured it out and had to pull over I was laughing so hard. Needless to say we are divorced now.

Now whenever a SW leaves something legel in my vehicle I try very hard to get it back to them. I did collect panties for awhile but that's another story

Of course a typical question of the day in this forum seems to be, "Age. Does it matter?" Some opinions on the matter.

TBaby,

You seem to "know it all". Just like you knew that Heather was not 18 after two senior members had stated that they met her face to face and could tell she was at least 18. I think you said that I would be in a world of hurt if I dated and posted about her.

[...]

Hello Rook

Great pics, Baldy would be proud of you. I have dated Heather, she looks young, but told me she was 18. WTF is it with these aforesaid assholes, are thay going to have SW's fill out job applications, with photo ID, SS card and proof of citizenship?

The Monger business is like sex you have to fuck all the assholes!

Big Red

[...]

I disagree with fucking assholes. It is a personal thing, but I will agree to the girl with cum in her eye. I wouldn't ever ask the age. Frankly, if she knows how to fuck and suck, I don't care. Mind you, I don't like old hags though. I really wish I could have face fucked the girl. I am too timid and nice. I don't talk. For some reason, most think I look like LE, so I just hurry. It makes the evening kind of uneventful.

Who Doesn't Love a Little Big Mother-Daughter Romp

At $15 a pop, sex with this mom and daughter is a steal...Factor in the the combined weight of 700-800lbs it works out to something like a 1/2 a cent per pound for these plentiful ladies.

FORT PAYNE, Ala. -- A 62-year-old grandmother arrested in a prostitution sting in Fort Payne has begun serving a two month jail sentence.

[...]

The mother and daughter were arrested Aug. 1, after they allegedly both agreed to have sex with an undercover officer for $30 -- at $15 each.

Fort Payne Police Chief David Walker said the sting was carried out after his office received several tips that the women were engaged in illicit
activities.

Walker said the majority of the Duncan’s clientele was believed to be Hispanics.

I'm sure the city of Fort Payne thanks you Chief Walker, for making them safe from the menace of fat grandmothers fucking Hispanic day laborers. Alabama can rest easy now. Full article here.

And Now to ABC's Expert on Pimps and Hos, Bare Lee Legal

If you're like me, you're on the edge of your seat waiting for ABC News to out more people who have asked the DC Madam for, uh, a helping hand. You know, people like Bush's abstinence czar. Of course, outing people who use the services of sex workers raises some serious privacy issues. And when the outer is an (alleged) sex worker, it raises some serious integrity issues as well. So what do the hos think about this, I'm sure you're asking. Good question. Fortunately, they've started a new blog to cover the scandal and other issues. It's aptly titled, www.BoundNotGagged.com.

From their opening post:

In the story of alleged DC Madam, Deborah Jean Palfrey, one voice is conspicuously absent: ours, and our lips are, despite what you may have heard, hardly sealed.

We’re a group of educated, Internet-savvy, politically-game escorts, and we aren’t for hire. (Not here, anyway.) We’re apparently the exception to the rule, but for us, this is just business as usual. Of course, rich and powerful men want access to erotic companionship. Of course, Washington is a hotbed of hypocrisy. We know this not because we’ve been privy to really fantastic pillowtalk, which some of us have, but because we work the halls of government by day, as well.

We want to talk to you, but we might have to do it in private. We might have to do it in the dark. We might not be able to tell you our real names, but that doesn’t mean we have to be quiet about it, either.

We’re Deepthroated, bound, maybe, but certainly not gagged. And here, we’re going to go down- and dirty on Washington.

Via Stacey at the Desiree Alliance. Bonus Bill Frist "Fristing" joke here.

"Abstinence Only" Fed Official Quits Over Escort Flap

Today the Wa Post reported that Randall Tobias, deputy secretary of state for US foreign aid, quit abruptly when his name surfaced in a Washington escort scandal. The Wa Post failed to mention in its story something that Slate picked up:

neither ABC News nor the Post reported one highly relevant detail: Tobias is the Bush administration's leading advocate of abstinence-only programs abroad!

The Slate article provides a detailed quote from Tobias extolling the benefits of abstinence on Frontline that is very fun to read.

I love this escort scandal already and it is only going to get better as accused Jeane Palfrey starts to name names. On her web site, Palfrey also fingers Harland Ullman, former US Navy commander and the inventor of "shock and awe." Some more DC bigwigs are in for just that.