More fuel for the Silvio Berlusconi hooker scandal fire: Yesterday, reports the Guardian, "left-leaning news magazine, L'Espresso, posted 'pillow talk' recordings that an escort said she made during a night with the septuagenarian Italian leader." Patrizia D'Addario, the escort in question, says the tapes center around the evening they spent together in Berlusconi's Roman palazzo (coincidentally, the night of Barack Obama's election!). But could the whole thing actually help the Prime Minister?

The Guardian speculates that it might, because Berlusconi is old and has suffered from prostate cancer, but if he can still get it up to fuck an escort, he will be a hero to simple-minded Italian men who think (and vote) with their dicks. Also, D'Addario claims that she never received an envelope full of cash, bolstering Berlusconi's claim that he's never paid for sex. (I'm not sure how stiffing a hooker is a plus, but, you know, Italy.) Finally:

In a third snippet, it is claimed she confides to the same intermediary that Berlusconi asked her whether next time they met she would agree to a menage-a-trois with another of his girlfriends.

"He said that he has a girlfriend and would like to have me lick this girlfriend," D'Addario says, according to the posted recordings.