Three individuals have been arrested on charges of operating a “high-end brothel network” in Massachusetts and Virginia with a clientele that included elected officials, military officers and government contractors with security clearances, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Sex shouldn’t be illegal if it occurs between two consenting adults.
It shouldn’t. But if elected officials are breaking the law instead of fixing it, that is bad.
Consent can be hard to judge when you have wildly disparate financial powers.