The Emperor Has No Club

Posted on March 10, 2008 by JE

In the wake of the now-bountifully-bipartisan sex scandals afflicting American politicians, one has to assume there is an inevitable link between intense moralism (as opposed to morality), the drive to seek public office in the US, and the compulsion to purchase sex.

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James Enge is the author of the World-Fantasy-Award-nominated novel Blood of Ambrose (Pyr, April 2009). His latest book is The Wide World's End. His short fiction has appeared in Black Gate, Tales from the Magician's Skull, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and elsewhere.
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8 Responses to The Emperor Has No Club

  1. madwriter says:
    March 11, 2008 at 12:33 am

    Something about power being the ultimate aphrodisiac, no doubt.

    • JE says:
      March 11, 2008 at 2:11 am

      I dunno. I mean, why do they have to pay for it then?

      • fpb says:
        March 11, 2008 at 6:25 am

        I am impressed by the fact that Spitzer paid one thousand dollars for a night with this woman. If you have to throw your career away, you might as well do it properly. If it had a fifty-dollar crack whore, it would have added meanness to the whole sorry saga.

        • peadarog says:
          March 11, 2008 at 2:18 pm

          I hope he was a good Democrat and made sure they had health insurance first. Also, were they unionized?

          • JE says:
            March 11, 2008 at 5:56 pm

            I’m not sure that was the kind of union that was in the front of his mind…

            There was another labor-related question that occurred to me. Apparently the hourly rates ranged from $1000 (or €700) to $3100 (or €2200). Is that prezzo incluso or would a gratuity be expected? Pretty soon we could be talking about real money here.

        • JE says:
          March 11, 2008 at 5:30 pm

          “If it had been a fifty-dollar crack whore, it would have added meanness to the whole sorry saga.”

          Well, the $50 crack whore might have been less likely to be involved in a money-laundering scheme of the Gambino crime family, and also less likely to have travelled across state lines for sexual purposes (a violation of Federal law). And Spitzer would have been able to boast of his fiscal restraint…

      • Anonymous says:
        March 11, 2008 at 1:32 pm

        Support the working class?

        –Jeff Stehman

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