There has probably never been greater participation by men doing Zumba then in the town of Kennebunk, Maine. Yes, the summer home of President George Bush. A few years ago, Alexis Wright came to town and opened a fitness studio where she taught Zumba. Police also says she was selling sex and charged her with 109 counts of prostitution. Here is where things get sticky. Alexis filmed everyone of her sessions with the residents of the town who used her services. She also kept very good records. The town is on pins and needles to find out who is on the list. Apparently it is going to be a very good list filled with everyone in the town who would probably normally speak out against prostitution. Doctors, lawyers, police, city council people, and many others are on the list of 150 customers. It took police five months to crack the case. Uh huh. Probably because they needed to go back for repeat visits just to make sure.
KennebunkPORT was GHW Bush's vacation home place---are those towns connected?
ReplyDeleteAnd OF COURSE all the 'best' people in town patronize the PROSTITUTION WHORE. Why, I've seen nuns shoplift booze.
I thought GWB lived in KennebunkPORT, Maine, not Kennebunk, Maine?
ReplyDeleteFrom Google Maps, they seem to be different towns a few miles apart.
We said the same thing--even with the caps...lol. Soulmates.
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one that thinks that Prostitution should be legalized? If a married man is going to cheat it will be with a prostitute or someone else. Just seems like a stupid law, plus legalizing it will make it safer for everyone involved. You can set laws for necessary std testing and wouldn't have to worry about it necessarily happening in shady places.
ReplyDeleteDifferent towns divided by the river, but mostly it's the same...K'port kids go to Middle & High School in K'bunk. I shudder to think who I'm going to recognize on that list.
ReplyDeleteLegalization would also make it more difficult for men to extort the sex workers with threats of turning them in.
ReplyDeleteLOL it's a real life The Client List!
ReplyDeleteAnd Christina, no you're not. I agree with you.
Maybe it's the Libertarian in me, but I think prosecuting prostitution is stupid. WHO CARES if men paid her for sex? Unless she was blackmailing them (and keeping videos and records points to her trying that one day), I don't care.
ReplyDeleteOMG she looks like a girl i know from Church named Julissa
ReplyDelete@Christina You're not alone. I think from the "keeping women safe" aspect, it makes sense. I don't think the moral majority will never let it happen though.
ReplyDeleteITA, Christina. Prostitutes only exist because there's a market for them. Just like drugs.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of things we'd legalize & regulate, if we actually cared about all the people hurt in these underground criminal industries, instead of 'warehousing' addicts as a policy.
Addicts without money, I should say. If you have money in this country, you can get all the prescription drugs you wish, and/or afford a great lawyer if caught.
Legalizing prostitution would also mean that they're paying taxes and contributing to society. Whenever this topic comes up I think of the movie Night Shift, and how The Fonz got them all health insurance and 401(k)s.
ReplyDeleteProstitution will never stop.
ReplyDeleteOh, and btw, the myth of the 'happy hooker' is just that--a myth. I trust that the VAST majority of prostitutes end up there because they're stuck without choice. Whose first choice is sex for money? Is incarcerating that person helping ANYTHING?
ReplyDeleteHarper Valley PTA!
ReplyDeleteAgree with legalization. Imagine how much safer the industry would be for workers and patrons; and Amber is totally right, it would HELP our economy since they'd be contributing legally.
ReplyDeleteThis is also a Lifetime movie waiting to happen. Oh, to live in that town...can you imagine the scandal waiting to erupt? That's the kind of gossip I love.
The more serious charges against her are for tax evasion and theft by deception, as she has been receiving state financial assistance for years stating that her only income was as a Zumba instructor. I think they could care less about the sex-for-pay issue.
ReplyDeleteYou can learn more here:
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article/217765/2/Felony-charges-lodged-in-Kennebunk-prostitution-case
Never trust a whore.
ReplyDeleteI so badly want to take my tweezers and pluck out those grey hairs....
ReplyDeleteThis is going on about half an hour north of where I live. Many folks can't wait for the client list to come out, which a judge just ruled would happen. Fun Fact, she recorded most of her sessions and had been posting the videos on Yuvutu and other sites. Maybe its all just part of the Zumba lifestyle?
ReplyDeleteIs that really what my first comment is going to be? lol
ReplyDeleteLOL @ C. Malone - it was perfect.
ReplyDelete@ hairydawg -- we're not that far apart! :) What saddens me is that the school officials are "bracing for impact" when the list goes public because they know there will be kids who are impacted (with fathers/relatives on the list). Counselors are being told to prepare to offer help to those in crisis.
ReplyDeleteShe posted it? Damn.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree that prostitution should be made legal. But it's that whole taboo thing. Selling your body for money is very taboo. Same reason why marrying your sibling is illegal, right? Incest is a very taboo topic and it gives people the icks, just like selling your body for sex.
ReplyDeleteWorld's oldest profession. Legalize the things!
ReplyDeleteI read that too, Meg. "thanks A LOT Dad!"
ReplyDeleteSmart woman, keeping records like that. This is the type of delicious scandal I like.
ReplyDeleteI agree with many of you saying prostitution should be legalized. It should be like any other job with benefits like health insurance, 401K's, pensions, as well as having wages taxed (regrettably). I'm sure people would still do business under the table, but for the most part, it would keep a lot of working gals safe from unscrupulous pimps and violent Johns. It's not going away, so might as well make it legit.
@Amber - NIGHT SHIFT!!! I love that movie. Hey kid, you like music?
ReplyDeleteChuck: "As we sit here and idly chat, there are women, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that."
ReplyDeleteBill: "Is this a great country, or what?"
This is hilarious that Enty tries to pull W into this but winds up looking like a dumbass. Stick with gossip, Enty. We don't come here for your opinions on politics.
ReplyDeleteLOL @ Robert
ReplyDeleteGreat googley-moogley! My husbands people live there! It's a super conservative area, I can't wait to hear their reactions.
ReplyDeleteDivorce lawyers are in for a big payday!
ReplyDeleteSo my question is, are there going to be 109 men prosecuted for soliciting and engaging in prostitution?
ReplyDelete* crickets *
Gotta love our sexually biased society. Lock away the whore! Oh, these poor men, hustled by her mesmerizing Zumba. Don't worry guys.. No charges will be filed against you..as you were gentleman.
Lets legalize marijuana while we are at it!
ReplyDeleteLets legalize marijuana while we are at it!
ReplyDeleteKatie said...
ReplyDeleteThis is hilarious that Enty tries to pull W into this but winds up looking like a dumbass. Stick with gossip, Enty. We don't come here for your opinions on politics.
and the rest of us don't come here to read your negative bullshit. why come read a blog to only insult the author? read the whole thread, the towns are divided by a river.
who's the dumbass now?
Alicia: Perhaps they will--while putting away the "working girls" doesn't seem to put the brakes on prostitution, going after the johns sure as hell does! Sauce for the gander and all that, you know...
ReplyDeleteThis woman seems to have been running her own show, but I'm thinking in particular of all the young girls & women who are trapped in the business by their pimps; anyone who buys any of those poor girls NEEDS to be outed as the callous users they are. Want to stop sex trafficking? Don't go after the women; go to the source of the trade and bust the males (they're certainly not men) who exploit them, both pimps and johns. I bet we'd see a lot fewer of both, especially the latter, if they knew their ass would end up in a sling as well...
I want to agree with legalization and I would love to see the positive changes it could bring to the lives of workers, but there is a major problem with it. So far, in every system where it was legalized it has resulted in major increases in human trafficking. When it loses the social taboo through legalization, demand increases, and there are not enough willing workers to meet the demand. So, to fill it, more women are trafficked as sex slaves. Truly horrible. Look at Amsterdam - trafficking capital of Europe.
ReplyDeleteThey could legalize it, but there are always going to be street walkers, um, freelancing, I guess you could say. It won't clean up the industry.
ReplyDelete@Nova - great point! The same applies to the strip clubs here in NY. Russian girls brought over, promised things and then forced to strip instead.
ReplyDeleteI hope she posts all the customers' names on the internet. They need to go after the Johns.
ReplyDeleteI thought Zumba was Gwen Stefani's kid.
ReplyDelete@ Katie: you left a message so Enty wins. It's all about him stirring the pot!
I'm also against legalizing prostitution (and not because I'm part of the self-proclaimed "Moral Majority" - I am not). I'm a liberal Democrat, and I know that many people want to see prostitution legalized, but I think it's bad policy.
ReplyDeleteI've read one study that said that 98% of prostitutes are homeless. Those women are not CHOOSING to sell their bodies for money, they're forced into prostitution to feed themselves or their children. The men who visit prostitutes who are forced to sell their bodies for money and take advantage of that situation, in my opinion, are the lowest of the low life forms, truly up there with molesters and murderers. These are woman who put their lives on the line, who are abused by society, who are looked down upon, who risk incredible violence, and on and on - for society to paint prostitution as a "choice" that some women just opt into is total BS.
In my opinion, the way to eradicate the "profession," as so many people call it, is to levy severely harsh penalties on the johns, while providing social services to the prostitutes who are arrested.
And one more thing before I step down - I don't know how it got this moniker for the "oldest profession," but that's just not true. I think it's away that society tries to set it up as something that's inevitable or that we just cannot stop - also BS. Women should not have to sell their bodies to men to survive, period.
LOL Cornbread (8:22 AM), so true. Starring Chyler Leigh or Marisol Nichols as the enterprising Zumba instructor and Stacy Keach as the blackmailed sheriff.
ReplyDeletejax- that's hilarious that you are jumping down someone's throat for being negative. Whomever wrote this entry got their facts wrong and just so happened to mention a controversial President when they did so. Boo on them.
ReplyDeleteUnknown- I'm against legalizing prostitution because I just can't see how it's a positive for women to be known bought or sold for their body parts. Smiling,nodding and saying "it's okay honey, what you are doing is legal" doesn't make it right.
In Sweden, selling sex is legal, but paying for sex is not. That way, it's the johns who are prosecuted rather than women who may have turned to prostitution because of drug addiction and saw no other option. I have to agree with that policy.
ReplyDelete"Paying for sex" was probably a poor choice pf words. I should have said "soliciting prostitutes" or something like that.
ReplyDeleteThe person who thought Enty was bringing up W is too young to remember that Kennebunkport was the vacation town of the FIRST President Bush. There were two.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, the first comment in the thread refers to GHW Bush. Different guy, kids. History is fun!
Am I the only one who read the title and thought 'Zumba' was a nickname for Bristol Palin?
ReplyDeleteI totally dont get men. Why do u want to go where all men have gone before?
ReplyDeleteSemantics are fun as well libby. Probably not as fun as you were having smelling your armpit, but to each his/her own right?
ReplyDeletePresident George Bush is how it was phrased. Do either have a residence in the town Kennebunk?
That would be 5 armpits down (instead of thumbs) Translation: NO
Seriously, the armpit thing is f-ing gross. I don't get that at all. It creeps me out every time I see it.
ReplyDelete@ Libby -- since you bring up history, the locals still refer to the K'port residence as "Walker's Point" (or less formally, the Herbie Walker Estate), as it was originally bought & built by George Sr.'s grandparents. Non-locals (or "people from away who moved here") refer to it as "The Bush Compound."
ReplyDeleteIn any case, there are lots of people who are only aware of K'bunk/K'port because of the Bush connection, so when I read the blog post this morning it didn't phase me in the slightest, and I never got the impression that the writer was implying that either former president was on the client list. Nothing in the local news suggests it so far as I've seen. I took it as an offhand reference. If anyone else here wants to read more into it as a political jab, I can't stop them, but I think it's political oversensitivity speaking.
Armpit thing is still funny to me and I'm on the legalize side. Beauty of the world IMO: Diverse points of view that if one remains open enough, one can learn from the other point. And I direct that towards myself.
ReplyDeleteAnd for the record there ARE women who do want to be part of the sex industry, as they so sweetly refer to it here in SF.
I want anything between consenting adults legalized and taxed regardless of my personal beliefs towards it. I'd rather see money spent on preventing actual victims that need it like children and victims of violent crimes. All this waste of money and resources on consenting adults. Ugh. It all makes me mental.
ReplyDeleteI think the armpit thing is just a little ummm, aggressively distracting. Every time I see it.
ReplyDeleteI think we should de-criminalize prostitution, but keep it illegal to be a John. You can sell it, you just can't buy it. It protects the women and continues to battle the problem.
ReplyDelete@libby Sometimes.....when I get nervous......I stick my fingers under my armpits and smell em like THIS!
ReplyDeleteSuperstar. Best movie ever. ;)
I think MJ and hooking should be legalized as well. I like Sweden's idea. @Unknown had an interesting point too. But I think that despite the small kinks to be worked out (see there? I made a funny! "Kinks"...get it? Oh dammit, I just killed the joke now....)
Anyway, legalizing the two would bring in taxes and help national debt...and you know there will always be plenty of stoners and old dudes who get a case of the restless porker in America.
There's nothing wrong with Enty mentioning the Bush family connection to the two towns.
ReplyDelete1: It refreshes people's minds as to where they've heard the towns' names before.
2: If a US president has a home there, other powerful people may live there and be on this list. That's speculation, but if they're already bracing for a shock, it has to be considered.
3: It's not the fact the Bush family are Republican, it's the fact they were presidents. If this same thing happened in a small town where Carter, Clinton or Obama had summer homes, it would be just as valid to mention them.
It's legal in Australia, and we have always had quite progressive laws in regards to this. It's illegal for men to profit from the earnings of a prostitute, so if a guy tries to pimp, a woman out, he is arrested.
ReplyDeleteA woman can conduct a 'business' from home, declare her earnings, pay tax and have legal protection, and the freedom from prosecution, should she require police or ambulance assistance. This lowers the incidents of violence often associated with the profession, keeping the women safer.
If this woman had a Zumba business and was smart enough to keep records of all her "customers" she obviously had a choice besides prostitution. I wouldn't equate her with someone forced into prostitution because they had no other choice.
ReplyDeleteAstrogirl,
ReplyDeleteWhat if a woman is a woman's pimp? Is it still illegal?
wait a second, I thought if you filmed it, you could call it getting paid to make a porn, and everything was legal.
ReplyDeleteBut maybe I saw that on Family Guy.
Prostitution should not be legalized. Legalization means that the state imposes regulations under which women can be prostituted. In effect, regulation means that under certain conditions it is permissible to exploit and abuse women.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/mhvlegal.htm
http://www.stopprostitution.ca/index.html
http://action.web.ca/home/catw/readingroom.shtml?cat_name=Prostitution+Law+Reform&AA_EX_Session=24c97482fad7430783b3bcac8bf4d54e
http://action.web.ca/home/catw/attach/PRIMER.pdf
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