Thread by @peterpattakos

It's beyond dispute that elite athletes routinely pay "masseuses" for sex. Any reasonable assessment of Deshaun Watson's situation has to account for the probability that Tony Buzbee's clients are prostitutes "flipping" on Watson for the promise of an even bigger payday. #Browns

Again, soliciting masseuses for sex might be a crime (in some states, anyway) but it's not sexual assault, and it doesn't justify a fraction of the opprobrium Watson has received re: Buzbee's lawsuits. Bob Kraft suffered zero consequences for being charged with solicitation.

Also, it's extremely naive to believe that star athletes of Watson's stature and wealth wouldn't have access to networks of "masseuses" to provide these services. It's undeniable that these networks are literally everywhere.

It's also v. naive to believe that elite athletes with high earning potential aren't, in some circles, advised to pay for sex instead of attaching emotion to it, the latter, for better or worse, being viewed as a distraction and risk to their financial future/e.g., divorce, etc.

Again, these concerns are well-documented, including in a SI cover story from 2009 on the "strikingly similar" ways pro athletes tend to "blow" their fortunes, citing as one key factor "the divorce rate for pro athletes ... rang[ing] from 60% to 80%."

Prostitutes, or highly paid masseuses who engage in consensual sex with certain clients. Whatever you want to call them, there's surely infinite diversity on this spectrum. Watson's harshest critics displaying extreme puritanism and ignorance re the oldest profession in the world

See below linked piece for more analysis and critique of the unbalanced corporate-media narrative on the allegations against Watson:

https://twitter.com/peterpattakos/status/1534921755973890048?t=Q92Blud5MyJCQKJHgV3QwQ&s=19