It is great sexual thrill for Anthony Weiner to send explicit text message photographs of himself to women not his wife. That is the .com era's variant on the sexual fetish of exhibitionism. When Mr. Weiner's fetish first came to public attention he was a member of the United States House of Representatives. He resigned. He underwent counseling. After only about a year he reentered politics, announcing his candidacy for mayor of New York City. He continued sexting. That is obsessive-compulsive. It is masochistic and, with regard to his wife, sadistic. There is pleasure for some in pain. Mr. Weiner's sext name was "Carlos Danger."
The case of Anthony Weiner is strange, and to this wanderer unfamiliar, variation on Henry Kissinger's maxim that "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac" for it seems it is fame rather than power that is Mr. Weiner's aphrodisiac. The thrill is proportional to the danger.
A flasher needs an audience. The danger that Mr. Weiner thrills to seek is public, the humiliation that he courts is public. These are social fetishes. Mr. Weiner's sexual partners are the people of New York City.
The case of Anthony Weiner is strange, and to this wanderer unfamiliar, variation on Henry Kissinger's maxim that "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac" for it seems it is fame rather than power that is Mr. Weiner's aphrodisiac. The thrill is proportional to the danger.
A flasher needs an audience. The danger that Mr. Weiner thrills to seek is public, the humiliation that he courts is public. These are social fetishes. Mr. Weiner's sexual partners are the people of New York City.
