"I cannot say for certain until I speak to her, but it may have affected her. I guess she came to the realisation that prostitutes are just people, it's not the stereotype that people often seem to think."
-Paul Magnanti, father of Brooke Magnanti, on his patronage of over 150 prostitutes. Brooke Magnanti recently outed herself as the author of Belle de Jour, the popular prostitute blog.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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" . . .describing him as “a bit of a do-gooder... who helps women".
Even when the bar is set this low for altruism, I still somehow find a way to fail.
The two things I am taking away from this whole thing: 1) She had to do it because she's a Jew(?) 2) People suspected the blog was actually written by Toby Young.
150 prostitutes in 10 years...just over once a month. He's practically abstinent.
I have a sneaking suspicion that he patronized the individual prostitutes more than once each.
So... is she a prostitute or a research scientist? I mean obviously she can be both, but I'm curious to know which informed the other, if at all?
Lacking children, all the money I would save for college and weddings I will spend on prostitutes when I'm too old to get it for free. Because I believe in the next generation. And I support the youth.