[TexasCajun]

I think there is a question as to if they were stippers or escorts?

Didn't someone call an escort service?

What's the difference? $20.00 in New Orleans.

[atlaw]

Whether the accused and "the second dancer" (as she has come to be known) are "strippers" is the elephant in the living room.

How odd that the Duke boys paid $800 collectively to ogle a couple of strippers (what, they don't have "gentleman's clubs" in Durham)?

And how odd that the Duke boys called an escort service to hire these two "strippers".

No one is willing to say that the two strippers were in fact call girls, because that opens up some disturbing ramifications. That the Duke boys in fact had sex with the accuser (and possibly "the second dancer"). That the sex was simply what the accuser and "the second dancer" were selling and what the Duke boys were buying. That the evidence of rough sexual activity found by the nurse at Duke hospital was the, um, expected result of the transaction, or perhaps the result of one of numerous prior transactions that the accused engaged in before arriving at the Duke party around midnight. Etc., etc.

Heaven forbid we should actually ask these questions. Better to pretend that $800 is the going price for a couple of "exotic dancers".