As I clarified in this post on the Jeff Gannon scandal, conservatives excuse sex for money:
You see, for conservatives, commerce is a mitigating - if not sanctifying - factor. That's why they want to privatize everything. Everything goes better with business. Just as evil social programs like Social Security are redeemed by privatization, turning tricks is not so bad if it is also turning a buck. Fat cats who think money can buy everything are fond of saying, "Every man has his price". Well, in Gannon's case it is $200 an hour and $1200 a weekend.
I discovered this conservative ideological principle in the process of reading the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who owns The Washington Times (Ronald Reagan's favorite daily) and who also once bailed out Jerry Falwell's failing Liberty University. Moon says, "The country that represents Satan's harvest is America, the kingdom of extreme individuality, of free sex." Now, of course, Moon may mean overtly expressed sexuality rather than the fact that commerce is being neglected; but in another quote, he calls American women "worse than prostitutes," which begs the question of how they are worse than prostitutes? What do American women do that prostitutes won't? And, naturally, the answer is that they give it away for free. In this light, conservative acceptance of Guckert's hustling makes much more sense. Moralists frown on fun and smile on work; and in Guckert’s case, it is technically work.
Commerce sanctifies sexuality. It's a strip club where the underage dancers have to service their boss to get the job, so it's okay.
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You see, for conservatives, commerce is a mitigating - if not sanctifying - factor. That's why they want to privatize everything. Everything goes better with business. Just as evil social programs like Social Security are redeemed by privatization, turning tricks is not so bad if it is also turning a buck. Fat cats who think money can buy everything are fond of saying, "Every man has his price". Well, in Gannon's case it is $200 an hour and $1200 a weekend.
I discovered this conservative ideological principle in the process of reading the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who owns The Washington Times (Ronald Reagan's favorite daily) and who also once bailed out Jerry Falwell's failing Liberty University. Moon says, "The country that represents Satan's harvest is America, the kingdom of extreme individuality, of free sex." Now, of course, Moon may mean overtly expressed sexuality rather than the fact that commerce is being neglected; but in another quote, he calls American women "worse than prostitutes," which begs the question of how they are worse than prostitutes? What do American women do that prostitutes won't? And, naturally, the answer is that they give it away for free. In this light, conservative acceptance of Guckert's hustling makes much more sense. Moralists frown on fun and smile on work; and in Guckert’s case, it is technically work.
Commerce sanctifies sexuality. It's a strip club where the underage dancers have to service their boss to get the job, so it's okay.