Sex, Lie Dectectors and Senators

Let’s talk about sex. That got your attention, huh?

Specifically let’s talk about sex workers. That is the term I use for those men and women most people call prostitutes or whores. I think those are emotionally charged words and I prefer “sex worker” because it is more honest. These are people who engage in sex acts and get paid for it.

I have no problem with this, since it has been going on for centuries and will for centuries more. If the sex worker is healthy both mentally and physically and does his or her best to stay that way, what is the problem? Unless they are spreading disease or working for drugs I think it’s an honorable profession, at least as honorable as politics and perhaps a bit more.

Now politics, that’s a different story. Politicians are allegedly public servants, though no one believes that any more. They are elected on the strength of their character and ideas in a fair election and that is the way it should be. The problem comes when you find out they are more like carnival barkers. They say whatever is necessary to get you into the side-show or in this case election, and from that point forward all bets are off.

Take Senator David Vitter, (R-La). He has campaigned on a platform of “family values” and parades himself as a moral compass for the people of Louisiana. Sounds great! Now that he is elected, the fine folks in Louisiana find out he was on the list of the famous “DC Madame”. In other words he was a client of a sex worker. Though I have no problem with that, I do take issue with his hypocritical posturing as a “family values” candidate, and I suspect quite a few folks in Louisiana feel the same way.

He has continued to deny he never had sex with a “prostitute” showing his disdain for the profession, yet he apparently used their services frequently. Now Larry Flint, of hustler fame, has given a lie detector test to one of the sex workers he allegedly frequented and there is a 99.9% chance she is telling the truth about his patronage.

Like Larry Craig, Vitter speaks from both sides of his mouth and he needs to be called on it. Unfortunately, because Vitter visited a female instead of a male sex worker, the Senate has not seen fit to call for his resignation. I suspect there was a lot of joking and winking about his activities, but little outrage. What a pity.

It’s time for America to get itself a new definition of morality that goes beyond the action between the waist and the knees. The worse sins issue from the lies and hypocrisy of mouth.