But Tobias is the Administration’s tool in Africa, to ensure that efforts to contain the spread of HIV and AIDS don’t, in some oblique way, send the message that the US government thinks non-procreative sex is “OK.”

So there’s a certain relevance — oh, we’ll call it irony — to Tobias getting caught.

Of course, abstinence proponent that he is, I suppose his defense has more plausibility than it otherwise might — surely if anyone would pay a prostitute not to have sex with him . . .