Sarah Palin in the Bordello of the Mind

Ever since Bill Clinton’s now-historical affair with Monika Levinsky, it seems that the public has begun to realize on a mass scale that politicians are not only human but that they may also have a very active sex-life. This is itself nothing new but parallel to the evolution of the media, the rumor-circuit has also grown into an almost ridiculous broadcasting power. By now, everybody has heard the story of Americas great founding father Thomas Jefferson allegedly fathering several children with Sally Hemmings, one of his slaves. Ben Franklin is supposed to have quite a few mistresses himself. Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F Kennedy are infamous for their womanizing. Sarkozy’s affair has been supplying the newspapers and its readers with updates for months. But how about our female politicans? Are they any better?

In an attempt to answer this subconscious question of millions, the adult magazine Hustler has already produced two movies about the sex-life of former vice-presidential candidate and governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, featuring “Russians who come knocking on her back-door” or a flash-back scene where “young Paylin’s creationist college professor will explain a ‘big bang’ theory even she can’t deny!” The first movie was called “Who’s Nailin’ Paylin?”, then (as an obvious sequel) there came “Obama is Nailin’ Palin” while the X-rated Hustler network right now is working on “Hollywood’s Nailin’ Palin”, scheduled for summer 2009.

Whether these movies accurately depict the sex-life of either Palin or any politician for that matter, might be highly doubted. What seems to be more interesting, though, is that all of this might say far less about Palin herself than about the general citizen and his or her image about the state representatives. Do different moral standards apply to people, simply because they’re acting as politicians on the public stage? Are they “super-human?” Or are their sexual desires maybe as strong (or even stronger) as their desires to be in power? Do we want politicians with more sex-appeal, showing the same amount of “tits & ass” as Schwarzenegger showe muscle in his movies? Truly, what are our expectations of those leaders? And do we maybe secretely see them all as “just a little bit” morally superior only so that we can feel better about our own imperfection by digging in their dirt instead of our own? – All of these are questions which are heavily weighing down on the collective conscience and will undoubtedly come up at the next chance, again and again – until we will have the courage to deal with ourselves instead of “the man in the mirror”.