The Handmaids' Tales

At first, the tales from female servants involving IMF Chief and French presidential aspirant Dominique Strauss-Kahn and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger seem to be polar opposite stories. But there's an underlying truism lurking beneath both stories: How the rich and powerful tend to regard working people, females especially, as their sexual playthings.

To be fair to the Republican Schwarzenegger, Mildred Patricia Baena fared much better than the Socialist Kahn's conquest. The movie star paid his servant $1200 a week and when she retired he set her up in a four bedroom house with a swimming pool and a generous retirement package. The unnamed victim in the alleged Kahn rape was forced to perform down-and-dirty oral sex before he scuttled out of town.