"Is It Safe?"
That's a line from an old favorite movie of mine, Marathon Man, from Dustin Hoffman's great scene with the sadistic Nazi dentist (Lawrence Olivier). I was reminded of it by this line from one of The New York Times articles about Spitzer -- now forever to be known as "Client 9":
After her encounter with Client 9, the prostitute told the booker for the agency that it had gone well, and the booker told her that he, in an apparent reference to Client 9, sometimes asked the women “to do things that, like, you might not think were safe.”
My question for you...what sort of "things" do you think they're talking about?
I figured it was some sort of toaster fetish, but I don't want to say too much more about that in case anyone thinks I have that fetish too. I DO NOT!
Or else it was sex w/o a condom....
jerry at March 13, 2008 1:13 AM
Anal sex without a condom?
Amy Alkon at March 13, 2008 6:25 AM
No just straight sex w/o a condom. We men hate the rain coats. I obviously have no idea how it differs for women, but for us, it just not the same.
Be afraid if they ever make robots, that are closer to the feel of a woman then a condom. Western civilization will collpase soon after.
Jim at March 13, 2008 7:04 AM
Asphyxia maybe?
SeanH at March 13, 2008 7:13 AM
Bareback. Definitely.
Gretchen at March 13, 2008 7:46 AM
Last night at dinner I found out a friends ex-wife, who became unemployed two years ago, now has a tax-free thriving business in Spokane as a dominatrix. She gets $250 an hour to berate men and women, and there is no traditional sex involved. Her first client was one of her college professors.
eric at March 13, 2008 8:49 AM
Eric, if you've never seen it, Eating Raoul.
jerry at March 13, 2008 9:23 AM
Stuff that's not safe? Clearly it was paying her in easily traceable bank transfers. Definitely unsafe!
Quizzical1 at March 13, 2008 9:52 AM
I saw that years ago- must Netflix it again!
eric at March 13, 2008 10:30 AM
I think the unsafe things involved Vaseline, plastic tubing and a yak.
Kimberly at March 13, 2008 12:06 PM
whatever it was, and i say this with full doubt to the bareback theory, it was certainly something that he couldn't do with his wife.
one of the hookers on how she would address this if it came up: "you want sex, right?" That's a pretty good way to handle a situation where a client is asking for something that's really out there. And i don't think she said that because the client was requesting ye ol' bareback.
j.d. at March 13, 2008 12:43 PM
From the various reports, it appears to have been eschewing a condom, the request for which was denied.
Which actually makes me have *less* respect for the guy than if it were something really kinky. While I tend to think that a desire to be, say, dominated may indicate a few issues in one's psyche, most of us have a few issues in our psyche. If it had been something like golden showers or S&M that he really *couldn't* get with his wife, I still wouldn't find his behavior okay given the situation involved, but I would find it a bit more...human, let's say.
Instead, this married guy wanted to cheat on his wife with a woman who had multiple other sex partners without even using a condom to prevent himself somewhat from picking up nasty communicable diseases. Ugh, ugh, ugh. Did he think how he was going to explain things if his (presumably) faithful wife of many years came home from the doctor with a diagnosis of a gonorrhea flareup? Or worse, with HIV or something similar? Hell, what if the prostitute recognized him and decided that getting pregnant with the spawn of the Governor was a one-way ticket to a better life?
What a repulsive individual. I'm glad he had the bare decency to resign.
marion at March 13, 2008 2:33 PM
Well said Marion!
eric at March 13, 2008 5:22 PM
Marion, I agree re: the no condom thing, but I definitely don't think the desire to be dominated (or to dominate, for that matter) means someone has "issues." I think that's an old-fashioned sort of prudish view of S&M-style sex, which is actually fairly common today, at least in the milder forms.
Jennifer at March 14, 2008 11:00 AM
"Be afraid if they ever make robots, that are closer to the feel of a woman then a condom. Western civilization will collapse soon after."
And with my Marilyn Monrobot, I'll be there riding it down all the way, a yippin' and a hollerin' like Slim Pickens in Strangelove.
Todd Fletcher at March 14, 2008 12:30 PM
i think it's GOT to be something more than simply not using a condom - i'm betting big money on asphyxiation, probably while tied up, the danger being that she wouldn't be able to "un-asphyxiate" herself if it was going too far -- it would be entirely up to him to make the judgment call as to how much she could handle.
trina at March 14, 2008 1:59 PM
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