On Sep 30, 2006, at 6:01 PM, B.K. DeLong wrote:
> For a fifty-year old congressman having an explicitly sexual
> conversation with a kid who works for him, even after he claims to
> be underage), while perhaps not a shocking sex crime....certainly
> creepy and incredibly inappropriate for a congressman....
Creepy and inappropriate. yeah, but it'd be nice if it all made us think about sexual repression & hypocrisy. The guy's gay, be he couldn't reveal that because it would ruin him politically - and to prove himself not sexually suspect, gets invovled in child predator politics. "We watch our library books more closely than sexual predators," said he, even though their names are all over the web.
Actually I don't think hypocrisy is the right word, since the whole moralizing set-up seems almost to require a secret life of sin, as a condition of possibility or something.. Prostitution and traditional morality go hand in hand, just like vows of celibacy and altar-boy lust.
Doug