Fair market?
Lemme ask the ladies a question. If a man took you out to a nice dinner, a show, drinks, dancing, the whole works where you have the time of your life, but then suggested you pick up the tab or suggested you go dutch, what’s the likelyhood (on a scale of 1 to 100) that you’d sleep with him? Shut up, because the answer is about no chance in hell. Will you sleep with a man that buys you things? Maybe, maybe not. But you sure as hell won’t sleep with a man that won’t. Why? Because sex has value. Women have it, men want it, and we’re willing to trade time and expense to get it. Some women “charge” more, some less. And this doesn’t even take in to account the hundreds of women selling out for reality tv fame.
But at the end of the day, it’s just the socially kosher way of prostitution. Sure, you’re not standing on the corner giving a half and half for $70 (on special this week), but given the price of booze in a bar, it’s about as expensive and takes longer to pick a girl up the “legit” way. Although some would condemn this part of society, the fact of the matter is that bar hopping and hooking up is more or less mainstream. So why can’t I just call in a pro?
And since we don’t want to touch the fair market and since we don’t want to be socialist/communists, explain to me why a woman is on trial for being willing to trade (on the open market) sex for World Series tickets.
Walter Perez
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. – March 24, 2010 — A jury of seven women and five men has been chosen in suburban Philadelphia to hear the case of a woman accused of offering an undercover police officer sexual favors in return for World Series tickets.
Susan Finkelstein appeared anything but concerned as she arrived arm-in-arm with her husband at the Bucks County Courthouse where her prostitution trial got under way.
The 44-year-old Philadelphian was arrested in October after posting an ad on Craigslist describing herself as a “buxon blonde in desperate need of 2 World Series tickets. Price negotiable. I’m the creative type.”
Assistant DA Steven Jones questioned the undercover officer who was sent to meet Finkelsteikn at a bar in Bensalem.
Jones also produced three topless photos of Finkelstein she allegedly e-mailed after investigators answered her ad.
The officer added that Finkelstein claimed to have an open marriage, was OK with group sex for more tickets, and then discretely flashed him while they were sitting at the bar.
But the defense paints a very different picture.
Finkelstein’s attorney, William Brennan, told the jury of 7 women and 5 men that his client is guilty of nothing, but having bad taste; that she’s already suffered enough for her lack of inhibition.
“She lost her job as a result of this case and she wanted World Series tickets for herself and her husband and went to novel steps to try to obtain them,” Brennan said.
This trial is expected to wrap up Thursday.
Neither Mrs. Finkelstein or her husband would speak to Action News on camera, but they did say when the verdict is handed down, they will have a lot to say.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
