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Monday, March 10, 2008 12:00 AM

Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?

What accounts for the intense moral outrage from all corners over this private, consensual act between adults?
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Monday, March 10, 2008 04:02 PM

    Regardless of what one thinks of prostitution

    I have always found it very curious that one of the following, but not the other, is illegal:

    (a) Two people have sex, one of them gets paid for it;

    (b) Two (or more) people have sex, all of them get paid for it, and it is videotaped and sold to third parties as a commodity.

    I have yet to hear a convincing argument why this difference makes any actual sense.

    —DCLaw1 Read DCLaw1's other letters

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