General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: David Gergen-- "great men have affairs" ---Fuck you David! [View all]Considering that this quote is taken out of context, I will take it on what it says: Significant, or powerful men have lovers outside of marriage. I think that is probably true: power is a terrific aphrodisiac for many women and men who stand far out ahead of the pack often have more than one woman at some point.
I will go so far as to say that humans are not, by nature, monogamous. If a couple can each go with having only one sex partner during the course of a lifetime--say, fifty years of marriage--more power to them. I would hazard that the vast majority of people do not do so and we had best not impose unnatural moral values on them.
I do not care that Clinton messed around, nor do I care that the general did so; my issue is that they did so (apparently) in a deceitful manner towards their spouse. Who knows, there is the possibility that their wives tacitly accepted that their men would mess around and only did not want it to become common knowledge and thereby become an embarrassment.