Letters to the Editor
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Silder attacks
To assume one is knowledgeable about another's sex life and make suggestions like Schlessinger has done about Mrs. Spitzer is pure Yellow journalism, more akin to the old Hearst crowd.
I am sure there are marriages where the woman, for good or bad reasons, denies her husband sex. And I am sure there are husbands whose inhibitions keep their libido a secret from their wives. "Marry the virgin and make love to the whore" is an ancient problem brought on my the weird idea that sex is somehow sinful. Religious taboos cause more problems than unsympathetic wives.
For a number of years it has been popular to picture the husband as a bit of an imbecile, only fit to play with toys, and now women as airheads. When we do this kind of generalizations about race or intelligence we get properly whacked across the mouth.
My personl judgment of Elliot Spitzer sank beneath the waves, not because of his fancy whore, but because he had the poor grace to bring his wife to the microphone to help prop him up. Shameless and unforgiveable.