what won't a man risk for a piece of ass?

if by now you haven't already heard, news broke in the last hour or so that new york governor eliot spitzer, heretofore known as "client 9," has been ensnared in some sort of high-priced prostitution ring. though he held a press conference and made no mention of resigning, there are rumors circulating that he will do so.

this whole saga immediately made me take a step back in amazement once again as to the great lengths and great risks that a man will go to in order to satisfy himself sexually. here's a man who, just a couple of years ago, was one of the paragons of excellence within the democratic party, often mentioned as a possible party torchbearer in future presidential races. and here he is today, already embroiled deeply in a scandal to smear a state republican leader that threatened to bring him down, a man whose career is in shambles. the guy was willing to risk everything that he had built over the course of his lifetime politically, not to mention the risk of destroying his family, just to get laid.

think about that.

is it not almost mind-boggling? as a man, a man whose libido has at times in his life has been through the roof mind you, i can kinda sympathize with such a thing, but not really. i've never been unable to reel it in. i've never risked so much for a fuck. i've never paid for sex. try as i might to comprehend, it's hard for me to wrap my brain around. and i really, desperately, want to understand this.

the thing so damning politically for spitzer about all of this, as it generally always is when the disgraced is someone who has lauded his own ethics and morals while decrying the distinct lack of morality and ethics in others, is that spitzer has crusaded against prostitution rings. he has climbed upon his moral bully pulpit and rained down judgment upon the people who run them and participate in them.

was he perhaps doing favors for the people who were providing him services by attempting to squash their competition, and in doing so insuring that he and his preferred client status would be kept protected and secret? seriously, the question begs! would the same question not be asked of a politician who was pushing to regulate an industry while simultaneously owning stock in a certain company within the same industry?

someone i immediately thought of after hearing about all of this was louisiana senator david vitter, himself caught up in a prostitution ring last year, one in which it was rumored that he had a penchant for shitting diapers for his whores. vitter, against all odds, has been able to weather the storm and maintain his place in the senate, largely by being apologetically forthright about his mistakes and thus earning him some degree of sympathy from members of his party and his constituency. i wonder if spitzer will follow the same playbook and if so, what will the reaction be to it? certainly new yorkers are more open to their political leaders engaging in acts of sexual deviancy than louisianians are, right? like vitter, it appears as though spitzer is also a bit of a fetishist, at least judging by a quote from one of the girls who serviced him who claimed that spitzer was fond of engaging in acts "that you might not think were safe."

hmmmm...

asphyxiation perhaps?

there was once a great uproar when spitzer was quoted as threatening another lawmaker by stating, "i'm a fucking steamroller and i'll roll over you or anybody else!" as alex balk so rightly pointed out, perhaps we all should have paid less attention to "steamroller" aspect of that quote and more attention to the "fucking" part of it.


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