Hah.

But your joke made me think about the difference.  They are practioners of the "loud and proud"  technique and trying to empower themselves,

and Weiner is....

the living image of the unempowered neurotic PORTNOY!

where...on the first page of the novel, one finds this clinical definition of "Portnoy's Complaint", as if taken from a manual on sexual dysfunction: Portnoy's Complaint: A disorder in which strongly felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature....

I thought of Portnoy when I kept seeing people saying "why is this news?" For crying out loud, it's news for the same reason Portnoy's Complaint was a best selling novel, it's news because people always lie about what they are doing sexually and are scared they are going to get caught on the lies, it's news because since AIDS virtual sex of all kinds has been growing by leaps and bounds. And it's news because lots of sex lives, especially those of men, have been changed by virtual sex and the availability of online porn, and like Portnoy hiding his masturbation from his mom in the bathroom and lying about it, they are having a hard time dealing with the reality of that, including having a hard time getting as excited about real women as they used to.

And in today's Times' report on his presser, there was more Portnoy for me, far from loud and proud.

...As the event wore on, the members of the media grilled him about seemingly intimate topics like phone sex and whether he had used his government computer to compose his sexually charged messages. Mr. Weiner, always a voluble figure, could not seem to stop talking, as if the questioning was somehow therapeutic.....