I like your posts and they show some real thought. The front-loaded/back-loaded trading of life’s best assets was very well put.
About Spitzer, I don’t know the whole story but the fact that he betrayed an accomplished woman for a call-girl smacks of sexual frustration to me. This is pure speculation, but his wife’s “Southern Babtist” upbringing might indicate a certain amount of conservativeness in life. Perhaps he was so worried about his public image or was so distrustful of his wife that he wouldn’t indulge in his sexual desires with her, so sought them elsewhere (and didn’t plan on getting caught). It might be hard to portray a decent, upright persona to the public while still being a man with all kinds of kinky desires he just couldn’t indulge with the churchy missus. It does look like he shouldn’t have gotten married but priorities in life are a moving target.
As I said this is all speculation and nobody but the Spitzers know the whole story. Some mainstream media monkeys or boob-tube-educated idiots might rush to call him slime, but they of course want to see it their way. There are two sides to every story, not just “the man is always wrong”. Give me the whole, inside story from the day Spitzer met his wife to the day they got divorced, then we can say who is wrong.
I have heard it hinted here or flat-out stated that some women believe it is acceptable to hold out on sex in order to get something they want from a man. If this is acceptable, then so too should the act of men seeking sex elsewhere. I think if society cares so much about sex scandals they should only vote for asexual leaders.
IMO today’s approach to sex and marriage and family are an abomination of nature. I guess it was a trade-off when we got those higher reasoning brains… they came with all kinds of psychoses. For the record, Spitzer did not leave his wife. He seems to have wanted the best of both worlds.
