Personally, I wouldn't have employed the term 'mistake'...

[oursin]

I have now discovered that he recently slept with a sex worker.... He says it was a mistake and is devastated that he's hurt me.

'Mistake' suggests to me a certain degree of inadvertency, like getting on the wrong bus, or the non-stop train to Inverness instead of the stopping local one, rather than something which does, after all, require some intentionality.

(Outside of the kind of porn movie scenario in which somebody just happens to be stark naked when opening the door to the pizza-delivery person.)

Even if one wonders if the reason he used protection at all was because the sex worker in question insisted.

I am, though, also intrigued by the terminology of 'I have now recently discovered' - how? If he had told her, I'd have expected 'he admitted/confessed/revealed', but perhaps I'm overthinking this.

Comments

[mme_hardy]

That's [edit: DSK's] DSM's response to the orgies he is alleged to have attended in France. As I recall, his lawyer argued that it's very difficult to tell if a naked woman is a prostitute or not.