"those men are adept at controlling their natural urge to roam. I think that most faithful married men would agree that they still like to look...."

what you are doing is simplistically reducing a gender to be the victims of their own lust, and I don't buy it for a second. You're also taking the point away from ACTIONS, and back toward thoughts.

Condit was not just 'looking'...

Certainly many married guys still look, but the very concept of making those vows represents a serious pledge before fellow Man. All of our best friends come to see us get married. Everyone knows what questions will be asked, and most have them practically memorized just from life experience.

'Do you promise to love and cherish, in sickness and health, for richer or poorer, forsaking all others, until death do you part?'

The vows are given for a reason; the questions are asked for a reason.

Merely looking at beauty does not an adulterer make, Julie.

Condit could have walked down any beach in America and looked at pretty girls in swim suits-- he CHOSE to cheat on his wife and he did it physically.

Also, I really don't think that 'men of Power automatically disregard moral convention and ethical restraints simply because thier EGOS demand gratification.'

Paglia wants nothing more than justify the most vile behaviours by mocking Bauer's moral perspective, and so she insults the man by claiming that he secretly wants to do the very behaviour that he points out is wrong. And by saying 'may the force be with you' it almost appears you are making the same claim of me...

several reasons why that dog don't hunt, Julie...

and the first one is that I know I am very much straight; but thanks for the psychoanalysis, counselor...

and the nextt one is that merely because I disagree with the all encompassing scope of sexuality that is thrust up and held to the light as an 'alternative' does NOT mean that I secretly crave to do such in my own mind, and I am certain Bauer felt the same way.

Oh no-- he saw and he didn't like; and Paglia threw some simplistic psychoanalytical hogwash (which dressed down a little was nothing more than an insult) at him...

Condit should IMMEDIATELY resign, Julie.

You also might be interested to know that many men, and I mean MANY of them, who are highly creative and intelligent, are not overtly sexual beings. Their sexual nature is not a huge part of their lives, and in fact that is often a COMMON corrolary factor in their character. I've know many guys who could easily be a genius in their own field, smart as a whip intelligent cats who could sit up all nite and explain to you how we can't get out of the star system in a space ship, even if we had the propulsion,

because the level of acceleration that we'd have to maintain would simply kill the heart, and if the ship was slowed enough to make a 2G environment possible then you'd run into lifespan problems.

I've known some guys who are creative geniuses as well. They write MUCH BETTER than the fluff that goes out in Sunday editions and ends up in the waste paper baskets beside the toilet. Or they PAINT. ACT. SING.

Whatever...

To merely classify all of faithfull married men as 'driven by a primordial sex drive which compells them in other directions when they are unable to sate it in the most natural manner' is a simplistic paradigm, because there really ARE men for whom sex is not a defining characteristic of their lives. For them it's over rated anyway.

If you've just put the finishing touches on the computer that launches Atlantis, ya might not have to run to a strip club to find nirvana.

And we guys do some cool things like that all the time.

The reason WHY Condit hasn't resigned yet is because we haven't put enough pressure on him as a society, but it's gaining strength. I would think that women everywhere would look to a guy like Condit and say that he represents the worst sort of man...a man who WAS led by his sexual nature, and one who had no character or integrity. The fact that we don't have a great deal of moral outrage at his conduct says a little about hwo far morality has fallen in this land.

As far as I am concerned, if his own wife couldn't trust him, then the voting public of California certainly shouldn't.