"Listen, I'm a f---ing steamroller and I'll roll over you and anybody else."

-- Eliot Spizter

Spitzer - identified in the Emperors Club criminal complaint as "Client-9" - was caught Feb. 13 on a federal wiretap arranging for Dupre, whom he knew as "Kirsten," to be delivered to his room at the Mayflower Hotel.

In the complaint, "Kirsten" insisted she didn't find the ex-governor very "difficult," even though her madam warned that he might want "unsafe" sex.

Law-enforcement sources said Spitzer didn't like to wear a condom.

The second hooker-informant also told investigators Spitzer was fond of using sex toys to enhance his own pleasure, the sources said.

"The full portrait of Mr. Spitzer's sexual interests has yet to be told," one source said.

I share the sex worker's sense of relief that Spitzer wasn't difficult. (Although I'm not sure that the many companies and individuals he prosecuted would agree.)

Beyond that, I really and truly don't want to know what toys he was into, much less what he did with them. I'm all for any governor's pleasure enhancement -- whether difficult or easy, and with or without toys -- as long as I don't have to pay for it. But if he was using taxpayer dollars to line his toy chest [CAUTION: very work-unsafe picture], that's when it's time to draw a hard line. At the very least, I'd impose a stiff fine.

I realize that saying this as someone who thinks prostitution should be legalized might make me look like a hypocritical libertarian.

But as the saying goes, hard cases make bad law.

Actually, in an earlier post about sex toys, I argued that "bad cases make hard law." Same difference (although Spitzer probably ought to avoid judges like the one I mentioned, lest his toys be confiscated and never seen again).