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The D.C. Sex Blogger on How She Went From Slut to Housewife
Monday, November 17, 2008
We set the date and sent out the email invites today. I wanted to elope, but Charles really wants to have a party for our friends. (I would prefer just to go to bed afterwards.) I have an aversion to deposits and head counts, so we plan on flash-mobbing some place that would otherwise be dead on a weeknight. The bartenders will either love us or hate us.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
A friend of mine who edits an online magazine (not The Daily Beast) asks me to start up a sex column again. I agree to write something, but since this editor's taste trends towards the "dating horror story" variety of sex column, I worry that Charles may not approve. For the first time, I actually have to worry about what someone else thinks. I don't want to write about him, nor do I want to bring up any exes, who have always served as gold mines of material for past columns. I have conflicting feelings of lameness and warm fuzzies: I'm only worried because I really do respect him.
Monday, November 24, 2008
An item about our engagement runs quietly in the Washington Post's gossip column. It seems I'm more interesting as a hooker than a housewife, since none of the blogs picked it up.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Spoke too soon. It seems like everyone is allowed to be an asshole on the Internet except me. But to Gawker's credit, someone actually emailed us for comment. (Which I appreciated, although I could do without being held up for criticism.)
An item about Charles ran on Above The Law, at the absolute worst time of year. Every attorney at his firm is hanging on tenterhooks waiting for the bonus announcements. It's his first rough day on the Internet, and one of many for me.
Friday, November 28, 2008
The Friday after Thanksgiving we got our marriage license, and a preview of the environment in which we'll be married on December 8. We're nervous, but we go through with it. I get hot and start fanning myself with our application.
Later that night, I email my editor friend to tell her I'm having writer's block and cannot finish the column I promised. Although Charles tells me that I can write about whatever I want, I realize that I don't want to write about anything at all. Sex writing is a corner I painted myself into, and I would feel much better about doing it if I were somehow qualified, or if I had actually chosen it as a career.
I originally started writing about my sex life because it was fun subject matter. But instead of writing about sex in a realistic, honest way, I began writing about it to provoke and horrify people because it seemed to generate interest. I used to get a thrill every time some stupid thing I wrote got published or linked to. Then people would comment on it, get all worked up about what a ho-bag I was, and my friends and I would crack up over it. It didn't really bother me if my future husband (who was only theoretical at the time) would someday disapprove and freak out. Because if I had thought about those things, I wouldn't have been able to finish my novel!
For the last few years, I've had a difficult time getting past my past. But finding someone who could accept it made it possible for me to accept it, too.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Wedding day.
Luckily, my husband is not easily freaked out. But I agreed to stop making hooker jokes.
Jessica Cutler is author of The Washingtonienne: A Novel, by Hyperion Books. She has also written for The Guardian, The Washington Post, Playgirl, Capitol File, and Wonkette.
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Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Jessica Cutler is author of The Washingtonienne: A Novel, by Hyperion Books. She has also written for the Guardian, the Washington Post, Playgirl, Capitol File, and Wonkette.
Congratulations on your wedding! Was reading your book in a monastery, just the thing to mitigate the room's severity, vow of silence, and cold outside. Love the pink bra on the cover.What a funny book! Have a very happy marriage.
On the bright side, he's getting a wife who's up for anything.
That's gotta be worth something. (Though no more than $300 a pop.)
Yawn...
You do know that wife and slut are not mutually exclusive monikers. Some people actually think slut is a term of endearment, especially if she is up for anything, well almost anything:).
You are my new role model!!! Apparently it is possible to find worthy men than aren't d-bags about what you did prior to your involvement with them! Congrats on your weeding!
What do they say ? You can't turn a whore into a housewife. Good luck buddy.........you're gonna need it.
Guys will always be afraid of a womans past, for good reason... just look at the zinger Sean Avery handed out.
Congratulations. I sincerely hope - especially for your groom - that you undress better than you dress. And I salue the many members of the male race who were documented to have achieved sexual excitement even upon such a vision.
When we get behind closed doors
And she lets her hair down low
And she makes me feel like I'm a Washington Insider
Oh..no one knows what goes on behind closed doors
As long as he does not have a sex column.
You go honey.
I met my wife and we slept together on the first date. I wouldn't have pursued her if she wasn't interested in sex. But she was, and was very much into all sorts of stuff, so I married her. And 10 years later, I am still enjoying the fruits of that decision.
Why marry a virgin when you can find someone that knows what they are doing.
Geez... What is that I'm feeling? Oh yeah. Extreme envy. I gotta get me a slutty wife...
I really don't see the distinction between you and anyone female or male in corporate America, who prostitutes themselves in sycophantic delight for the corner office or a big promotion. In this world where the corporation has become the straw which stirs the drink, what you may have done looks rather beneign.
Btw, Good luck!
Hey Jessica,
Well, Washington DC has been boring since you left, no good scandals etc... Congratulations to both you and your husband, I think somewhere in your book you mentioned that deep down you were just boring enough to want the ring and the husband, so to you I say congratulations on getting your hearts desire. I hope you weren't like MOST married couples who have been dating for a while and were too tired to sleep together on the wedding night...I mean you have a reputation to protect girl!
why do you have to stop being a slut just because you became a housewife? Can't Charles still ask who's your Senator...baby?
How you got married is uninteresting. The details you lay out are pedastrian. The story is in the why? What made you decide to stop slutting around? What made this guy the one? Any regrets?
What a tawdry little slice of life story; what makes your wedding more interesting than anyone else's? All wedding deserve to be witnessed by at least a few friends or relatives. What is interesting is that you appear to be the same escort that i paied $400 to accompany me to a Black Rose / Crucible party and you got scared and ran out after you saw DC's defense and intelligence community doing public bondage and sex.
The multi-culti gene pool is the hippest thing about our new bride - otherwise, she's got nothing on Xaviera Hollander. Happy?
And who, exactly, cares?
Besides Cutler's D.C. pals, I mean.
Daily Beast really needs to choose writers who actually have something to say, instead of gazing at their (annoyingly public) navels
You left out so many details of interest to your admirers. Where are you newlyweds living? Are you sending out invitations to teas at your home and identifying yourself as Mrs. Charles Rubio?
Are you planning a charity ball?
Are you considering a Senate run?
Congratulations!
Congratulations. As someone who kinda tends to meet men the same way, you've given me hope :P. I'm happy for you, and your hubby seems awesome.
In the words of Too Short from 'The world Is Filled' with Biggie:
"You can't turn a hoe into a housewife fool!"
This is truly an Era of Shame Management.
best of luck to both of them.
She agreed to quit whoring, but he continues as a lawyer.
Where is the reciprocity?
Thank you.
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