I’m not happy about his behavior, particularly since Spitzer has never publicly discussed decriminalizing prostitution. On the other hand – it’s not corrupt, and has nothing to do with influence-peddling – it only matters if enough people care about it.

And – whatever people say – the facts speak for themselves – lots of people, overwhelmingly men, every day spend money on commercial sex in almost every country one can name. (I don’t actuallly know of a country which doesn’t have some form of commercial sex – including Islamic countries).

On the other hand, we need to get this over with.