Whether its impeaching a sitting President over a blow job, technicly lieing about a BJ, or Weiner sending pictures of his naughty bits, the whole idea of legal private personal behavior is being criminalized by social conservatives. When Spitzer paid a prostitute he lost the Govenorship. When Vitter saw a prostitute he was re elected.

Little Hawk is half right when he says this is a sordid forgettable affair but when viewed as a political social phenomena it really does have great import on the principle of freedom and privacy.

Instant gratification and instant exposure over the internet compounds this issue. While everyone knew about FDR's mistress and his wife's sexual preference it was not a big deal. Now virtual sex by private masturbation in the privacy of his own home is considered grounds for investigations, firing and criminal probes just seems beyond the absurd.

Stewart had me laughing out loud last night. (blood and all)
There really is a powerful appreciation of shaudenfreud in this country.

Though the scandal is pithy it sure is a pity that a man who fights for the rights of the common man and not corporations has suffered a great fall and is reduced to letch who may soon crawl away. Forty years ago I did not expect smoking cigarettes would become an offense prosecutable by law. Today I am begining to suspect that masturbation in private may become the next new misdeamenor in the American culture war.




PS

Notice that not another man here stands for masturbation. I guess they all sit down for it. In this day there is more bandwidth devoted to internet porn than any other single subject, but that is a different debate I suppose.


note to lively,
I speak the way I do not because I am nasty or mean. I speak frankly because I have the morals to back up my integirty. I have never cheated on my wife, ever. I have never broadcast pictures of my genitals. Prior to marriage I could count the number of lovers on my fingers, and a few toes. Many people have thousands of sex partners because it is as normal as shaking hands for them. To each their own.






A warning for people who worship romance or sexual promisuity; it will lead to a constant feeling of having to maintain a frequency or competiveness that will end in a feeling of personal failure, disease, misplace jealousy or betrayal. If you over complicate anything including masturbation you are in for a mighty big fall.
Just ask Keith Carradine. oops, too late for that.