Classy. Nice work. You've never been wrong about something you've written and then kept championing your point, even when proven wrong, time and time again. Right?

But hey, as long as your slinging shit then you are doing your job as resident troll.

Stay classy.

With your wang.

But let's ask this: why is prostitution so stigmatized? Is it inherently bad to the degree that it's made out to be - always degrading, always exploitative of women, always promoting human trafficking, etc.? Would this be the case even if it were legal and regulated?

Look, you may not agree with it, but prostitution is illegal, and therefore carries a non-zero amount of shame with it. Also, reasonable people can disagree as to how much shame is associated with prostitution, it's a matter of morality, not a matter of intelligence. If you actually made a cogent argument, more people might agree with you.

I got no problem with Ashley Dupre using her fifteen minutes to further the career she actually wanted, rather than the career she settled for. Good on her.

Some of them find about as much in committing murder and rape, apparently.

By the same logic you use, I could argue that until Loving v. Virginia, interracial couples should have felt shame. I could argue that until Garner v. Texas, Texas homosexuals should be shameful.

The shame associated with prostitution derives from cultural attitudes towards sex in general, and suppressive attitudes towards women's sexuality in particular. The law derives from the shame, and not the other way around.

According to Greg Palast, his public shaming was a political hit, meant to shut him up and make an example of him. I personally care far less who he's fucking than who's fucking me, and in this case it's the financial firms he was going after. And they ain't using lube and there won't be no reach-around.

the real story as always is being buried in the tidal wave of moral authority and judgement - ashley dupre may be a whore, but elliot spitzer is a married man and was a public servant and the only person responsible for bring down elliot spitzer is the man himself. his dumbass choices and his hubris brought him down.

it'd be so refreshing if women in the media would stop bashing his wife and the prostitute and each other and maybe write something provocative about the culture of hypocrisy and thinking they're above the law of the public servants we have running our government. elliot spitzer's dumbass decision to repeatedly pay lots of money for sex is really the least of our worries, i expect.

and in the meanwhile, the MSM is a tool of the patriarchy, same as it ever was.