http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/blackmail/default.aspxTags: blackmailenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.2)http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/03/12/how-hard-is-it-to-get-extramaritally-laid-anyhow.aspxWed, 12 Mar 2008 16:12:00 GMTb38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:1901Dahlia Lithwick0http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/comments/1901.aspxhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=1901Welcome to XX Factor Judith , and thanks for your thoughtful post. My only quibble is with the assumption that Spitzer somehow had to pay for sex (pathetic), which then unspools the freight train of humiliations you’ve just described. Is it really all...(<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/03/12/how-hard-is-it-to-get-extramaritally-laid-anyhow.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1901" width="1" height="1">spitzerprostitutionblackmailextramarital sexhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/03/12/spitzer-pathos-not-power.aspxWed, 12 Mar 2008 14:30:00 GMTb38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:1899Judith Shulevitz0http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/comments/1899.aspxhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=1899In defense of Spitzer, I have to say that the great-man-abusing-power narrative does not seem apt in his case. In fact, it seems rather out-of-date. If you read the wiretaps closely, you'll discover that, as a consumer of sexual services, Spitzer was...(<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/03/12/spitzer-pathos-not-power.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1899" width="1" height="1">spitzerprostitutionblackmailextramarital sex