I believe the United States has double standards as far as sex is concerned. So much about the United States is sexually oriented. The freedom of sex, the lust for sex, the millions (or billions?) of dollars spent on enhancing sexual pleasures and discovery of newer drugs so that sex can be enjoyed even when one has at least one foot in the grave. Marriages are no longer sacrosanct, they are contracts not so much to raise a loving family but to provide sexual enjoyment. Politicians are products of this obsessive sexual milieu so why should anyone expect them to be saints in their public life?

Of course it all boils down to whose moral standards are we going to judge them by? If these standards are not observed by anyone can we legitimately apply them to politicians? For someone whose sex life began some sixty years ago sex outside of marriage is a sin because to me sex is for procreation and not for pleasure alone. But in the 21st century this line of thought is blasphemous. Today sex is nothing more than physical enjoyment, like eating ice cream when you feel like it.

The moral standards for human behavior have been set by human beings and, therefore, they can be changed and even challenged by human beings. To those of us who have remained faithful to one partner in our collective lives such promiscuity is unpardonable and a violation of the commandments. To the more modern who believe in sex as a pleasurable pastime they should stop indulging in double standards.