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M: You assume that such views are necessarily religiously inspired,

Q: Correct.

M: rather than based on personal theory of what really makes people happier and function better.

Q: Then, if also based on personal theory, in my opinion, what you have presented to us is also a personal theory that universalizes sexual matters (as in ignoring individual differences among human beings) and thereby limits, as do most religious traditions, one's reach in trying to understand and accept the full range of humanity's possibile avenues for finding happiness. If these views you have presented are not religiously inspired, they are nontheless consistent with views that are inspired by most religious traditions. And I always wonder what social forces help most to promulgate such views. In my experience and in my opinion, it is, by and larege, religious tradition that most influences the popularity of such views.

M: No, age IN AND OF ITSELF is not necessarily problematic.
But in this case, consider also that there was a
significant power differential, the same that exists perhaps between a client and clinician. For those same afore-unmentioned reasons, I say what the president did was self-serving and potentially psychologically harmful. And, did it make either one of them any happier?

Q: Whether true or not, all of the above is beside the point of Dr. Klein's comment in which he answered your first assertion (in your posting about Crazy Horse) in which you stated that BECAUSE of the age difference between Mr. Clinton and his adult sexual partner in the oval office something was THEREFORE amiss.

However, as Dr. Klein noted in reply to this assertion in the Crazy Horse posting, the age difference of the sort that was found in the oval office encounter is not, by itself, a basis to conclude something is amiss in either party's sexual behavior.

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