Wednesday, June 29, 2022

In Pursuit of that Frisson of Pleasure


He had the trust and friendship of captains of 

industry, royalty, influential political elites and 

social aristocrats who flocked to his soirees

his sumptuous vacation properties, his Paris

and New York hideaways for he was greatly

valued for his specialty of accessing and

proffering the services of underage girls for 

entertainment in discreet assignations until 

finally his victims had the unmitigated gall 

to bring to public notice illegal activities of a 

child molester. Illegal only because his penchants 

became public. And so his misfortune disowned 

by all  his friends and acquaintances, he sat in prison

alone the victim of sudden desertion, soon to take 

his own life. Now his former mistress herself an

entitled aristocrat with her own roster of highly

distinguished alliances and the symbol of all

that society guards its young against, found

guilty of aiding and abetting his criminal acts

is sentenced to 20 years in prison. Not a word

much less an accounting from presidents and

princes who availed themselves of such services

concealed yet acknowledged while the penalty

for their procurement is assigned to an eagerly

helpful woman and they are shielded from

further scrutiny for after all they are men and as

such these foibles are forgivable, women's not.

 

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