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I don’t think that what Eliot Spitzer did was all that wrong. I mean the call girl is pretty hot. Governor Spitzer only showed himself to be a normal man, with normal needs. He didn’t hurt anyone. It was purely a business transaction. Prostitution is a victimless crime. Yeah you can say the girls sometimes go on drugs or whatever, but you could say the same about waitresses, and no one blames waitressing or restaurants for it. Drug abuse and prostitution are two different things.

Prostitution is called “the world’s oldest profession” for a reason. We’ve always had prostitutes and we always will have them, at least as long as rich, successful and powerful men (who happen to be mostly old and bald by the time they arrive) keep on wanting to bang hot young sexy things (which means forever). After all, if a man can’t use his wealth and power to get his freak on then what’s the point of wealth and power?

Speaking of the Bill Clinton Monica Lewinski scandal, all the Russians I know heard this story, and they were like, “Yeah, AND…” No one could understand what the big deal was, because in Russia it is expected that a powerful man such as Clinton of course gets a little on the side. (And someone thought he didn’t?) Not only in Russia but in Catholic France too, a rich and powerful man is expected to take first a wife and then eventually a mistress. Every successful man in France has both a wife and a mistress. It’s expected. A wife and a mistress serve two separate purposes; one is useful for taking care of a household and the affairs pertaining to children and the other is good for hot bedroom action. So what’s the problem? Didn’t Rudy Giuliani also have a mistress? Didn’t John McCain also have that sex-bomb lobbyist gal? (But if the story about McCain is true that might be a bit more of a concern, because the implication is that McCain allowed that woman to sway his vote in the senate, in exchange for her letting Grandpa John get the action Ouch!)

So Spitzer’s big problem is that he has a thang for young, hot, 22 y.o. women? And? Men like to have sex with young and attractive women. Get over it already, you prudes!

The problem is not anything that men like a Spitzer or a Bill Clinton do with younger women. That’s only normal. The problem is with the puritanical ways of America. Where he Russian Orthodox and European Catholic (France, Italy) traditions understand the true nature of man as a fallen creature, but the puritan protestant tradition of America misstates human nature and wrongly believes in the perfectibility of man in the here and now (in this world). Of course it sets people up for such falls, and we’ve seen this again and again. How many big-time preachers found themselves demoted by sex scandals in recent years?

The French way (Catholic Orthodox) is that rich and powerful men, such as the president, have a wife and a mistress. Big deal. A man is only human and nothing cleanses the soul better than a little bit of hot raw action, down and dirty. It may not be ideal, but it corresponds with an honest assessment of man’s true nature, as a fallen creature.

By contrast the American way is that any powerful man, a leader or a president, must pretend to be the perfect “family man” completely happy and contented with his own little wifey and children, within the narrow confines of bourgeoisie family relations and Puritan ideals. But how inhuman! This means that his “real man” must stay carefully hidden, even if there is nothing particularly monstrous or unusual in him.

Russia is an Orthodox country too, and also has a more realistic grip on human nature. It seems to me that I remember many photos and videos of various members of the Yeltsin Administration being caught in sexually compromising positions (sometimes with very young girls). But did that lead to their downfall or that of Yeltsin himself? No!

Russia of course has an enormously rich body of literature which gives the Russian soul a reference point on issues touching on sin and the human condition. For example, in Russian author Leo Tolstoy’s classic 1877 book Anna Karenina, in the first paragraphs of the very first chapter we hear the interior thoughts that a gentleman has about his wife, right after she found out and confronted him about his affair with a much younger woman. He does not hate his wife, he still respects her. He still provides support for her and continues to meet all her needs. He does not interfere in what she does with the children or how she runs the household. He simply needs something more and she should be more understanding. After all, she is older now and not the beauty she once was. Later on she will eventually decide to forgive him.

Anna Karenina in English Translation:
http://reactor-core.org/anna-karenina.html#p1c1

Posted March 13, 2008 7:26 PM