Per elikapeka in another post:
I can remember one woman politician who had a sex scandal - US Rep Helen Chenoweth from Idaho. Other than that, can't think of one.
I think these scandals at this level happen more often with men because as a general rule, women are attracted to powerful men. Men are not attracted to powerful women.
That got me thinking, and it was not too long ere I had come up with a few names of powerful women who were involved in a sex-related scandal of some kind.
First there was Eve. Granted, she was probably not real, and granted that the scandal she was involved in was not caused by sex. On the other hand, she was a powerful woman, and her scandalous behavior did eventually end in sex.
And what about Cleopatra? According to Bertolt Brecht's "Song of Solomon,"
Two emperors died
to serve her lust.
She whored herself to death, yes she did
and withered into lovely dust.
And then there was Catherine the Great. Forget that nonsense about her and a horse. She had plenty of other lovers well qualified to satisfy her, including one who happened to be her Minister of War.
And don't forget Amy Semple McPherson. McPherson was a politically astute and powerful radio evangelist of the 1920s. She disappeared one spring day in 1926 (while swimming) initiating a nationwide manhunt. McPherson later turned up in Mexico, claiming to have been drugged and kidnapped. However, evidence that emerged during a grand jury investigation strongly suggested that McPherson had spent the whole ordeal of her "kidnapping" shacked up with a man who was married to someone else.
So, although I agree with elikapeka that women in politics are the exception when it comes to sexual naughtiness, they are not absent from the rolls. Perhaps, as someone else has said, they lack only the opportunity. So just give them time. I am confident that they'll catch up.
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