Is Exchanging Sex for World Series Tickets Really Prostitution?
Susan Finkelstein is apparently a die-hard Phillies fan. Whether she is a fair-weather fan because of their great success at the moment, we’ll never know. What we allegedly know is that Susan put an ad up on Facebook asking for someone to take her to the World Series in exchange for sex, describing herself as “gorgeous, blonde and buxom”. Poor Susan- it doesn’t look like Susan will be going to the game afterall.
The police actually sought her out and arrested her for prostitution. WTF? Is Susan Finkelstein really a threat to the community at large? Granted, since I am in the Pacific Northwest, it’s more than likely not my community that would have been threatened, but believe me, if I can take the “horrors” of the bikini barista stands around, I could definitely deal with the fact that someone wanted to go to the World Series a little more than the rest of us.
This is not a case where a teenager is prostituting herself for a Gucci bag (which reportedly happens in Japan and sometimes even here in the US); rather, this is a situation in which a grown woman has decided to value her sports experiences as equal to experiences with her body. She is not a threat and not only has been arrested, she has been splashed all over the news and media.
Sites like this one are asking what other sports fans would do for their favorite sporting event and mention past cases of other women and men offering sexual favors in return for presents. Is this really prostitution? And if so, how is this really different from sites like Sugardaddy.com where mostly younger women try to hook themselves up with older, richer men?
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