Shut the fuck up. You don't know a thing about the prostitution business.

A large percentage of prostitutes do not have pimps.

Those who do, do not keep 1/3 of their earnings, or 1/4, or 1/10. They keep NOTHING. If they could accumulate savings, they could leave. Pimps can't have that.

It is both better and worse than you say, but the bottom line is, you're a bloviating, ignorant idiot. SHUT UP.

But look on the bright side: You can give up the cash-and-dash scam and focus on your writing.

Oh, wait, that's an even darker side. Alas.

Oh, right! It's Ben Dunne.

If the LW were female, the harpies and the white knights here would be telling her to follow her heart and leave, Since the LW is male, they're demanding that he stay. Cary's not much better, but at least he urged the guy to think about it.

To the respondents who threw shame and blame at the LW: You're human garbage.

...pompous gasbags like John Anderson can learn the difference between "enjoying" scenes of violence, and putting them into perspective as part of a dramatic presentation.

But then neither they nor the LW could be self-righteous asshats.

The LW sucks, the respondents suck, Cary sucks.

LW: They can't force you to watch anything. You're not tied to a chair with a Clockwork Orange rig on your eyes. Find a way to deal with what they like and what you need without being a self-righteous idiot or a doormat. Most Salon women post like self-righteous jerks and act like doormats. Don't go to either extreme.

Respondents: Shut up. You're just reinforcing the LW's stick-up-the-ass attitude. She has a right not to be subjected to crap, but she doesn't have the right to tell everyone else what to do all the time. There's such a thing as reasonable mutual accommodation. Learn what it means and stop being human garbage.

Offer Joboo rum, beer, cigar, banana.

It's amusing how many of you think it is okay for her to steal the child. Women don't own their children, and fathers do have rights. Salonistas like to forget that fact, of course.

As for those asserting that the LW is a victim of domestic violence, it sounds more like she is a PERPETRATOR of domestic violence. Do women also have the unilateral right to abuse their husbands?

Salon sexists are human garbage.

Yeah, like she said this in the privacy of her own home. Like she didn't use the media to spread her idiotic message. Like she hadn't received any public criticism for it already. Like Fox's bias isn't well-known.

Ambush? Only if she's as stupid as the average Salon reader.

Find something worth doing that appeals to you, get whatever training you need to do it, then work hard at it.

Man up, LW, and play the hand you've got. It's not as if you have a choice.

Cary caters to narcissistic women, and nowhere more so than in this case, where he suggests that the LW fall in love with her narcissism.

As the late Donald Westlake once wrote, the frightening thing about women like the LW is not that they are a pretty package with nothing inside. That's not so bad. The problem is that the only thing inside the package is thoughts about the package.

The usual harpies thought his advice was great. I couldn't agree less.

Someday you can be a self-congratulating, pretentious idiot who can't spell simple French words correctly.

Hey, just checking. Some people like the horsey look. Besides, you can't spell "lamoyne" without the letters "L-A-M-E".

Thanks for the clarification!

I request a clarification: Is a "horse chick" a woman who likes horses and has the income or family background to enable her to own and stable them? I hope it's not a remark about her appearance; that doesn't sound too good to me.

Yeah, that plan makes a lot of sense.

LW, the world is only marveling that you wrote your letter to an emo narcissist advice columnist. Way to stay on pattern!

I notice Cary is still whining about that "boundaries" remark. Obviously the truth hurts.

So why not keep shutting up and let the LW take your job?

Alcoholic past, no real job skills, bad boundaries, too much information...if anything, you're overqualified.

So on the one hand, you want and expect Obama to appoint a "progressive" (read: loony left) candidate, but on the other hand you disdain Republicans for anticipating that he will do this.

Salon psychopathy is a mental disorder in which one despises the opposition for acting as if they had free will and free agency. They would deny their opposition the right to exist or resist, if they could.

Never vote for any candidate favored by Salon psychopaths.

...that "Lysistrata" is one of her STDs.

...and you have a large number of marriages today, possibly a majority.

For many women, work is optional. For most men, it isn't.

...we'd hear from the usual harpies about how every woman has a Goddess-given right to satisfy her every whim, that any man who objected was a sexist controlling pig, blah blah empowerment blah blah jealousy blah blah blah.

Instead, the harpies and the white knights tell him not to do it.

Shut the fuck up.

This letter has been answered already by Dan Savage:

http://www.thestranger.com/SavageLove?oid=37iW5

Did you know that Dear Prudence published a response to this same letter today?

I am sorry to be the bearer of this terrible, unexpected, previously unrevealed news.

I have a feeling we're seeing a trend that will be reproduced in the responses to future Cary Tennis columns. Every day, someone's going to claim that the letter also ran on Slate. It's gonna be the rickroll of Salon! We can call this game...Cary Tennis!