As a French Canadian I have similarities with my French cousins. I think that private life is something that should be …. private. I think that a politician who requests the services of a prostitute is not a scandal per se. It’s a private matter. What is scandalous is that the man in question, Governor Spitzer, was prosecuting people involved in prostitution circles with no mercy. However, the point of this post is that I found an interesting article authored by George Dvorsky saying that Spitzer is not responsible. We should cut him (Spitzer) some slack. Why? Because biology made him do it.

“Indeed, one of the most surprising discoveries of the past two decades has been the extent of sexual infidelity – what scientists call extra-pair copulations. As Barash has noted, “It’s clear that social monogamy — physical association and child rearing between a male and a female — and sexual monogamy are very different things. The former is common; the latter is rare.”Prior to the onset of the monogamous imposition, men of wealth, status and power typically acquired multiple wives and partners. Well over a century ago, a politician like Spitzer would have likely had a mistress and no one would have questioned it. Today, a successful male is likely to have a wife and a girlfriend on the side (along with the hope of not getting caught).”[Sentient Developments] 

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