"During her trial, P**** posted online the phone numbers of many of her clients, a list that included Sen.******, who later apologized for a “very serious sin.” In an interview on Monday, S**** said he’d obtained names associated with those numbers through a subpoena of phone records at the time, but they had been quashed by a court order. S**** said he’d sat on the documents for years, but the upcoming election had prompted him to try to air the names."

I think the bit about "I only paid for massages" is really driving my post but the entire situation is what it's about.

Society has no legal problem with marriage for money and let be honest here that's about having sex as much as anything else. We don't have legal issues with sex for viewing -- the porn industry. We don't have legal issues with the who bar-scene hook up or the idea of friends with benefits. All of that is legal.

What is really different with escorts?  Especially given that making it legal would go a long way to solving a lot of the abuses with trafficking and the sex trade that currently exist. I really don't get it. Seems like social hyporcracey and social irrationality to me.  

Yea, I know; preaching to the choir here. But really, why does this seem to persist for so long? For instance, to take a very current event: the bust in Washington State in January. The girls and I think most of the Johns were not of interest to the police/sheriff. Their interest was in the trafficking aspect and the people running the rooms. The girls apparently were given political asylum and the johns will merely be shamed if anyone asks for the list of driver licenses. How is that really any different than saying the escort service is legal -- though perhaps of low moral character -- and the exploitation is what's legally wrong.