Finnish Minister Catches 'Spitzer Fever'

According to The Daily Mail, Finland's foreign minister admitted sending 200 'dirty texts' to a topless dancer and her porn star sister. Coming fresh on the heels of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's hooker demise, you were probably expecting another apologetic news conference with the wife, meetings behind closed doors and cries for resignation. Not so. This is Finland, people.

Using a taxpayer-sponsored phone, Ilkka Kanerva, 60, sent hundreds of text messages to erotic dancer Johanna Tukiainen and her sister. At a press conference earlier this week, Kanerva admitted, "Messages have been sent, but not in the sense of any deep drama of human relationships." When asked if he knew these women, Kanerva replied, "Yes, but I wouldn't make any diagnosis."

Considering the utter shame, humiliation and exile suffered by the woman Spitzer hired for sex, you would also think that Johanna Tukiainen and her sister would be lighting out for the fjords. Not so. Ms. Tukiainen is surprised by all the attention. "Men are men," she said. "I think that Kanerva has good taste in women in other respects as well."

However, she saved his text messages and is considering making them public.

After the jump, a photo of Kanerva's Text Twosome...

B. Brandon Barker is the author of the novel Operation EMU.