Big Mouth is going to go out on a limb and say something that nobody wants to hear right now, something that I'm sure even Big Queer readers (and contributors) will find extremely unpopular: I don't think visiting prostitutes and having bareback anal sex makes Eliot Spitzer unable to govern the state of New York.

I get the part where I'm supposed to be all upset that he broke a law -- and I'm totally upset about that, and I'm totally aware of how it is particularly hypocritical that Mr. Clean/Eliot Ness broke one. I GET IT. But as I have written on this blog over and over and over again, we Americans allow sex panic to prevent us from making intelligent decisions about the laws we pass, media representation, people in office, and HIV/AIDS.

Here are some statements I can make with complete and total confidence:

• Many political leaders, good and bad, in the history of the world have had sex with prostitutes.
• Many political leaders, good and bad, in the history of the world have had unsafe sex.
• Many political leaders, good and bad, in the history of the world have had unsafe sex with prostitutes.

But you know what else? What they did behind closed doors did very little (possibly nothing) to harm their constituents.

We've gotten a little serious lately on Big Queer (what do you expect with mid-term elections a mere four months away?), but that doesn't mean we haven't had any time for stupid.

As I've mentioned before, I was pretty late coming to the party with Showtime's Queer As Folk - largely because it's first two seasons were dumb as shit. I finally watched Season 5 on DVD while stuck in hotel room in Toronto for a conference (where QaF was shot, funnily enough), and I've got a bone to pick with you other viewers.

Why does everyone hate Hunter so much?