What’s theessence?"
These are fine questions well worth asking.
Because prostitution, in all its forms, is a difficult, complex issue.
One that is hard to get people to agree on.
It literally still has numbers above each bedroom door, in a sort of sex work historic preservation effort.
The point being, it’s always existed, and probably always will.
On Monday, the highest court in Massachusetts heard arguments from both sides in the case.
Over a dozen of the alleged clients are asking to remain anonymous.
“Pick a profession, they’re probably represented in this case.”
Only the worst sorts of political hacks or other hangers-on care about our government officials.
And the other professions listed here are at most on the C-plus-list.
With that business out of the way, this is an interesting legal case.
Especially if you’re innocent.
As the lawyers so often say, you’re free to’t unring a bell.
But what that argument ignores is that it’s no bargain for anyone else who gets arrested.
Most of us probably know someone who’s been charged with a crime.
And when they did, their name was part of the public record.
A fat lot of good beating the case does in the long run.
Not when the whole world already saw them get charged and thinks they’re guilty.
And that goes especially for guys charged with sex-related crimes like soliciting a prostitute.
How many times have city cops conducted one of those “John Sweep” operations?
Hell, isn’t that the whole premise ofTo Catch a Predator?
So what difference does it make how the Johns earn their living?
Where exactly do we draw the line between jobs that are too important and the ones that aren’t?
Is this just a white collar/blue collar thing?
A sort of implied privilege?
A modern caste system where the aristocracy gives themselves rights they don’t give to the normies?
I’m coming down on the side of releasing the identities of these guys.
Not because I’m all worked up about the crime of paying attractive Asians for soulless, commitment-free sex.
But in the end, I’m all about two things: Fairness, and my own self interest.
I’m no elected official, tech mogul or scientist.
But I am a Masshole blogger.
But it does give me the opportunity to entertain the public.
And this list would most definitely do that.
So let’s have at them, thanks.
