# "Do I make you a little horny? Well strip down and get naked!" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 30, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687 "2006-09-30T01:54:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/101 "2006-10-01T03:56:51Z")
[QUOTE=Frostillicus] Does anyone have the scoop on how it is that this long-brewing scandal happened to leak right now? Did the page in question talk? [/QUOTE] Dunno. At any rate, the Pubbies have no cause for complaining about the timing; if they’d dealt with this last year, it wouldn’t be biting them on the ass now. And **Dio** : you’re braver than I am. Redstate’s about my limit. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/102 "2006-10-01T04:00:36Z")
There were more than one. There was one such incident last year(?) and the matter was kept quiet because, ah, uh, out of deference to the parents. (Let us pause a moment to reflect on the sensitivity displayed. OK, that’ll do.) The most recent incident (and this is just gathered from all over, memory only…), the focus of his attention was much less appreciative, and copied the e-mails and pictures around to his friends, as an example of shock and ewwwww! And from there to the _Washington Post_… ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/103 "2006-10-01T04:13:56Z")
[QUOTE=Frostillicus] Does anyone have the scoop on how it is that this long-brewing scandal happened to leak right now? Did the page in question talk? [/QUOTE] > [@](#): > > The emails have been circulating since they were posted on an anonymous blog on Sunday. An ABC News Web site posted an item about them Thursday afternoon and was the first to report that the Mahoney campaign was calling for an investigation. Also: > [@](#): > > The boy, who is not being identified because of his age, told the St. Petersburg Times in an interview last November, when the **[St. Petersburg]** Times first learned of the emails, that he cut off correspondence with Foley. [http://www.sptimes.com/2006/09/28/Worldandnation/Candidate\_wants\_inves.shtml](http://www.sptimes.com/2006/09/28/Worldandnation/Candidate_wants_inves.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/104 "2006-10-01T04:32:46Z")
> [@](#): > > …The improper communications between Congressman Mark Foley and former House Congressional pages is unacceptable and abhorrent. It is an obscene breach of trust," Hastert, R-Ill., Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Majority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said in a written statement Saturday evening. “His immediate resignation must now be followed by the full weight of the criminal justice system.”… _St. Petersburg Times_ Expect Boehner and Hastert to demand a thorough investigation into how the intelligence community failed to make this information available to them. An investigation into what they did with the information they didn’t have will be pursued at a future date, not yet determined. It was kinda looking, for a second there, like Boner was playing a sly game of Kick the Speaker Under the Bus, but maybe this signifies circling the wagons, in effort to preserve bipartisan comity in these perilous times. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/105 "2006-10-01T04:50:33Z")
The St Petersberg Times has been suppressing (or at least) sitting on this story since November? It reminds me of the ending of “Three Days of the Condor” in which Robert Redford (Turner) tells his CIA boss, Higgins (Cliff Robertson), that he just submitted a report of all the events that occurred in the last 3 days to “The New York Times”. **Higgins** : Hey, Turner! How do you know they’ll print it? You can take a walk. But how far if they don’t print it? **Joe Turner** : They’ll print it. **Higgins** : How do you know? ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/106 "2006-10-01T07:03:44Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] If you want to communicate clearly to non-Dopers it should read “Gay Pedophilia: It’s OK If You’re A Republican!” [/quote] I prefer “GOP = Glossing Over Pedophiles” [QUOTE=RTFirefly] At any rate, the Pubbies have no cause for complaining about the timing [/quote] Are you kidding? The Republicans will find _any damn excuse_ to blame this on the Democrats (or anyone else aside from themselves). You know damn well this is SOP for the GOP… ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/107 "2006-10-01T07:12:25Z")
[QUOTE=rjung] I prefer “GOP = Glossing Over Pedophiles” \ The Republicans will find _any damn excuse_ to blame this on the Democrats (or anyone else aside from themselves). You know damn well this is SOP for the GOP… [/QUOTE] Unless you’re down with OPP. Seriously, though, I know it’s a losing battle, but _the term pedophile does not apply here._ These young men were…well, young _men_. Not children. Foley was still way out of line, but not a pedophile. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/108 "2006-10-01T07:31:28Z")
[QUOTE=rjung] … You know damn well this is SOP for the GOP… [/QUOTE] Its that permissive, “if it feels good, do it!” corruption that seeps from a 60’s mentality of irresponsible hedonism and secular humanism. After all, if you love people more than you love God, you’ll pretty much fuck anything… The poison of permisiveness corrupted a fine, upstanding, God-fearing, conservative, family-values homo and made him into a pedophile. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/109 "2006-10-01T12:48:17Z")
[QUOTE=Rilchiam] Unless you’re down with OPP. Seriously, though, I know it’s a losing battle, but _the term pedophile does not apply here._ These young men were…well, young _men_. Not children. Foley was still way out of line, but not a pedophile. [/QUOTE] And as I said before, “pedophilia” is becoming in common usage a term meaning anyone who enjoys sex with underage people, no matter what the age involved is. Almost nobody knows what ephebephilia is. So your point while correct is moot. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/110 "2006-10-01T13:03:05Z")
was doing the same stuff-he plied a teenage page boy with vodka and then sodomized the boy. The then-democratic house didn’t do anything. Ex-rep Studds is held in high esteem…and then we have Brney Frank (D-MA): he had a boyfriend, who was running a gay brothel in Frank’s Washington apartment. Rep. Frank wasn’t censured at all. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/111 "2006-10-01T13:28:20Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] was doing the same stuff-he plied a teenage page boy with vodka and then sodomized the boy. The then-democratic house didn’t do anything. [/QUOTE] He was censured by the House of Representatives, so you’re incorrect. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/112 "2006-10-01T13:40:20Z")
And, more importantly, Studds “publicly acknowledged his homosexuality” (according to Wikipedia, which also mentions that this was already known by his constituents), ran for re-election and was re-elected five more times. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/113 "2006-10-01T13:43:44Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] was doing the same stuff-he plied a teenage page boy with vodka and then sodomized the boy. The then-democratic house didn’t do anything. Ex-rep Studds is held in high esteem..and then we have Brney Frank (D-MA): he had a boyfriend, who was running a gay brothel in Frank’s Washington apartment. Rep. Frank wasn’t censured at all. 😕 [/QUOTE] OK, so was Barney Frank’s buddy running a gay brothel that employed the Republican guy who got press credentials to the Bush White House? Or would that just be too unlikely? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/114 "2006-10-01T13:45:27Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] Rep. Gerry Studds (D-MA (Retired)) was doing the same stuff-he plied a teenage page boy with vodka and then sodomized the boy. The then-democratic house didn’t do anything… [/QUOTE] > [@](#): > > [Gerry Studds](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Studds#Congressional_page_sex_scandal) > Studds is remembered chiefly for his role in the Congressional page sex scandal in 1983, when he and Representative Dan Crane were censured by the House of Representatives for separate sexual relationships with a minor – in Studds’s case, a 1973 relationship with a 17-year-old male congressional page. > … > …Later, at a press conference with the former page standing beside him, the two stated that what had happened between them was nobody’s business but their own. I’m sure you can provide a cite showing that this known about before 1983 :dubious: and that the Republicans didn’t bring it up just to take some of the heat off Crane? [QUOTE=ralph124c] …Brney Frank (D-MA): he had a boyfriend, who was running a gay brothel in Frank’s Washington apartment. Rep. Frank wasn’t censured at all. 😕 [/QUOTE] > [@](#): > > [Barney Frank](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Frank#National_politics) > In 1990, the House voted to reprimand Frank when it was revealed that Steve Gobie was running a prostitution business from Frank’s apartment. Frank had dismissed Gobie earlier that year after learning of Gobie’s activities. > > …The House Ethics Committee recommended Frank be reprimanded because he “reflected discredit upon the House” by using his congressional office to fix 33 of Gobie’s parking tickets. Attempts to expel or censure Frank failed; instead the House voted 408-18 to reprimand him. What the fuck does Barney Frank have to do with this anyway? Wait, I see it now, “he had a boyfriend”, “gay brothel”, “sodomy”, it’s not sex with minors, it’s “icky gay butt sex” with or without minors. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/115 "2006-10-01T14:14:15Z")
[QUOTE=crowmanyclouds] What the fuck does Barney Frank have to do with this anyway? [/QUOTE] I’m smelling a “talking point”. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/116 "2006-10-01T15:28:38Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] I’m smelling a “talking point”. [/QUOTE] Well, that would not be how I’d describe the odor. The proper rule is, if a Republican gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar, **immediately** bring up something – **anything** – that a Democrat once did that is in some way remotely connected. Failing that, Bill Clinton getting a blow job and “committing perjury” (don’t bother) is useful for all such purposes. “GWB just launched an all-out nuclear attack on China, and 300 million people are believed to be dead as a result!!!” “Yeah, but Bill Clinton got a blowjob and lied about it!” “GWB believes it’s perfectly legal and moral to lock people up indefinitely and torture them.” “Yeah, but Bill Clinton once tried to make money off a shady real estate deal.” And on. and on. and on. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/117 "2006-10-01T16:04:53Z")
[QUOTE=rjung] I prefer “GOP = Glossing Over Pedophiles” [/QUOTE] Nope, it’s “GOP = Got another page” ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/118 "2006-10-01T16:13:36Z")
> **[Boehner Blocks Pelosi's Investigation Resolution: Surprise!](https://crooksandliars.com/2006/09/30/boehner-blocks-pelosis-investigation-resolution-surprise)** > > Boehner objects because he hasn't seen the resolution. Hmmm. Might it be because your hands are a bit filthy regarding the Foley Sex scandal cover-up Politics is some boring stuff. Notice the booing at the end where Pelusi requests a recorded vote. I’d like to see the results of this recorded vote. Anybody want to do the work for my lazy ass and post a link? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/119 "2006-10-01T16:17:22Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] and then we have Brney Frank (D-MA): he had a boyfriend, who was running a gay brothel in Frank’s Washington apartment. Rep. Frank wasn’t censured at all. 😕 [/QUOTE] Why _should_ he have been censured? 😕 You DO understand the difference between fucking children and fucking adults do you not? Also, what’s wrong with a gay brothel? ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/120 "2006-10-01T16:32:08Z")
[QUOTE=TokyoPlayer] Nope, it’s “GOP = Got another page” [/QUOTE] Think of joke. Make sure it works. Preview Post :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687.md?page=7)