Did I mention that I’m in LA?

This morning I did the Boomer and Carton show on WFAN. Although I don’t really follow sports, actually sex is a sport so I guess I follow one sport, I was really stoked to be able to hang with the boys for but a moment. I mean even I, a fan of only the commercials during the Superbowl, was stoked to talked to Boomer, a legend in the field of football, although since I don’t know the sport I don’t know why he’s a legend (and yes, I know, I can google it and find out). We were talking about Spitzer and McGreevey and some other political figure who had an emotional and physical affair.

It just came out that McGreevey had a threesome, while married, with another man and his wife. The only thing I can really say is go McGreevey! I think his wife is denying it, which I sort of understand, I mean it is her private life and she may just want to keep it private. This is the big news out of that camp. Then, of course, there’s Spitzer, who as the world knows by now, hooked up with a sex worker, and spent a lot of money doing so. Lastly, there’s this other political figure (I know it’s a particular person, but it really could be any politician in this day and age) who has gone even further, falling in love, or deep like, or whatever, with another woman, a woman that he didn’t pay to have sex with him.

Boomer (I think it was him, so many voices, and I was only one lone voice on the phone) put the three sexual “offenses” in order of seriousness. He placed the threesome at the bottom of the rank, as in most unserious (I know not a real word), then the Spitzer affair and then this other politician at the top. I agree. I think emotional investments in sex are the most dangerous. Far more dangerous than the other two, as long as safer sex measures were taken in cases one and two.

And then he asked me my opinion on prostitution. I’ve been asked this a lot since this whole Spitzer scandal, and I have this to say. First off, I’m not a sex worker, never have been, probably never will be, but regardless I do have friends who are, or have been, and I still have my own opinion on the subject. And here it is. I think sex work should be legalized. Not just because it’s the oldest profession but because it’s also a very profitable industry and because the safety and legitimacy of the work that’s being done needs to be acknowledged. Sex work is like therapy, and the men and women performing what is today still, a dangerous profession, deserve not only our respect and recognition, but they also deserve health insurance and other benefits that other therapists or service workers, get.

Sex work isn’t going away, not as long as men have pricks and need places to stick them, so we might as well find a way to make it work for everyone. It’s way better to pay someone for sex, either because you’re in a relationship and you can’t just tell your partner you need more out of him or her in bed, or because you just want sex and no other sort of commitment, than it is to emotionally cheat or lie. I still think you have to talk to your partner first and foremost, and not cheat, but if you can’t do that, a sex worker is a smarter option than your partner’s best friend. A sex worker doesn’t want to be your partner. You are paying them for a service, and that is what they provide.

And that is not a bad thing. Not at all