The D.C. Madam hung herself. Presumably over the guilty verdict that was handed out over her prostitution conviction last month. The so-called "ring" earned her at least $2 million. That's where the conflict starts.
We have a conflict over sex in our (American) society. Sex sells almost everything, and sex even sells pills that are designed to help us have more, lasting and (they say) better sex. However, when it comes down to actually having sex, we have a problem.
We aren't supposed to pay for it, unless we're in Nevada and we're not allowed to talk about it unless we're on satellite radio or the Internet. Confused? We all are.
So, the courts charge and convict people like Deborah Jeane Palfrey and others who run professional escort services that are called Escort Services because we can't call them what they really are. Sex for hire services. If we could call them Sex for Hire Services the courts would have no one to try and convict and maybe they could save their time and energy for the real criminals. You know them? The ones who kill and harm people or steal their money. Those kinds of criminals.
Sex is big business because we're told that it matters. Advertising tells us and our own libido tells us. Working against it is the illegality of seeking it out and (God forbid) paying for it. It's confusing, but then, so are a lot of things.
We are sold food products that are advertised as being "satisfying" or necessary for us to feel good. We are then told that we are too fat because we eat too much food. We are sold credit cards that tell us they are necessary for those "priceless" moments in our lives, and then told that we have too much credit card debt. We are sold giant motor vehicles because they tell us that they are "Utilitarian" and safer than the rest. Then, we are told that they use too much costly gasoline and harm the environment because they take up more space than our fat asses.
It's a conflict that is self-inflicted. We do it to ourselves and it happens so quickly and efficiently that we don't even know it until we stand back in our sexually satisfied, bloated belly and empty-wallet-from-high-gas-price state and realize that we are being played for suckers by both ends of the game.
The end of the game that matters is the one that can put us in prison for solicitation or default or wind us up in the hospital for clogged arteries from eating too many French fries.
In the end, we are powerless to resist because we like what we want and want what we like. We like sex, food and stuff. Stuff costs money that we don't have, and the advertisers play our common sense against our desires.
Desire always wins.
And we always lose.
3 comments:
this is so true. i have a whole philosophy on issues involving the fact that every thing surrounding sex is expected in this country but the act itself is taboo.
or like the miley cyrus vanity fair pics...same thing. they take issue with that but not her down on her knees writhing around on stage on american idol?
double standard should be a country.
I saw a couple of those Miley Cyrus photos. Somebody called them "pornographic", which is a term that always makes me laugh. I'm thinking that person has never seen actual pornography, because if they had, I don't think they could equate the naked back of a teenager with some of the stuff that real pornography entails.
"This should be rated X!" they say, and it's usually two girls kissing or somebody's naked breast. Jesus.
i think this chick was murdered.
i dont believe she hung herself and wrote two suicide notes.
6 years really isn't that long...especially if you have capital hill in your little black book.
somethin fishy...besides the smell of those girls she hookered out.
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