Please, faux prudish right.

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 07:01:00 +0000

In reply to The President and the Porn

Please, faux prudish right. Take Newt Gingrich and his many spousal trade-ins and extra-marital dalliances. There were several other high profile examples of hypocrisy at its finest. Trump just expands that definition, while the liberals evermore flirts with becoming full-on morality scold, but aren't quite sure which rules to anchor themselves to.

The President and the Porn

artappraiser — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 05:55:47 +0000

In reply to (WSJ) Report: Trump Lawyer Paid Porn Actress $130,000 For Silence Just Before Election

The President and the Porn Star

Op-Ed by Michelle Goldberg @ NYTimes.com, Jan. 15

In 1998, the professional moral scold William Bennett published a book titled “The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals.” In it, Bennett described blasé attitudes toward presidential adultery as corrosive. Clinton’s promiscuity, he argued, implicated his fitness for governing: “Chronic indiscipline, compulsion, exploitation, the easy betrayal of vows, all suggest something wrong at a deep level — something habitual and beyond control,” he wrote.

I was reminded of Bennett’s words by David Friend’s fascinating recent book, “The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido,” about the sexual scandals and cultural upheavals of that decade. In retrospect, the dynamics of the Clinton-era culture wars seem blissfully simple, pitting a sexually libertarian left against an aggressively prudish right. It is a cosmic irony that, 20 years later, it is conservatives who’ve finally killed off the last remaining unspoken rules about presidential sexual ethics [.....]

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Please, faux prudish right.

The President and the Porn