I know multiple married couples where there ‘traditional’ boundaries aren't applied; apparent infidelity would not actually be breaking any promises in these cases.
I'm curious why it's only politicians who need to be held to this standard - surely vicars and the bosses of large organizations are recipients of a great degree of trust also. (And for that matter sportsmen/women ‘in the field’ - their fans and team-mates trust them not to e.g. throw a match.)
Mostly it's only politicians who bang on about traditional morality - I don't care about their sex life - I care if they want one rule for themselves and another rule for the general public.
I remember around the time of the "Paddy Pantsdown" affair someone on usenet1 said that it was well-known in Lib Dem circles that Ashdown and his wife had an open marriage. I really think politicians would benefit from occasionally saying "yeah, so what?" in response to these stories. Didn't seem to do Alan Clark's reputation much harm.
Max Mosley might as well change his surname to "Nazi Orgy" now, since those two words are going to pop up in any news story about him despite winning the court case (with some justification - "it wasn't a Nazi orgy, it was a German prison scenario orgy" - yeah, right).
1 Yes, I know, but this was someone who was probably in a position to know.
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Date: 2008-07-26 09:24 am (UTC)I know multiple married couples where there ‘traditional’ boundaries aren't applied; apparent infidelity would not actually be breaking any promises in these cases.
I'm curious why it's only politicians who need to be held to this standard - surely vicars and the bosses of large organizations are recipients of a great degree of trust also. (And for that matter sportsmen/women ‘in the field’ - their fans and team-mates trust them not to e.g. throw a match.)
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Date: 2008-07-26 07:00 pm (UTC)Max Mosley might as well change his surname to "Nazi Orgy" now, since those two words are going to pop up in any news story about him despite winning the court case (with some justification - "it wasn't a Nazi orgy, it was a German prison scenario orgy" - yeah, right).
1 Yes, I know, but this was someone who was probably in a position to know.