[It's pretty obvious that the average CollegeCandy reader has some very strong opinions. Opinions that she likes to share with everyone on the site. We love a strong woman, so we thought we'd give her a real forum to discuss her thoughts, feelings, and perspectives. Every Friday I'll be featuring a hot topic (like whether we're too celeb obsessed!) and leaving it up to you, the readers, to duke it out. So, read it and get your debate on in the comments section below!]

With Tiger’s ladies coming out of the woodwork (seriously Tiger, where did you find the time?) and Ashley Dupre telling everyone who’ll listen that call girls – *ahem*, escorts – save marriages, it seems like everybody is weighing in on infidelity – and we are not about to be left out!

Now admittedly, I’m a monogamy person, but I do get that some people just don’t want to/can’t cut it that way and I give them a little slack. And I have to say, if I were to find out that my guy was sleeping with someone else, (after I finished grinding his man-parts into the floor with my pointiest shoes) I’d probably feel better about him seeing an escort than just some other woman – at least with a call girl, it’s just sex. And I will also admit that call girls tend to be classier about the whole things than mistresses – you don’t see nearly as many of them trying to cash in on sleeping with a celeb. There’s something to be said for being professional about the whole thing, after all, escorts make their living on being discreet and have a lot more clients to lose if they’re seen as blackmailers.

But that same logic that makes an escort seem like a better option might also make it worse. After all, with a mistress, there’s at least some kind of emotional attachment; there must be some level of caring or interest beyond the purely sexual, or else why not just pay for it? Would it hurt less if your man went crawling to someone else for nothing more than a little bump and grind? And if you were on the other end of it – if you were the other woman? Well, I’d definitely rather be wanted for me than for my body (as cool as The Girlfriend Experience made it look). And while it may seem wrong that all these women would cash in on sleeping with a celeb, at the same time, I can understand why they do it. For some I’m sure it’s the money, the fame; but then most of us have at some point had a break up where we just wanted to see the guy squirm. If you had that kind of ammo, if you could make the whole world see him as a jerk, can you really say you wouldn’t have even thought about it?

As the idea of being a call girl becomes more and more opened up with movies and TV shows about it, is it possible that the taboo is turning? Are mistresses the new prostitutes? Or will sex always be dirtier than relationships? Which position would you rather be in?  And what do you think these ladies should do?

So many questions.
Duke it out girls!

At 2:30 pm on June 28th, 20 year old Kazakh model, Ruslana Korshunova, fell from the balcony of her Manhattan 9th floor apartment to her death. Police ruled that her death was an apparent suicide after finding no signs of a struggle in her apartment. Case closed.But the media is refusing to be satisfied, and with good reason — there was no note, and, according to her friends, she seemed to be “on top of the world”.

Hmmmm…. no note, in good spirits… maybe she was “done in”– oh oh oh! By the Russian Mob! Of course! Everyone knows that whenever a beautiful Russian (or former Soviet) bites the dust, the Russian Mob are the culprits. I mean look at “From Russia with Love”, “Eastern Promises”, and of course xXx. Sigh… if only Sean Connery, Vigo Mortenson, or Vin Diesel were on the investigation team.

Luckily the bloggers of Riveronmirror, stepped up to the plate.

Riveronmirror states that the Russian mob has been placing Eastern European and Slavic women in spotlight positions in the fashion industry to fuel a global desire for women bearing these types of features. This global desire, in turn, increases the demand for Slavic models, wives, and escorts—all of who are, apparently, controlled by the mob.

Riveronmirror argues that,

“There is a strong flood of speculation relating to the possibility that Ruslana Kurshanova wanted to end [her] contract (with whomever she REALLY was working for) and this (teenage-model flesh-peddling) organization used her as an exemplary point.

The deepest undertone of this case has to do with the explotaition of images in order to produce an effect that is channeled to the benefit of a few enthroed media wizards.”

The bloggers then defend themselves from mounting criticism noting that they aren’t saying that Korshunova was engaged in prostitution, nor are they even saying that her death wasn’t a suicide.

But… (there’s always a but right?)

“We have noticed there are more strange cases of Eastern European models dying under mysterious situations and will publish soon more evidence as our contact in Moscow, Vasily, sends us his report. Meanwhile we will be investigating in New York.”

I would like to put forth my own conspiracy theory: Since they went public with this theory, RiveronMirror’s blog has attracted the attention of international media outlets—from the LA Times to the UK Telegraph. Bloggers make money from site traffic. Hmmmmmmm…. could it be that the good people of RiveronMirror saw an opportunity to catapult their site beyond the gossip mill?

It certainly is interesting that they suddenly have a source in Moscow…

I guess we’ll just have to see how this pans out. Either way, this story is still a sad, sad mystery.

[Update: According to the New York Daily News, Korshunova was in financial trouble and depressed over being in love with a married man at the time of her death. The Daily News interviewed her life coach, Vladislav Novgorodtsev, who revealed that she had attempted suicide in the past and had been incredibly unhappy. Riveronmirror, however, maintains, that reports such as this are "exactly what the Russsian Mafia wants to hear."]