I'd argue that the high-priced ones are very, very rare. The hooking equivalent of a flawless diamond. Most sex industry workers-hookers, porn stars, etc-had their ability to choose taken away a long time ago by molesters. And drugs, that they use to kill the pain of having been used sexually at such a young age.

It also helps that her story puts her on the "correct" side of the political divide - liberals are never called to account for sexual infidelity or any other hypocrisy. Only conservatives.

Conservatives are usually the ones making a big fuss about "family values." When you're spending a lot of time preaching about the horrors of extramarital sex and then are caught having an affair, people are going to call you a hypocrite. When you preach abstinence-only education and your teenage daughter gets knocked up, people are going to laugh at you. Spitzer got called on his behavior because he'd set himself up as a watchdog for other people's morals.

I don't know much about the life of a prostitute. The only one I know personally is a man, and he did it for a few years in college for extra money. He says he had a good time.

>> liberals are never called to account for sexual infidelity or any other hypocrisy.

Oh for Christ's sake. Should we list all the liberals, like John Edwards, who have been piloried in the media for infidelity? Can we get back to the hookers now?

PS- The only one I know was a high paid escort putting herself through law school.

The conservative/liberal divide when it comes to prostitution is not as clear-cut as some make it out to be. The "world's oldest profession" is an ultra-traditional role for women, after all. Progressive reformers were in the forefront of the campaign to criminalize brothels in the 19th & 20th centuries, & radical feminists of the Dworkin/MacKinnon ilk are still shrieking about it now.

Brooke/Belle is a class act. That's good enough for me.

">> liberals are never called to account for sexual infidelity or any other hypocrisy.

Oh for Christ's sake. Should we list all the liberals, like John Edwards, who have been piloried in the media for infidelity? Can we get back to the hookers now?"

As I recall, the media was very reluctant to discuss Mr. Edwards' actions, and only did so after a scandal rag essentially caught him at a hotel, trying to meet on the down-low the daughter he refused to recognize as his own.

I doubt the same publications would have been so reticent about reporting on Mr. Edwards' behavior had he been a GOP luminary. Moreover, the same publication would have likely quickly found the proper rage at such extensive and practiced lying regarding the matter. Finally, does anyone still believe that Mr. Edwards' affair with this woman was his first? My guess is that, like Clinton, there are plenty of women who could--and would--tell of past incidents. But those stories are not stories, apparently.

Oh and Mr. Edwards did make his story-book marriage a centerpiece of his campaign appeal to day-dreaming housewives across America. He pretty much dared the media to look into whether he really was so starry-eyed in love with his wife. Media did not take him up on the dare until they could not ignore it.

> Should we list all the liberals,
> like John Edwards, who have been
> piloried in the media for infidelity?

By liberal media? John Edwards (and probably Eliot Spitzer too) might well have sailed onward if everyone were reading only Wapo and the NY Times.... Notice how unresponsive lefty media have been to Climategate. The continuing collapse of these mainstream, old-school enterprises has made them more partisan, not less, even as they whine about the partisanship of the nimble information distributors who are burying them.

> Can we get back to the hookers now?

Yes. There's a person in my life (at some distance) who's indulging with call girls at a rapid clip even as other financial responsibilities are being ignored in this difficult year.

But stories like this allege that these hookers who don't walk the streets are supposed to be admired in some way, if only by the embrace of libertarian principle.

No. The fact that they move silently through some neighborhoods and aren't leading lives as crack addicts doesn't remove them from the continuum of misbehavior for which their lessor sisters are rightly loathed, and taxation is just the start of it. I'd bet there's always something shady about the lives of the people who employ these servants.

> Brooke/Belle is a class act.

I was certain that the wretched, smirking social concept of "class" was destined to die –unmourned– with Sinatra. I've had other disappointments in modern life as well.