I am so sick of hearing about Gov. Spitzer’s Kristen. Her newfound celebrity is the embodiment of the way American culture has embraced hooker culture into the mainstream. The Ho-ification of America. There are so many examples of this: Stripper classes at your local gym, Hef’s show The Girls Next Door, and the current trend of pseudo-celebrities “accidentally” losing their sex tapes at strategic points in their career.
Considering that we have never seen her breasts or vagina, Kristin seems classier than most celebs.

Is she really so different from other party girls in nyc? In college, I actually had friends who were willing to sell their ivy league eggs to earn a couple bucks. Many of these girls would have jumped at the chance to have sex with rich political figures for money.

Basically, Kristin is less of a slut than so many people that aren’t actually WHORES. And that says something about us.

america is a bonafide mess....the only thing i'm interested in regarding this story is how he got caught...and how they decided to put him under surveillance.

What is America coming too? A black candidate is being crucified because of words uttered not by him, but his minister ....and a white woman that commits a crime is offered a plyboy centerfold, a book deal and immunity. The man she committed the crime with might get off "scott free" Talk about a double standard for whites and blacks. Somthing is really rotten in Denmark.

Way to go America...it only took a week for the idiot-class in this country to make her even richer by downloading her music. Wow...yeah, nobody knew this was gonna happen, huh? This country just gets worse and worse.

OK Spitzer sneaked around and slept with a hooker. He resigned as governor. He's toast politically. That's the end of THAT story. Now I would like to know the details behind the investigation. On NPR I heard that the explanation at the DOJ was that there is software that monitors banking transactions and he shifted money in his accounts that raised suspicions from the software. There were no humans involved, right? But why is Spitzer the only one who has been caught in this way? And why coincidentally someone who is loathed by everyone on Wall St? And why now? Even Bush couldn't help but to act dumb and remark upon how strange the cosmos is that this story should be breaking now. When we look at this in the context of how former governor of Alabama Seligman is in the slammer on the trumped up charges, the way Alberto Gonzales used the DOJ as a Republican Gestapo, and that we still have an Attorney General who refuses to appoint special prosecutors to investigate felonies and it looks like there is a disturbing pattern here. I would like to find out about the guy who was peeking through the key hole...who sent him and why. There is something about this investigation that just doesn't pass the smell test.

The American dream.... parlay a bedroom scandal into national notoriety and career offers.

Could someone supply the URL to Spitzer's article in the New York Times
the day before this story broke?
I'm wondering whether the financiers who hate Spitzer held this scandal
to time it to take the heat off THEIR scandal.

OMG ????

HE PAID WHAT FOR YOU ????

WAY, WAY OVERPRICED !!!

Once again the American media will immerse itself in the tintillating details like the length of Spitzer's pritzer and whether he likes it more doggie style than the missionary position. Countless hours hosted by idiotic talking heads will be wasted on this while good people die unnoticed in Americas endless war, millions go without insurance and our economic well being gets flushed down the tube by a mindless moron in Washington D.C. Truely America is paying the price for it's public stupidity and recklessness.

It's hard to imagine that someone who turns in a Democrat over private sex behavior could benefit from it in any way.

Offered immunity in exchange for what?

Legalize It! Then stop wasting bandwidth with gratuitous pictures and soft core porn that could be spent educating readers about issues that really matter. We've all seen boobies before....yawn.

Before Americans make this uneducated, unintelligent and amoral young woman into the next cultural icon (vis-à-vis Ms. Paris Hilton pornographic tape, or Ms. Pam Anderson pornographic tape) to make a fortune for not possessing the intelligence to realize that she was placing her life at risk, risking the lives of the partners and families of her clients, or that there was an inherent misogyny underlying the entire rap, street, VIP Escort culture that she was enamored with – but as she has so happily stated to the press she loves herself and does not think she has done anything wrong. And so, before this young woman adds yet another footnote to the growing list of why American culture is becoming a global laughingstock, there are some issues that need factual clarification:

First, over the past few days I have heard numerous “experts” repeatedly state the idea that prostitution is a victimless crime, that is wholly incorrect. From, The Lancet (Medical Journal) ; 359:1417-1422: “…prostitution is a significant global problem that has yet to receive appropriate medical and public health attention. Worldwide, an estimated 1 million children are forced into prostitution every year and the total number of prostituted children could be as high as 10 million. Inadequate data exist on the health problems faced by prostituted children, who are at high risk of infectious disease, pregnancy, mental illness, substance abuse, and violence. Child prostitution, like other forms of child sexual abuse, is not only a cause of death and high morbidity in millions of children, but also a gross violation of their rights and dignity.” There is a clear nexus between prostitution and violence against women and children.

Furthermore, hopefully in the matter involving Former Governor Spitzer and the young woman in question, both parties and any of their other partners took the necessary steps to utilize safe sex practices, but undoubtedly even those would not afford an absolute guarantee of protection for Mrs. Spitzer, or the partners of the other clients. To that end, those individuals (Mrs. Spitzer et al.) are clearly victims of both Former Governor Spitzer and the young woman and the management of VIP Escorts. And, I would hope that Mrs. Spitzer (a Harvard Law graduate) and the other effected families bring civil actions against this prostitute specifically and immediately to make certain that she does not benefit financially or in any other manner so that the message is clear that this is not a morality issue, this is a medical and criminal issue. The criminal issue is NOT prostitution, in that a transaction crossed state lines, the criminal issues is endangering the lives of others by reckless disregard – and the weapon is bodily fluids - the reckless disregard being a continuation of sexual activity with multiple partners with full knowledge that their spouses had no knowledge and no protection. There is a clear and convincing correlation between the incidents of HIV and STD infection, violence against women and children, and the prostitution and pornographic industry. This is by no means an advocacy for the ridiculous political agenda for stopping the teaching of safe sex practices in school, in fact, quite the contrary, we need to increase education, but we also need to increase penalties for men like Spitzer and women like this individual and especially the owners and operators of VIP Escorts.

It is also clear from the actions of the attorney that was recently hired by this young woman will be trying to “brand” her image and name – the attorney has been trying to make the case that she is not a “public figure” and that the press used her image and name without her consent. This prostitute has voluntarily made statements to the world wide internet, to the press, and told the world that she loves herself and does not think that she has done anything wrong – well I am certain that the families of the men she has slept with and those mentioned in the Lancet article above would beg to differ.
Unfortunately, the prosecution in America is as driven by publicity as any other industry and as such has offered this prostitute full immunity from any charges for her testimony – as such the only redress that the families as victims can obtain is civil judgement and they should move to do so immediately before she is allowed to start moving and establishing assets outside of the jurisdiction.

In the end, only individual Americans can decide what will happen in this story. If you purchase a product, book, or watch a television show endorsed by this young woman, then you are indeed part of the nexus that provides this industry the resources and reasoning to survive.

Christ, Spitzer got done up because he attempted to stop the prime loan industry way back when Bush decided to allow this kind of loan sharking to have federal protection! I imagine law enforcement just caught him with pants down inadvertently ~ NOT BELIEVABLE!
As for the girl, may she prosper!

Um, five thousand dollars? FIVE thousand dollars? Let me make sure I heard right, five THOUSAND dollars. Five thousand DOLLARS....five...