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according to the sunday telegraph version, "the MI5 agent's prostitute wife engineered the sting. The man was a surveillance operative with several years of service. His wife, 38, is believed to have approached the News of the World when she realised that Mr Mosley, a regular client, had booked five prostitutes for a sex session costing £2,500." The assertion that the agent's wife did this on her own is an instance of what is called 'plausible deniability' in action.
anyway, following the subtext I was eliciting yesterday, it strikes me that real men, by definition, neither masturbate nor employ prostitutes, because they have gained sufficient status within the imaginary 'tribe' to be able to demand women and get them. This curious sort of thinking not only underlies mass media "normality" but remains unchallenged, because no one dares to spell it out in print. Advertisers - even salon.com advertisers - can be expected to complain if such things are said openly, since they undermine the motivational logic of their advertising campaigns.
Salon.com is plagued by a persistent pop-under, which I cannot seem to block, and get nowhere else. The combination of switching to Firefox and installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 has left me without weapons against these bloody things, but at least this one seems at the moment to be content to advertise american express credit cards, nothing more sinister than that.
