NY Goveror Eliot Spitzer announcing his temporary employment of a prostitute
This author is - sadly - not shocked. Men that spend days at a time away from their families working are prone to weaknesses of the flesh. His brother Daniel Spitzer, a neurosurgeon, said: "If men never succumbed to the attractions of women, then the human species would have died out a long time ago." What does surprise the author is that Spitzer only hired one prostitute on February 13, and paid her $4,300 (partly as a deposit for future trysts), with the New York times pegging the rate at $1,000 per hour (though the ring had prices ranging from $1,000 to $5,500 an hour). For that amount I might consider having sex with Spitzer.What do you get for $1,000 an hour, let alone $5,500 an hour? For that amount, after we had sex, I would expect her to clean up the apartment or hotel room, then fly back to my home to have sex with my wife, do my tax return, my laundry and take out the garbage. Then she should babysit for awhile. Most medical doctors and lawyers make less than $1,000 an hour, after all, so I'd hope she'd be a registered notary as well, at the least.
An ad for one of the call girls from Spitzer's prostitution ring of choice
Maybe I have it backwards. Maybe she does nothing except what she was hired to do. But in that case, it would only be about five minutes, at least for me. How negotiable is the rate? Would she charge by the minute? The price of $16.67 a minute for a $1,000 an hour prostitute seems much more manageable. Knowing the cost, I bet I could keep it under $40 if I had to, with tip.A $1,000 an hour prostitute is just impossible for me to imagine, like putting into context 10 million years or twenty billion dollars. It is simply outside the scope of my comprehension.
Where have our role models gone? When the mighty fall, they fall, er, hard.