washingtonienne.
¶ by Rob FrieselI need more time to read this. I don’t need more time to know how I feel about the first third…
…she detailed the peccadilloes of the men she said were her six current sexual partners, including a married Bush administration official who met her in hotel rooms and gave her envelopes of cash; a senator’s staff member who helped hire her, then later bedded her; and another man who liked to spank and be spanked…
In a culture increasingly nervous about its own values, numbly sinking into the sofa at night to watch trash reality TV shows and wondering if our own 14-year-old sons and daughters are casually “hooking up,” it’s satisfying to have a bona fide blog slut to flog. Fuck you, Washington. Fuck you, America. Fuck you, “married Bush administration official who met her in hotel rooms and gave her envelopes of cash”.
But the real question the scan raises is: Are sexual ethics deprecated? Or more pertinent than ever?
“Now, this led to a good deal of general frustration, for people are naturally censorious and love nothing better than to criticise others’ shortcomings. And so it was that they seized on hypocrisy and elevated it from a ubiquitous peccadillo into the monarch of all vices. For, you see, even if there is no right and wrong, you can find grounds to criticise another person by contrasting what he has espoused with what he has actually done. In this case, you are not making any judgment whatsoever as to the correctness of his views or the morality of his behaviour–you are merely pointing out that he has said one thing and done another…
–Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
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