At Least There is Something We do Not Need to Worry About....

....Or do we. A friend of mine reminded me that playing a prostitute on TV or in the movies is very different from actually having to live through that life. In a movie an actress can feel sexy, sensual and beautiful and does not feel the same terrible sadness and often horror that many women who are hookers do feel. If you capture that sense of desperation, and isolation you should win a Oscar.

And if you are a hooker, a real one, you know exactly what I am talking about. You'd say, "maybe lose a few teeth or get a nice scar after an angry trucker gives you the monkey wrench love tango. Of course that will lower your price and you will no longer be able to claim the mantle, high priced." For anyone who has seriously studied the issue, within the context of prostitution, sex can be nothing more than violence. It is a sad reality.

It is a sad reality that men subject women to this or that women agree to it in the first place. It often goes hand and hand with drug addiction and trafficking. Pimps like guns- because to traffic in human beings you need power over them and what better way to find your inner pimp then buy a Smith & Wesson or Glock and threaten those around you with it. You know, "you gotta keep em in line, yo." A statement I actually heard at the doctor's office.

I know it may sound a little moralistic, but men and women out there why not try loving each other. That seems to work out OK in the end. Some people out there would give their left nut for real love and that is what pimps prey on right?

But being a high priced call girl is a little different. If ever there was a victimless crime, this is it. It still does not exclude the fact that women used in this way have serious emotional and often mental problems as a result, but it does give one the comfort of knowing, "at least they are well paid." You get to sleep with politicians, and ministers, and rich old pervs. It is not a bad gig when you have 80K in graduate school bills is it? It is like being an insane housewife from one of the square states- with the exception that there is more variety than a loopey soccer mom's sugar dad.

Anyway, it is much easier than playing a real prostitute in a movie or on TV, or having the chutzpah to try to win an Oscar.

I want to contrast two very different stories that are related in a quirky way to corruption in one state and prostitution in another.

The first about the unlikelihood of high priced prostitution in Delaware:

http://delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080312/NEWS01/803120329/1006/NEWS

The second is about convicted businessman from Delaware who sent over $150,000 likely to a "high priced hooker" in Las Vegas.

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080317/NEWS/80317034/-1/updates&GID=5euRxk5C8hgphe6oWHpRQcQdN0Z+3oyu7UlBcYmnjgk%3D

I wonder if he sent his money to the "Love Ranch?"

No, not the one that breeds llamas.

Or the one that breeds rabbits.

You see, Delaware is such a small state, we are far too smooth to have brothels here when when the drunk or horny can solicit them from Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York or Las Vegas.

Wonderful idea but not very discreet in the age of immediately identifiable electronic transfers and video cameras, if you ask me...but what do I know?

Of course, I always recommend that if you plan to engage in salacious behavior whether you are a politician or not you visit the blog "Meat" for how to protect yourself from the less than pleasant "gifts" of prostitution....

http://pieceofmeat.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/protect-your-meat/

A Libertarian Martin Luther King Jr. Day post

In which we travel into interesting waters . . . (for a fairly long trip, so be prepared) Dr. King's 1968 book, Where do we go from here: chaos or community? , is profound in that it criticizes anti-poverty programs for their piecemeal approach, as John Schlosberg of the Center for a Stateless Society [C4SS] observes: King noted that the antipoverty programs of the time “proceeded from a premise that poverty is a consequence of multiple evils,” with separate programs each dedicated to individual issues such as education and housing. Though in his view “none of these remedies in itself is unsound,” they “all have a fatal disadvantage” of being “piecemeal,” with their implementation having “fluctuated at the whims of legislative bodies” or been “entangled in bureaucratic stalling.” The result is that “fragmentary and spasmodic reforms have failed to reach down to the profoundest needs of the poor.” Such single-issue approaches also have “another common failing — ...

Libertarian National Committee Deathwatch Part 1

As the LNC continues to lurch towards collapse, with the latest news of mass layoffs at HQ, I've decided to begin tracking those things leading the national party to irrelevance, even as state and local parties gain power. As news, rumors and rhetoric break out, I shall chronicle them in this ongoing series at Delaware Libertarian. Organizations approaching failure have a number of characteristics. One of the most striking is renunciation of their purpose and effort to reinvent themselves as a "me-too" provider of services in the marketplace. In this, the LNC has been on a collision course with destiny for a while now. Recently, for example, it hired Republican Party web site developer TerraEclipse to redesign the LNC web site . Terra created a web site very similar to those of the clients it brags most about -- far-right Republican conservatives like Tom McClintock and BJ Lawson. A quick look at the web site they built for the LNC is instructive. The tagline on the ...

The disturbing decline of the Delaware blogosphere: a very unfortunate Around the Horn (even if it's not Friday)

I've noticed a change in my own blog-checking habits over the past several weeks, and I don't know if it's just me or the reality of the last month of a divisive political campaign. I automatically used to check out Delawareliberal first and several times a day, because it was where I could find edgy, thought-provoking, and (dare I say it) funny banter going on. These days visit several other spots first, and my visits to DL are both shorter and less engaged. Why? Because the combination of invading neo-con commenters with the stridency of some of the major contributors has led to such pleasant exchanges as a post dedicated to labeling another blogger racist by donviti, whose own sense of provocative humor is generally so far out there that he makes John Belushi doing Samurai bartender on the SNL look positively pro-Asian. Or I can find Delawaredem and jason periodically spewing the idea that anybody who is not a liberal or progressive Democrat is somehow a non-American,...

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