One of the most outrageous news item that is being reported by the media over the past few days is about the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (Berlo) and his amazing libido! Berlo has always been a bit controversial but this time he is in the dock for sexual encounters with minors, vivid details of which appear in the media now on a daily basis. One of them being that he had a harem of a few pretty young women just outside Milan which was the venue for some wild parties. I am thinking, at 74, this is not bad at all!
At first, I was shocked that a sitting Prime Minister could conduct himself in such a manner. But then the more I think about this, it is becoming very apparent to me that there is definitely a strong co-relation between politicians (especially if they are in power) and sex! And then I said to myself, this is how the western world is. Really? The chubby cheek N. D. Tiwari immediately came to my mind. At 80, His Excellency, then the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, was not doing bad for himself either, with not one, not two but three escorts at the same time! Talk of staying power!
There are many many more examples not only in India but across the globe, the most powerful of them of course, was Bill Clinton. Eliot Spitzer and John Edwards are other examples from the United States. The erstwhile president of Israel was recently convicted of rape, something that happened when he was in power. Closer home, recently a minor has accused the MLA from Banda of rape. A minister in Goa, Micky Pacheco, got into trouble when his one of girlfriends committed suicide. Then there was the Srinagar sex scandal where many high and mighty in Kashmir politics were said to be involved. Gopinath Munde, it is said, has a dancer girlfriend. I am sure there are many more which have not hit the headlines and this post would have an acreage problem if I were to list down all of them.
So, the question really that I have is, why is there such a strong co-relation? Is it because power corrupts? Does being in positions of power make one's adrenaline more active? Or is it all about easy access? Where is morality in all of this? Are these politicians aware of their moral responsibility? Do they have a moral responsibility towards the populace? Is it just their private lives and they have the right to do what they want to or does being in the positions that they are in give them the unfair opportunity to exploit. And they probably do! Though one may argue that they are humans first and then politicians. And they get exposed more often than others because they are in public life. I am not sure that is really the only explanation for this. But it sure makes me want to get into politics!
Just kidding!
Be good and take care.
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