this is stolen from the recent savage love column.love it.
more on todays favorite politican. :)
A. I was tapping out a response for you, BIF, when my inbox started filling up with e-mails about Bob Allen, a state representative in Florida who offered— allegedly, allegedly—an undercover cop $20 for, uh, a little oral-sex performance. In addition to being a cheap bastard, Allen is a married man and a gay-bashing, conservative Republican asswipe. Allen's arrest came so soon after Republican U.S. Senator David Vitter's admission of hiring prostitutes that, sheesh, it felt like Christmas in July. If I may: Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo was confused about whether Allen wanted the cop to blow him or if Allen wanted to blow the cop; Marshall was also confused about whether Allen was offering payment or requesting payment. One look at Allen clears up the payment question: This is not a man who gets paid for sex. As for the who-blows-whom issue, like many straight men, Marshall doesn't see blowjobs as a pleasurable activity for the blower. That's what a lifetime of getting head from straight women can do to a guy. Josh? When a male escort is engaged for oral sex, it is almost always the escort who is "serviced," because many gay men—and many, many straight-identified men—actually enjoy giving head