Stallman on Spitzer

[greggh]

http://www.stallman.org/archives/2008-j ... stitution)

17 March 2008 (Spitzer and prostitution)

New York Governor Spitzer resigned due to a sex scandal: he paid for prostitution. So what?

It was hypocritical for Spitzer to prosecute people for prostitution while using the services of prostitutes himself. Of these two things, the one he should not have done was the prosecution. There is nothing wrong about being a prostitute, or being the customer of one. The law against this is unjust.

If you don't like prostitution, don't be a prostitute or the customer of one. I never have been, not out of disapproval, but because it is not what I want. I want to make love with my sweetheart, not just have sex. But if you would like sex with someone very attractive, and you don't need love to go with it, I don't see any harm in your paying a skilled professional sex-partner to please you, just as I pay skilled professional chefs and musicians to please me in other ways.

[Patrick]

Apparently it was the wire transfers that raised the red flags and not the prostitution aspect:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story ... 507&page=1

What made it a federal issue was the violation of the Mann Act of 1910.

The guy was a prick and hypocrite. Good riddance.

[Wally Balljacker]

http://www.stallman.org/archives/2008-j ... stitution)

17 March 2008 (Spitzer and prostitution)

New York Governor Spitzer resigned due to a sex scandal: he paid for prostitution. So what?

It was hypocritical for Spitzer to prosecute people for prostitution while using the services of prostitutes himself. Of these two things, the one he should not have done was the prosecution. There is nothing wrong about being a prostitute, or being the customer of one. The law against this is unjust.

If you don't like prostitution, don't be a prostitute or the customer of one. I never have been, not out of disapproval, but because it is not what I want. I want to make love with my sweetheart, not just have sex. But if you would like sex with someone very attractive, and you don't need love to go with it, I don't see any harm in your paying a skilled professional sex-partner to please you, just as I pay skilled professional chefs and musicians to please me in other ways.

I agree with Stallman. I don't think the government has any business dictating what two consenting adults can do with their time and money. If a man wants the services of a prostitute, that's his business.