Reply #14: I guess I have a "New Deal" conflict with that --- tabula resa ---

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in other words, what you're saying is that the revolutionary "all are created equal" --
nor the democractic ideals of "equality for all" have made no imprint on the male mind since
those times --- ???

Men never change . . . ??

Actually, I remember really being shocked back in the 70's when I came to realize that two of my
executive bosses had arranged for a visitor to go to a whore house!!!
To me, they became pimps . . .

What I was trying to get to in this conversation --- other than what you are saying which is, of course, valid and very interesting --- is the competitive/celebrity influence on this paying for sex thing. Whereas many of us might look at ole Elliot and say . . . "yep, that guy needs to pay for sex..." many celebrities have made prostitution use --- "in and out the door" --- something for the average male to reach for????

I can see I have a blind spot in this conversation ---
though I'd be for legalization of prositutiton ---
and never arresting a prositute without all of her Johns ---
I think I have an democratic bias in my heart and brain which makes this a bit of "up is down" in my mind ---


PS: Which reminds me that the "cover" for Henry Kissinger at that time --- 1970's --- was that
girls were interested in him --- which was hard for anyone to believe. I'd have had trouble thinking that even a prostitute would do him for any amount of $$.