I don't know, Ben Franklin was a creepy, dirty old man who liked to chase teenage girls, but I don't think that takes away from his contribution to society. Kennedy supposedly had lots of affairs, but he's practically deified in some circles. Martin Luther King was a plagiarist and also apparently had some extramarital affairs, but this didn't make him unsuccessful or ineffective. People are more complicated than that. It doesn't follow that, because, say, I'm into bondage, fursuits, infantilism, and polyamory (FOR THE SAKE OF DISCUSSION, NOT AS POINT OF FACT), I'm going to be less of a computer programmer.

I think the public does not have the right to know or care where a politician is putting his dick, unless he's putting it in the member of the public in question or his/her close female relative, or the member of the public in question is the politician's wife, into whom the politician is NOT putting his dick. In Clinton terms, the only people his blowjob should have mattered to are him, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and Hillary Clinton. It's just not anyone else's business.

But we are a nation of busybodies (and so are you guys in the UK, from what I can tell).