cigalechanta

hveryfunny andttp://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/french-politics-scandal/?_r=0

very funny take on the Paris sex scandal

kerouac

Do they actually consider that to be a scandal in the U.S.?

Robert2533

A Paris sex scandal? I guess some would consider something like this as a scandal if you happen to be stuck in Boston during a very long, cold and snowy winter.

nytraveler

It seems to me that the French may be very good at exploring their sexuality but not so good at actual adult love.

But agree that this is not a political scandal - just a nasty personal mess.

Only those who complained about Bill Clinton's indiscretion would think so - the same people who seem to confuse the presidential oath of office with the wedding vows.

kerouac

Well, there are fewer messy divorces than there used to be because the number of marriages in France is down to the same level as in 1950 when the population was 41,800,000 compared to 65,800,000 now.

Robert2533

And so it goes! (Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five)

cigalechanta

I doubt most Americans follow this and may not know who DSK is.

Grandma

cigale… we certainly know who DSK is here in Manhattan -

But at my age all I can say about all these stories, situations, etc….

'Twas ever thus.

sandralist

>>It seems to me that the French may be very good at exploring their sexuality but not so good at actual adult love. <<

????

Am I the only person who has concluded nytraveler only travels to ny but has never lived there? Or never leaves her airconditioned apartment if she does? Or had a conversation in French (let alone a French lover).

She must have a unique definition of "adult" love. A uniquely childish one.

dwdvagamundo

So you super-sophisticates don't regard the criminal trial of the former head of the IMF and would-be President of France for pimping to be a sex scandal?

66 million Frenchmen must be wrong:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...f-voyeurs.html

Robert2533

You're referring to an article pinned by an Englishman living abroad in France talking about how the French feel about this story? Actually, it's more of a soap opera, a distraction from everything else going on right now.

Besides, it's French people, not Frenchmen.

Bedar

It's a comedy right out of a Pink Panther movie, esp going off on his scooter to see a girlfriend !

kerouac

I am always amazed when people from one country try to pin their values on another country. In that case, perhaps the values of Saudi Arabia or Iran should be applied to the United Kingdom or the United States, and then we would have a whole lot of scandals to talk about.

dwdvagamundo

Robert--

What else is a sex scandal except "a soap opera, a distraction from everything else going on right now?" It's certainly been in the French on-line newspapers a lot lately.

And I said and meant "66 million Frenchmen". It's a riff on an old song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-IP0DE2kTI

dwdvagamundo

Kerouac--I don't think that we uptight and insular Americans are just making this up:

http://prdchroniques.blog.lemonde.fr...vocats-de-dsk/

kerouac

I think you may be confusing the issues. Illegal activity and immoral activity are completely different things.