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Lady Ace at the Duckie Brown After-Party at Salon in the West Village in 2005, PHOTO CREDIT: Christopher London

 

EVENT CALENDARS BURLESQUE & PERFORMANCE ART SENSUAL & EROTIC EVENTS

 


BDSM & FETISH COMMUNITY GUIDES

 

BDSM & FETISH SCENE: INDEPENDENTS

 

BDSM & FETISH SCENE-VENUES

 

FETISH MODELS 

 

FEMALE MUSCLE

 

 FOOT WORSHIP

SEX TOYS & FETISH WEAR 

CALL GIRL PERSPECTIVE

 

SENSUAL & EROTIC ART

VENUES  

SEX EDUCATION & RESOURCES GUIDES

SENSUAL EMPOWERMENT & ADVISORY

INDEPENDENT COMPANIONS (Traveling: Non-Local)

STRIP CLUBS & SERVICES

 

 

 

 

ADULT SERVICES

Massage: Therapeutic

Bodywork & Tantra

COMPANIONSHIP & ESCORT

Directories

 Services

 Sex-worker Reviews

OUTSIDE NYC

INDEPENDENT COMPANIONS 

 

 

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CURIOUS CASE OF NATALIE DYLAN: The VIRGIN Auction

 

 

NEW YORK SEX HALL OF INFAMY: SEX, POWER, POLITICS & FINANCE

 

ELIOT SPITZER PROSTITUTION SCANDAL (2008)

POLITICAL ASSASSINATION OF ELIOT SPITZER

   

ELIOT SPITZER LEGACY

ECONOMY IN CRISIS 2008

Pre Scandal 

Social & Philanthropy Photos/Events

SPITZER’S REDEMPTION: Wall Street's House of Cards/AIG BAILOUT

ECONOMIC RECOVERY PACKAGE

FINANCIAL TERRORISM

   
BERNIE MADOFF SCAM  WALTER NOEL, FAIRFIELD GREENWICH GROUP

EZRA MERKIN

SPITZER SCANDAL ROLEPLAYERS

 

ROGER STONE

ASHLEY ALEXANDRA DUPRE

ANDREIA SCHWARTZ, Brazilian Madam (2006)

 

 

 

 

 

THE FALL OF NY CONFIDENTIAL (2005)

KRISTIN “Billie” DAVIS--The Manhattan Madam (2008)
ABOUT NY Confidential
 
 
JASON ITZLER
 
NATALIE MCLENNAN: New York's Top Escort
 
 

ATTORNEY ANTHONY OTTAVIANO MURDER (2008)

 
 

SYDNEY BIDDLE BARROWS (1984)

 

NADIA FREY, AKA “MISTRESS HILDA PIERCE” MURDER (1997)

 
Craigslist Sex Scandal
 
 
   

OLD NEW YORK-Historical Background

NATIONAL-WASHINGTON, DC

DC Child Sex Ring Scandal (1989)

DC Madam Death (2008)

JEFF GANNON 

RANDOM DEATHS?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One must enter the world of Mae Brussell, where Society's messengers of truth have a strange way of dying, to comprehend what is even possible.

SENATOR PAUL WELLSTONE

HUNTER S. THOMPSON 

 BARBARA OLSON 

TIM RUSSERT  

 

 

GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE IN AMERICA

 

Tracked in America  | America Under Surveillance  | ACLU | Privacy in America: Electronic Monitoring  | The American Conservative: Surveillance State | ALA | Surveillance in America | America Wakes Up the Surveillance Society  | America wrestles with privacy vs. security   |More Surveillance Equals Less Liberty: Patriot Act reduces privacy, undercuts judicial review  | EFF: USA Patriot |Police State USA?

 

9/11 TRUTH MOVEMENT

9/11 PRESS FOR TRUTH 9/11 Truth vs Mainstream Media
   
   
9/11: CONVENTIONAL WISDOM 9/11 TRUTH MOVEMENT

9/11 Story & Images

Memorial 

 

  

 

   
9/11 Truth Groups & Web Resources 9/11 Web Resources

9/11 Families

 

 

The Military Industrial Complex PNAC

Terror Timeline 

"The process of transformation, even if it bring revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor."

Critique

 

   
Video & Movies

Editorially Noteworthy 

 

   
BOOKS The Federal Reserve System

 

 

 

 

 The Federal Reserve System: Critique

Rothschilds

 

9/11 Truth: David Ray Griffin - "Confronting the Evidence" BILL COOPER Predicts 9/11
 
ZEITGEIST: The Movie THE END OF AMERICA
   
   
 

 

 

9/11: Press for Truth

 

 

 
NEWSFLASH (DEC 2008):     Gearing Up for Martial Law in the U.S.

Army War College, Report: Military may have to quell domestic violence from economic collapse   |  The Peak Oil Crisis: Civil Unrest  |  US Army War College issues report on martial law

 

 

SEX WORKERS RESOURCES

RIGHTS & SUPPORT GROUPS DECRIMINALIZATION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
HUMAN TRAFFICKING EDITORIAL
   
CURIOUS TIMES: Post 9/11 a sensual libertarian movement  with a distinctively feminine voice, emanating from Brooklyn and the Lower East Side, driven by a cadre of women (female social entrepreneurs, erotic event planners and sensual performance artiste's, a "sensual libertarian network" of sorts) has ascended upon, transformed and otherwise become part of the essential fabric of Manhattan nightlife, society and culture. Whether it is the art mimicking our culture or the art itself an outgrowth of the cultural and political climate is not so clear. Perhaps it was a little of both. This "sensual movement" celebrating girl power and girl love embodies the choice rather than exploitation of women. It is also on some level leading our society towards a healthy erosion of double standards by creating a forum for women to celebrate their sexual freedom, pleasure and status as sexual beings.  It is not simply about nudity, sex or hedonistic indulgence, although there is plenty of that. As stated by, Palagia of Onelegupnyc in reference to her erotic themed events, "It would be nice [if the media] would hone in on how these events transform relationships or marriages."  "I'd rather read about how a couple grew from attending one of my parties versus where they had sex and with whom." 

The undercurrent seems pragmatic, reality & choice based rather than a morality play with a clientele that was more Eyes Wide Shut than Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, without the moral dilemmas which perplexed Tom and Nicole in Eyes Wide Shut, although Gregos Loft Parties eventually came to an end when Grego found religion and no longer the fulfillment he sought in this lifestyle.  See also: Let-It-All-Hang OutThe Politics of Sensuality Soft Core in The Big Apple ; New Hedonists

SEX SCANDALS: Consensual Sex Work vs. Victims of Human Trafficking

Fast forward a few years later and we find a focus on Sex Scandals, harassment, raids and arrests on high end escorts and madams. Upon closer examination, in retrospect, one has to wonder whether this was part of an intelligence gathering effort by the intelligence community in the United States. While in some cases it may involve the local police, the directive goes straight up to the federal level at the FBI, IRS. It is important that we not demonize local law enforcement for merely following orders and enforcing the law as it exists.  Police men and women, like teachers and other municipal workers, enforce the law and operate at pleasure and the directive of a higher authority. Police men and women are people like you and me, who if they do not follow order risk their livelihood. Notably, however, Eliot Spitzer's private affairs may not have gained public exposure if he intelligence community was not on a heightened level of alert for suspect activity post 9/11.  

Consider first that high end sex workers, most often are not victims of human trafficking but rather work consensually. Whether they operate independently or through their brokers or agents, most often they cater to and service an elite, upscale and affluent clientele. As a result of the intimacy of their conduct and often strict verification procedures, certain folks usually come into possession of the dirty secrets and personal information of some of the most affluent, successful, powerful and influential people in society. High end sex workers separate and apart from victims of human trafficking, work of their own free will and volition. Sex Traffickers pose much more difficult targets for local, national and international law enforcement. 

Crusades against escorts and madams operating at the upper echelons of American Society have little or nothing to do with preserving the safety and security of women or cracking down on human trafficking, even if they give the appearance of such. It is but an illusion and deception perpetrated on the American public. In short, Sex Scandals and busts of prostitutes of this kind are never really about what they claim to be. By targeting the low hanging fruit so to speak, the Police State gets to go on a fishing expedition, gathering information about the affluent, powerful and influential for use at a later time. Material gathered might be of use at a later time to persuade, cajole and perhaps even blackmail influential people who might otherwise be unwilling to play ball and cooperate with an overall agenda which might be against theirs or society’s interests.  

LEGALIZATION OF PROSTITUTION?--Guide to Utilization of Sex Workers & Avoiding Victims of Human Trafficking

In my opinion, legalization of prostitution, at least in the manner that it has been discussed is not necessarily the answer. Government involvement is unnecessary in consensual transactional romantic encounters, whether they involve companionship or even sex. Government efforts should focus its efforts instead, nationally and internationally, on breaking up and prosecuting human trafficking rings and not high end escort services, madams or independent escorts who are often models, actresses and students who choose this activity as a means to supplement their income. Patrons of sex workers should likewise consider hiring only women who work independently, with reputable escort services or agents, brokers or madams that compensate women fairly allowing them to keep a majority of their earnings minus a brokerage fee for their networking the transaction. Once we recognize and accept that in a free market system that transactional romantic encounters are inevitable, they ought to be decriminalized and the right for parties to contract privately be respected. Consumers should be educated about the proper etiquette in  the utilization of sex workers and the avoidance of patronizing prostitutes enslaved via human trafficking.  One should do all that is possible to hire women who speak the native language, appear independent, secure, clean and do not otherwise appear to be the victims of human trafficking. This should be relatively easy for most reasonable people to determine even in the absence of a guide.

As we look back from the position of December 2008, with the American economy in crisis from the sub prime mortgage meltdown, the financial industry bailout and then the subsequent exposure of Bernie Madoff’s $50 Billion Scam one has to wonder who and what end was served by Governor Eliot Spitzer’s removal from office.

The series of arrests of escorts and madams leading ultimately to the former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's doorstep seem at somewhat curious if not suspect. Was Eliot Spitzer targeted by powerful forces in our society? Discrediting The Sheriff Of Wall Street was one way to disarm their greatest critic but could it have also been an effort to thwart more significant exposure and to control the economic fallout that may have impacted some prominent people and institutions in a profound way? Consider the recent headline on The Huffington Post leading to a story on Bloomberg: FBI AGENT: FINANCIAL CRIMES NOW POSE 'THE GREATEST THREAT'   Turns out that Eliot Spitzer was right all along. Imagine the Eliot Spitzer’s political position today without his private contractual transactions with a high end sex worker. Spitzer was elected by a substantial margin with the support of 69% of New York voters on Election Day in 2006, a truth crusader who was not beholden to anyone but the voters, one who scared the hell out of some of the most deeply corrupt in the financial and business community. In many ways, Spitzer was like a bull in a china shop.  Society can handle political crusaders who use flamboyant and challenging language in a campaign but who once elected lapse into a more cooperative working tone with society’s power brokers. Eliot Spitzer’s strength was in fact his greatest weakness. Eliot Spitzer was screwed largely because power feared him and did not trust that Spitzer would act diplomatically. In removing Spitzer, an element of the status quo was kept in place and perhaps some deeply corrupt people get to hold on to their bounty. Contrast that with the tenure of Bush & Cheney, what has been done to the Constitution, the Justice Department, the Nation’s Treasury, their conduct of the War overseas. While they were allowed to complete their time in office worth hundreds of millions more than when they came in and that Eliot Spitzer, who was right about Wall Street, had to resign because he paid a high end call girl for private contractual sexual encounters, if nothing else is clear, some believe that there  was a second coup d’état in the time period of 2000-2008.  

 

 

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