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Was Marie Douglas-David Any Different from a Prostitute?

Why is being a trophy wife legal, but being a prostitute not legal?  Does anyone really believe that this woman married that man for love?  While married, he gave her money.  She gave him sex and attention.  It's an exchange that should be legal.  Yet for millions of women who work in the oldest profession, it's not.Now Ms. Douglas-David wants $53,000 a week in alimony.  Before the divorce, her husband spent $200,000 - again, a week - on her.I ask, again: How is Ms. Douglas-David any different from a prostitute?  Oh, that's right.  Women who look like Douglas-David fall in love with 66-year-old men.  Funny, though.... You never see women who look like her with poor older men.  I wonder why that is?Trophy wives are no different from live-in hookers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on December 22, 2008 (boomark / email).