Sex Work

And another political sex scandal. When will this ridiculous, hypocritical, tittering at salacious stories, political backstabbing bullshit end? WHEN?? Two notable Democrats "smeared" by sex scandals (does ANYONE out there smell Karl Rove??? Hello, it's an election year w/ the Democrats primed to win big), two young women just trying to earn a few bucks harassed by law enforcement. Wow, people like sex. Wow, older men will pay outrageous prices for sex with young, cute, white girls. Wow, a young cute white girl can make in ten minutes what her friends w/ straight jobs make in a day, or a week. Wow, politicians will use law enforcement, the media, and sex to smear one another. This shit is just getting sadder & sadder. Legalize ALL adult sex work. Make a national mandate to promote healthy sexuality as part of a national health care plan. Stop using sex as a weapon, period. And, please, PLEASE, stop all the salacious crap about politicians' sex lives. Can it be THAT hard to do??? Really???

A gas station attendant was fired from a Mid-Western gas station for giving away a full tank of gas in exchange for oral sex. After making the deal with a female motorist they both entered the rest room. This practice went on for many months until a company accountant noticed an error. The employee confessed to having oral sex with over two hundred women until he was caught. The president of the company refused to press charges because he said he did the same thing when starting out as a gas station attendant.

Last week Audacia Ray was interviewed on the Brian Lehrer show (WNYC , an NPR affiliate). Her interview was positioned as a counterpoint to an interview with Sonia Ossorio, president of NOW NYC (NYC's National Organization of Women chapter).

Chris has a great blog post about this here.

You can listen to the clip here: