There are many issues I have to catch up with so let’s get going.
The suicide of the DC Madam was a minor story on the world stage but it hit something in me. As long as I can remember, I have been railing at the utter stupidity and waste of human and monetary resources, at policing prostitution, which in my opinion should be legalized and controlled.
I have written countless letters to the editor and blogs about how the “oldest profession” has been around since day one because it serves a valid need.
If the “need” will NEVER go away, which it won’t, why not make the profession healthy and safe as well as tax producing. It is common sense at its most basic level so why don’t we get it?
We are a nation of American Christians (not any other form of Christian) and that makes us Neanderthals when it comes to social issues and we will not allow a progressive social thought into our lives even if not doing so causes us and our country, pain and suffering.
The DC Madam (Deborah J. Palfrey) recently committed suicide by hanging in a shed at her mother’s Florida retirement home; her mother found her. She vowed not to spend the rest of her life in jail and intimated that death would be preferable and why the hell did she have to make that choice?
Her clients, Washington, D.C. big shots that today are sitting alive and well with their wives, the ones that could not or would not service them properly, while the madam that arranged for their sexual servicing is cold, dead and buried before her time; do you see a problem here?
If she offered those same services for free she would be alive today.
For the life of me I don’t see why we are so blind to reality and so, oh so stupid when it comes to our own sexual needs and behavior that we so fervently try to deny. Maybe the myriad sexual crimes that occur in this country every day could be minimized by a legal, healthy and safe prostitution industry – did you ever think of that?
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