# Ben Stein Sexing Scandal--newslink **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 26, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115 "2014-07-26T19:59:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/1 "2014-07-26T19:59:28Z")
Prepare your Brain Bleach! [http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/225136/the-ben-stein-sexting-scandal-that-will-make-you-want-to-pour-lysol-in-your-eyes/](http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/225136/the-ben-stein-sexting-scandal-that-will-make-you-want-to-pour-lysol-in-your-eyes/) > [@](#): > > Ben Stein is a such weird freaking dude. While you may know that he was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon, that he was in “Ferris Bueller” and “The Wonder Years,” that he had that “Win Ben Stein’s Money” game show on Comedy Central and also that he is not so big on evolution—you may not know that he once wrote a novel called “LUDES” about people doing QUAALUDES or that he is kind of a creepy sex pervert. > > After having waxed poetic about the kinds of women he finds sexually stimulating earlier this month in American Spectator, the very married Stein has found himself caught up in a bit of a sexting scandal with a 24-year-old pregnant performance artist named Tanya Ma, whom he would like to hug and kiss. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/2 "2014-07-26T20:09:17Z")
So are they going to demand investigative photos of his big hard cock now, with forcible administration of inflationary injectibles if necessary? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/3 "2014-07-26T20:16:49Z")
Tanya Ma _Wants to Win Ben Stein’s Money_. I bet she’ll get a nice payoff from this. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/4 "2014-07-26T20:29:13Z")
This was from Ma’s last text. She’d been playing along for awhile. Even sending him multimedia clips. If you accept the money and play the sexting game. Isn’t it a bit two faced to out the other person to the press? No doubt Ben is a perv that gets off on preggo porn. But he’s not hurting anybody. The girl could have shut this down after the first suggestive text. Send me a pervy text and I’ll delete it immediately. I won’t answer back. That ends the sexting game before it gets started. > [@](#): > > I’ve given you my time more than anything. through texting.phone calls, sending multimedia. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/5 "2014-07-26T22:25:27Z")
Oh crap, now besides a Nixon apologist and Creationism defender, he’ll become a born-again MRA. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/6 "2014-07-27T00:28:05Z")
I feel a bit sorry for both of them. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/7 "2014-07-27T02:39:27Z")
Well, it’s better than working at a convenience store completely alone at midnight. Wondering if some jacked up crackhead will rob the place and kill you. There are menial jobs out there that suck the life and soul out of somebody much quicker than doing a few porn videos for a ridiculously rich white guy. I always felt there’s something wrong when somebody works their butt off and their paycheck won’t even stretch to pay the basics. It’s a trap that’s almost impossible to escape from. You need money to quit and get a better job. But you wouldn’t quit the first job if they paid a living wage. People spend years and years in those shit jobs and never get ahead in life. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/8 "2014-07-27T02:50:57Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Isn’t it a bit two faced to out the other person to the press?. Sounds like she outted him because he worte an article in American Spectator making it sound like he was paying her as part of some sort of pro-life charity case, rather then for sexting with him. But as a general rule, if you don’t want your sex-life publicized, its probably best to steer clear of relationships with somone who describes their job as “performance artist”. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/9 "2014-07-27T02:53:57Z")
Don’t Republicans ever just have consensual affairs with mistresses, without money changing hands? It always seems like it is hookers or porn stars or gay airport hookups. Democrats commit adultery, like, well, adults. Republicans are just kinky. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/10 "2014-07-27T02:54:05Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Tanya Ma _Wants to Win Ben Stein’s Money_. > > I bet she’ll get a nice payoff from this. As far as I could follow it, she has already made $1,500. I am not sure why you think she is going to make more, though, unless she continues to string him along and he continues to fall for it, which seems unlikely. The chance for blackmail is blown, and I don’t see what he can be sued for. Neither of them come out looking good from this. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/11 "2014-07-27T03:22:56Z")
She hasn’t released the more explicit sexting texts yet. Ole Ben may want to settle with her before that happens. I hope they don’t get released. There isn’t enough brain bleach in the world to block out what Ben may have said. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/12 "2014-07-27T03:40:58Z")
This is gross. Not the fact that Ben Stein is apparently a human being with a human being’s sex drive (if perhaps some questionable judgment). The fact that it is being made a big lurid scandal of. Who the hell cares if Ben Stein wants huggies and kissies with some woman? And he wrote a novel that features people DOING DRUGS. OMG. That’s SO SUPER FREAKY, MAN. Whatever. Let the man live his life, for god’s sake. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/13 "2014-07-27T04:27:32Z")
Poor Ben Stein, giving a woman $1500 who doesn’t want to fuck him so she will hug and kiss him, then her using that to blackmail him for more. I don’t buy the ‘this is creepy’ bullshit in the article. Anything resembling a normal human sex drive is labeled ‘creepy’ by people nowadays. I’m glad I’m not famous and nobody gives a damn how creepy and pathetic I am. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/14 "2014-07-27T04:46:39Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Poor Ben Stein, giving a woman $1500 who doesn’t want to fuck him so she will hug and kiss him, then her using that to blackmail him for more. He should do the normal thing and marry a woman and give her $150,000.00. She still wouldn’t want to fuck him but eh. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/15 "2014-07-27T05:16:30Z")
I dislike Ben Stein quite a bit, and cheating on his wife does nothing to improve that perception, but the texts don’t seem that crazy. He’s a person who decided to cheat on his partner, like countless people have done. It’s not admirable but it’s not exceptional. It never occurred to me that he was some kind of moral icon, just the opposite in fact. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/16 "2014-07-27T05:24:44Z")
Wait - Ben Stein wrote _Ludes_? I love that book, it’s sitting on my shelf (and yes, apparently it’s by Benjamin Stein). That’s just weird. How did I never know that he wrote it? I read it because I enjoyed the film version, which was called _The Boost_ and starred James Woods. We now return you to your regularly scheduled sexting scandal thread. Ewww. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/17 "2014-07-27T12:36:56Z")
Well, at least now he has a reason for his sad sack persona. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-stein-sexing-scandal-newslink/694115/18 "2014-07-27T12:43:12Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Don’t Republicans ever just have consensual affairs with mistresses, without money changing hands? It always seems like it is hookers or porn stars or gay airport hookups. Democrats commit adultery, like, well, adults. Republicans are just kinky. Republicans believe in capitalism and the free market. Democrats just want free stuff that someone else is paying for 🙂