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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
Thursday, March 13, 2008 - Posts
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Liza and Maureen : I guess I think that asking whether Ashley is a "victim" is the wrong question. I agree, whatever her childhood circumstances, she's a moral agent and she made a bunch of choices that landed her in that hotel room with Eliot Spitzer. Read More...
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Rosa, for me the age-old dilemma you pose comes down to three statistics. From Venkatesh: Street hookers in Chicago experience an average of six incidents of physical abuse a year. Higher-end prostitutes in New York experience an average of two. Not much Read More...
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Conversations like this always make me feel like Bill Bennett in a skirt, but even if you're the highest-paid hooker in history—and lucky enough not to wind up getting beaten anyway—prostitution and self-respect still seem mutually exclusive to me. Because Read More...
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Seconding Ellen: Yes, it's striking, isn't it, how many women have been mortified and collaterally damaged by this scandal. The wife. The daughters. Vacuous Ashley (maybe). Clearly, whatever else it is, prostitution is not a victimless crime. Or not in Read More...
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I think it’s worth reading Ashley’s MySpace page pretty carefully. I guess I have a lot less sympathy for someone whose rent troubles seem fueled as much by delusions of grandeur as by poverty, abuse, or lack of education. If she had so much trouble paying Read More...
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Oldest profession = oldest feminist dilemma in the book, ladies: "It's my body, so why shouldn't I make money from it if I want to? Why is selling sexual services different from getting paid to do physical labor/give blood/provide donor eggs/give someone Read More...
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I want to talk about Spitzer's daughters. What happens to them now? I'm hoping Silda will file for divorce as early as humanly possible. But the daughters, who I think are 14, 16, and 18—the oldest a mere four years younger than the whore whom daddy was Read More...
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So no, I wasn't. Or at least what I meant was, there's this lipstick-feminist notion out there that prostitution is a victimless crime, that being a high class hooker is a sort of glamorous life, particularly in this new online world where nobody has Read More...
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Hanna and Rachael , I too was struck by the vulnerability of Ashley that emerged in today's New York Times ' profile. I noticed a "primary source" ("Hot Document" speak) for the profile was the young woman's MySpace page, which by " Thursday at noon ...appeared Read More...
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Whoa, there, Nellie! Hanna, you're at least kinda sorta kidding , right? About initially being "lured into this notion that ... it was poor Eliot Spitzer who got played by a young vixen, a conniving madam, petty payment schemes, and a culture that suffocates Read More...
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Hanna, Your post about Ashley Dupré has me wondering whether her story gives lie to some of the arguments made for legal but well-regulated prostitution. Isn't the ideal version of legalized prostitution something like the Emperors' Club? An agency that Read More...
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Over the last couple of days of reading XX Factor, I have been lured into this notion that this scandal is not about powerful men having their way, that in fact it was poor Eliot Spitzer who got played by a young vixen, a conniving madame, petty payment Read More...
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