I’ve Seen My Share of Spitzers: The View From an Escort Service
And there, in the closing paragraphs of this “everybody does it” article, stands the reason for making prostitution illegal:
“I did not inquire into the fate of the girls who sort of faded away. I did not want to hear about their loneliness and poverty.”
Prostitution is dehumanizing.
I have a different interpetation of Spitzer’s wife. She has three daughters to protect and she will do anything, suffer anything, in order to protect them. Resignation isn’t just loss of position, it’s loss of income and other benefits with no replacement in sight. Even with her own employment, it still poses a considerable drop in present standards of living. She’s standing at the edge of an abyss and instinctively trying to preserve what she has. Eventually she’ll figure out what she needs to do that’s best for her family.
Yeah, she’s been dehumanized, too.
