To the potential male suitors of this petite brunette with the perky smile and pixie laugh, be forewarned: Jessica Cutler does not Google well, by her own admission.

Anyone with half a pulse residing in the Washington, D.C., area last summer knows exactly who she is. The 27-year-old is the Capitol Hill staffer whose sexploits with six different men — some married, some sugar daddies — were documented in an online diary, Washingtonienne.com, which was eventually made public when leaked to the blog Wonkette.com. Sen. Mike DeWine, a Republican from Ohio, immediately fired Cutler for “unacceptable use of Senate computers” once news broke in mid-May, shortly after she posted her first blog entry on May 10, 2004.

Cutler’s newfound notoriety resulted in a Playboy spread and a six-figure book deal. Since it was published last June, The Washingtonienne, a largely autobiographical novel, has hit the Washington Post best-seller list.

And, as fame is not complete without a legal battle, one of the blogged-about men reportedly filed a lawsuit in May, shortly before Cutler’s book was released, seeking compensation for the “humiliation” he endured due to “a gross invasion of his privacy.”

The contents of Cutler’s diary, in which the men were identified by initials, had all of Washington speculating, playing a who’s who game of Pin the Tail on the Staffer. Who is “F” — the Bush appointee who paid her in cash after their mid-day trysts? Who is “JS,” the guy who liked to be spanked in the heat of passion?

One Web site devoted four very detailed pages ruminating about who the Cutler six could be. Cutler, for her part, remained mum about the men’s identities in a phone interview with KoreAm.

The media depicted her as an iconic cross-breed, something of a mix between Monica Lewinsky and Samantha of “Sex and the City.” The brouhaha over Cutler’s publicized promiscuity had some people asking, what’s the big deal?

The Washington Post, in August 2004, reported Cutler’s story as part of a larger sociocultural phenomenon, in which the daughters of the women who broke ground with the sexual revolution of the 1970s have perhaps taken their inherited liberation a bit too far and are thus left confused and floundering in the gray waters of sexual ethics. The result, some say, is a permissive “Girls Gone Wild” society, in which Cutler felt justified in taking money for sleeping with a married man. “I just took a long lunch with F and made a quick $400,” she blogged May 18.

After all, she wrote, “I’m sure I am not the only one who makes money on the side this way: how can anybody live on $25k/year?? I am convinced that the Congressional offices are full of dealers and hos.”

Washington, Cutler says, is “Hollywood for ugly people.” Those for whom power is an aphrodisiac need only to have average looks and flaunt their sexual availability. Even Plain Jane, if she flashed just the right amount of leg, could probably have Tom DeLay’s chief of staff — the equivalent of Brad Pitt in the Washington political circuit — according to an insider who requested his name be withheld. For men, moving up is more about membership in a good ol’ boys club. If you’re a woman trying to get ahead in D.C., the insider says, promiscuity is the name of the game, and promotions are the rewards.