Sunday June 12, 2011 at 21:12

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Who needs a unifying theme anyway?: It's the sex, stupid.

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(I reserve the right to use this space to refine my thoughts and see if I can better express my ideas. So I’ve said some of this before.)

Whenever a sexual scandal pops up in politics these days, it’s common to hear people justifying their interest in the scandal by saying that ‘it’s not the…

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  1. jmath reblogged this from indefensible
  2. nostrich said: The majority of politicians spend the better part of the day lying. But that’s fine, as long as they’re not lying about their private sex life.
  3. marleymarley said: We’re stuffed fulled of puritanical shit. This is never going to stop happening. Our society is based on lies - we willfully ignore reality and act scandalized when people act according to their natural (suppressed) appetites.
  4. ashleyhandlin said: elected officials arent supposed to lie. theye supposed to own up to whatever they did “wrong”. i think the intensity of this sex scandal was created by the media but wiener made it worse by denying it to the point that he seemed incredibly guilty.
  5. coketalk said: Bravo.
  6. recycledstars reblogged this from mjec and added:
    Omg. Yes. More pointedly, there is a way to go about healthy adult sexual relationships in which lying and/or cheating...
  7. rascouet said: Seriously. And until the American political approach to (adult, legal) sex matures beyond what you can expect of a 12-year-old, I say keep lying about it. Deny it, deny it, deny it, you’ll do us all a favor.
  8. karion said: I just typed out why I disagreed with you, and realized my argument was incredibly melodramatic (the names Susan Smith and Charles Stuart were involved). You may be right, but the only sex part that infuriates me is the public humiliation of his wife