The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...

Didn't make it any easier for them to get it, or at least to get away with it. Remember: powerful people (and I take the Fraysters point that it isn't just automatically men) can't just sleep with anyone they please, because the average potential partner poses an enormous risk for them. I assume you pay for sex in that situation because you want and need discretion, not because you feel like throwing your family savings away. Seems to have backfired in Spitzer's case, but the moral of that story is, imo: you can't hide from Big Brother.