Comments on: Secret Service Agents Sacrifice Reputation For Prostitutes: Their Romanticism Goes Unheralded

By: Melissa Gira Grant | The real scandal is when you don’t pay her

Melissa Gira Grant | The real scandal is when you don’t pay her — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:47:31 +0000

[…] Shane, over at (my favorite sex work blog) Tits and Sass already covered the possible corners this story will get dragged into – the legal status of prostitution in Colombia, the martial status of the agents involved, the […]

By: jingly jang

jingly jang — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:31:35 +0000

“That counts as a pretty fucking successful trick for most of us.” I died laughing!!! Well written!

By: Lolo de Sucre

Lolo de Sucre — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:12:57 +0000

I vote for scorching his balls with a cattle brand: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/world/americas/colombian-escort-speaks-about-secret-service-scandal.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

The cops even tried to step in and help her out, according to this story. I wish that happened in the US.

By: Cheo D

Cheo D — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:59:05 +0000

@Mike: The story as I got it is that local LE became involved after the argument on whether he was stiffing (ha) her escalated to the point that Hotel Security decided they needed to bring in someone (a) with authority (b) who was not a potential party to any claim, to get things straight so everyone walked away peacefully. Then with actual LE involved it became sort of inevitable that the American would have to come clean.

As Charlotte states, the true trouble indicator here is not the sex work per se, but the bad judgment call on the part of the agent(s), by potentially compromising their mission security. That includes the very act of getting into an argument over who’s getting ripped off – part of the advance team’s job IS to NOT call undue attention to themselves. They could have waited until the mission was completed and the Big Boss headed back home safely, and THEN had a “well done, boys, great job” party blowout, and nobody would have cared.

(…and OK, I can imagine a Conspiracy Theorist scenario in which the “scandal” is itself fabricated in order to call attention away from some other more nefarious deal, but let’s stay in the world of likelihoods, shall we?)

By: The real scandal is when you don’t pay her | postwhoreamerica

The real scandal is when you don’t pay her | postwhoreamerica — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:10:28 +0000

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:56:02 +0000

Is it true that the sex worker went to the cops because the agent wouldn’t pay?

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Wordpress Link Digest 04/17/2012 « Meandering Vaguely Around Timnah — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:49:41 +0000

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By: Lady

Lady — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:10:34 +0000

I can’t help thinking this is just to take the media’s eyes off this story:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/14/health/military-sexual-assaults-personality-disorder/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

By: Sex Mahoney

Sex Mahoney — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:12:11 +0000

According to most of the PSA’s that play on the AFN networks, consensual sex of any kind is no small victory for our military [http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/dec/09/rape-us-military]. Of course, a scandal of this kind is clearly the most shameful thing to happen to the American military ever [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17411009].