Infidelity and Social Media
Has social media opened the door for new ways to be unfaithful thus ending more relationships now than prior to this outburst of social options? Or, has adultery always been the same but was kept from the public light? First, let’s answer this very complicated question. What is considered infidelity? Most people would shrug their shoulders and quickly answer as they’ve done for centuries, “It is the unforgiveable act of engaging sexually with another person while having a significant other.” This is one of the most common direct answers but, currently there are more ways to be categorized as a cheater without having proof that there was inappropriate contact with another person who isn’t the life partner.
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One clear example would be how differently President Kennedy’s and President Clinton’s affairs were exposed. During the time Kennedy was president there wasn’t any of this social media so everything was kept in silence. It wasn’t after his death in 1963, that different biographers started to surface the rumors about his extra marital affairs. A historian dedicated specifically to research the sexual behaviors of US Presidents, Robert P. Watson, claimed Kennedy’s affairs were the stuff of legends. Moreover, according to the same article “The Sex Life of JFK” printed in October 23, 2013 by Patrick J. Kieger from the National Geographic, Kennedy biographer Robert Dallek talks about him as a “compulsive womanizer.”. On the other hand, fast forward to January 17th,1998, where the Drudge Report first breaks the story about the worst sex scandal in the history of the White House, President Clinton’s affair with 22-year old intern Monica Lewinsky. Although this was pre-Facebook years, we were pretty avid with e-mails and voicemails, and boy did these give the right punches in court.Oh yes, and let’s not forget “the blue dress”, but this is irrelevant in this research. They allegedly had a two-year affair. The media had a fiasco with this scandal and it continued to milk it for more than a year. Sixteen months later, Monica Lewinski even made an appearance on Saturday Night Live after they also used this story week after week as the base of jokes. Can you imagine what that same story would be like today? Maybe the evidence would have included some racy pics of the President, don’t you think? Maybe seeing the details of the alleged affair would’ve been too much for the former First Lady Hillary Clinton to
That one scandal is the Monica Lewinsky Scandal. The ratings of Bill Clinton plummeted drastically once this gut wrenching news hit the media. The highest rating was 73% while the lowest was 37%. His approval ratings and disapproval ratings were clearly affected in 1998 by this scandal. Approval rating of rating of 65% and a disapprove rating of 31%. (Holloway) People were already on edge when starting his presidency by holding too few meetings and being out right rude to reports speaking with aggression. “Bill Clinton started off negatively with his presidency by holding too few press conferences, allowing himself to be criticized for such things as $200 haircuts that held up airline traffic (a story later admitted by reporters to be false), and displaying anger toward critical reporters.”
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Infidelity really isn't anything new. It's as old as civilization itself. The only thing that's changed is that today's world is driven by technology and so it's easier than in the past to get intimate with another person. At the same time, it's also easier to have paranoid/apprehensive
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