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The Foley-finger no one is pointing

By now we're all pretty much secretly delighted and drunk on the shadenfreude of watching Republican Mark Foley's lurid fall from questionable respectability into the filthy bath-house of underage sex-scandal. But I think we've all been too focused on this GOP horndog to properly point an accusing finger at the OTHER participants in this mess: the 16 year old pages!

Now, I was a 16 year old boy. I was horny all the time. I wasn't gay, but you can be damn sure if I was, I sure as hell wouldn't be IMing sexually with some doughy, 52 year old, right-wing closet queen with bad skin. I mean, come on! A healthy 16 year old boy in a big city like Washington DC, away from his family for probably the first time in his life should be able to attract a much, much, much better class of sexual predator! This is repugnant-- these kids are throwing away their sexual bloom of youth for what? Power? The ultimate aphrodisiac? Bullshit, I say. Washington MUST have a decent population of buff 20-something sexual predators more than happy to take advantage of a young, nubile page. There's absolutely no reason for these pages to have to settle for these right-wing pasty trolls.

So, young, horny congressional pages, I'm taking you to task here. Step up and take some pride in yourselves as sexual beings! Stop settling for the first Representative that comes along and sends you some dirty emails. You're the ones in power here. It's time to use it.