How many cautionary tales about texting nudie pixxx or elaborately written BDSM scenarios (e.g. I am zipped in2 a gimp suit, strapped in a chair w/ no seat, listening to oil the rubbery skin of a suitably-wide eggplant…) must we, collectively, be told around the Internet campfire before people in important public positions stop leaving written records of their sordid sexual lives for us prurient Internet perusers to happen upon? At least one more: a top executive at Hearst Corp. named Scott Sassa has been forced to resign his position as president of Entertainment and Syndication after a Los Angeles stripper he was sexting with on the regular concocted an ultimately unsuccessful extortion plot, proving that you don’t need to actually be a sexting teenager to act like a sexting teenager.
According to the Post, Hearst Corp. is a fastidious and asexual sort of place (in other words, no Bacchic orgies in the boardroom), and its other top execs were dismayed to learn of Sassa’s textual indiscretions, which started harmlessly enough with an L.A.-based stripper sending Sassa, according to a Post source, “sexy pictures.” Sassa responded in kind with a series of texts containing “words you would absolutely not want your boss to see,” a practice that, says the Post‘s source, was fairly common to Sassa in his communications with “many other girls in New York.”