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Category Archives: Adultery
How Do You Explain Men Who Can But Don’t Cheat On Their Wives?
The simplest answer is that the opportunity to do something and the desire to act on it are two different things. A man who does not cheat when he could has made a choice, and the reasons vary considerably from … Continue reading
The Rise & Fall Of Wife-Swapping
Why did it become a thing, a literary trope? It became a thing because it sat exactly at the fault line of mid-20th-century social contradictions, and literature loves fault lines. Why it emerged socially first. Postwar marriage was a pressure … Continue reading
The Sum Of All Fears
In this 1991 Tom Clancy novel, the president has an affair with his national security advisor. Liz Elliot liked her drama. She was a bright woman, somewhat elitist – not an uncommon trait in White House officialdom – and definitely … Continue reading
The Secret Life of John le Carre
Adam Sisman writes in this 2023 book: * David claimed that these extramarital relationships were ‘impulsive, driven, short – lived affairs . . . often meaningless in themselves’, but while that might be true of some of them, others appear … Continue reading
Did Biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin Sleep With Her Subject LBJ?
Slate: “The best example is Doris Kearns (now Kearns Goodwin), who spent many hours interviewing Lyndon B. Johnson at his Texas ranch. The author probably didn’t help matters by admitting that LBJ liked to climb into her bed for interviews. … Continue reading
All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Matt Bai writes in this 2014 book: In his 1978 memoir, Theodore White, the most prolific and influential chronicler of presidential politics in the last half of the twentieth century, made John Kennedy and most of the other candidates he’d … Continue reading
Joss Whedon’s ex-wife Kai Cole accuses ‘feminist’ Buffy writer of ‘multiple affairs’
Harry Baldwin posts: Hilarious story on Drudge today: Joss Whedon’s fan site closes down after Kai Cole, his angry ex-wife, exposes him as a fake feminist, a “hypocrite preaching feminist ideals.” Isn’t every male feminist fake? I assume they’re all … Continue reading
Parasha Naso (Numbers 4:21–7:89)
This is the longest Torah portion and typically falls on the first Sabbath after Listen here. * The Torah has no problem with different peoples having different gifts. “The Gershonites had the duty, under the direction of Aaron’s son Ithamar, … Continue reading
Gary Cohn & Dina Powell Having An Affair?
Globalist Gary Cohn and NSC Deputy Advisor Dina Powell are having an affair, Chuck Johnson is reporting. — Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸 (@Cernovich) April 9, 2017
Was Michelle Fields in the #CruzSexScandal ?
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