OK. I can’t stand it any more. I have to talk about massages in the $250 an hour range. In D.C.

First off, when I get a massage in Marin County, one of the most expensive places to live in the U.S., I pay from $55 – $90 an hour. So THAT’S interesting!

Second off, Deborah Palfrey ran her Pamela Martin and Associates in D.C. from Vallejo, California for pete’s sake! How did she do that? I mean I love the internet and think it is changing our lives but, how did she get her piece of the action, her sawbucks? How did she check up on the wardrobes? Virtual pimping is really quite a novel concept, which I expect to see written up in PC World immediately.

Third off, if “massage” is being used in the first case above as a euphemism for human activities that to some human beings are unspeakable then I think it’s still a bit costly, being of the school if you can’t get it free it ain’t worth having, but basically it’s OK with me.

Fourth, it has always struck me as odd that the two biggest motivators of human behavior –sex and money– are thought by most to need a firewall between them.

Fifth, so long as its consensual, really consensual, naked Rolfing shouldn’t get anyone’s nose out of joint, unless it’s the fidelitor and fidelitee.

Sixth, what is below the surface of Tobia’s remark that he has lately turned to a service with Central American ladies? (See consensual, above, or Digby, here.)

Sixth, if you make a fine living thundering about sex as the unspeakable act, vituperating those who think otherwise, and then get caught delightedly doing the very unspeakable, then you are fair game: Dick Morris, Randall “Abstinence” Tobias, Harlan “Shock and Awe” Ullman… more to come.

Frankly, I can’t wait to see the ABC special about Ms. Palfrey’s phone list. I just hope in our happiness at the good fortune of seeing hypocrites fall we don’t revive the Puritan within us all….