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Glenn, I love your work and your posts and you have brought up mountains of issues to think about in regard to the Spitzer affair and ones that call for outrage as well. But I think those who have raised the notion here that prostitution is very often inherently demeaning to women have an extremely valid point and deserve to be treated better than some of the more hostile responses indicate ("get off the cross" "you're no different than religious fundamentalists", etc.). And being gay is no kind of indication that misogyny is not part of the picture. The increases in violence world-wide towards women, the huge increase in sex trafficking, child pornography, the way women are so totally objectified in many cultures--all this is something to be taken seriously. And for the person who brought up Japan--Japan is one of the most ragingly sexist countries on earth--women are treated like dirt there. I think many men like to pretend that there is nothing psychologically damaging about being a prostitute--that enables them to keep the system going. I don't think anyone here mentioned the fact that Spitzer was probably exposing his wife to a host of STDs--didn't she have some kind of right to know about this?
