When Sex Is a Business, You Can't Forget About Demand
Our image of the jet-set call girl is an illusion. The undeniable truth is they aren't the empowered women characterized in movies, music and the American psyche.
Our image of the jet-set call girl is an illusion. The undeniable truth is they aren't the empowered women characterized in movies, music and the American psyche.
Nick Antosca | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
As far as traffic goes, the lower half of Manhattan is sick and it's going to get sicker. Have you been to Times Square on a hot August day in this decade? It feels like being inside a grizzly bear's mouth.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.20.2008 | Media
We wrote last week of the Eliot Spitzer scandal side media trend of examining the lives of actual prostitutes and the phenomenon of prostitution in ge...
Danielle Crittenden | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
NetPets created the fractional mistress industry in 1996, when President Clinton's scandals underscored the need for secure, private and discreet sexual services for politicians.
AP | SOLVEJ SCHOU | Posted 03.18.2008 | Entertainment
**Now with video** Update: Ashley Dupre Nude pictures hit the web Previously; LOS ANGELES — Stop that $1 million check: It turns out the call ...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.18.2008 | Media
Yelena Shuster | Posted 03.17.2008 | Living
If there's anything Ashley Alexandra Dupré taught me, it's that I should be really careful about my MySpace photos -- turns out the Post pays a lot more for unpublished pics.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.17.2008 | Media
Howard Kurtz had fun this weekend with his fellow newsies on "Reliable Sources" over the ubiquitous Eliot Spitzer sex scandal (and we already noted ho...
Times-Picayune | Bruce Alpert and Bill Walsh | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has been mostly mum on the prostitution scandal that forced Democratic New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to announce his resignati...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media
Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the high-priced prostitute at the center of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's, is also an aspiring singer who appeared in ...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
Update: Ashley Dupre Nude pictures hit the web Previously: Saturday: Ashley Dupre/Spitzer's "Kristen' has reportedly been given immunity in exchange f...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media
When do you go from an aspiring singer to a successful one? Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the high-priced call girl at the center of the scandal that fe...
Larry Miller | Posted 03.14.2008 | Entertainment
Spitzer is still in such deep denial of what he's done, he actually thinks showing his shaken wife might salvage his career.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 03.14.2008 | Living
Oh, these poor neglected husbands whose rebellious wives have pushed them into being porn and sex addicts!
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media
I've done pretty well with my media predictions on L'Affaire Eliot Spitzer, but I completely missed one huge and very newsworthy area: The true-life s...
Efe Cakarel and Daniel Debow | Posted 03.14.2008 | Business
Amie Street improves the online music market by providing prices that convey information about quality. Sort of like the Emperor's Club.
Paul Hipp | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media
Will Ashley Dupré become a star? Well, really, what other option does she have -- this is on her permanent record, and she'll never, ever escape it. Her only option is to use it, and so far she's in a pretty good position to do so.
David Sax | Posted 03.14.2008 | Business
Say what you will about Clinton, but all his affair with Lewisnky cost the country was a cigar and a dry cleaning bill. Spitzer's folly is so atrocious because he spent like a crooked hedge fund manager on a white truffle binge.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media
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Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
The GOP has such a notorious losing streak when it comes to this stuff that when a Democrat finally falls it's kinda like when Somalia beats Austria in the luge.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media
Wow — it's amazing what 24 hours of solid digging will do, especially when you're the media and your target is a not-camera-shy aspiring singer ...
New York Times | DANNY HAKIM and DON VAN NATTA Jr. | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Gov. Eliot Spitzer used campaign funds in connection with his meetings with prostitutes, including payme...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media
Update: Ashley Dupre Nude pictures hit the web Update: Larry Flynt has offered $1 M should she pose for Hustler ** According to reports, Eliot Spitze...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media
Suddenly the steady stream of familiar faces opining on cable have been supplanted by the less-common faces of local reporters called in to provide insight from their years on the beat. So is this the biggest story to come out of Albany in, like, ever?
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Sonia Ossorio | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics