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"Nowadays it seems that for many people the pattern of accepted activities includes oral sex as third base," Richters and Rissel wrote in "Doing it Down Under." Janssen said it's difficult and unfair to compare terms now to decades ago because society is so different. "People tend to not always define just in terms of behavior anymore, also in terms of intentions," Janssen said. And intentions -- lusting in your heart just like former President Jimmy Carter
-- bring about a whole other issue for politicians, because cheating is so loosely defined, Janssen said. Is it cheating to go out to dinner with someone other than your spouse and not tell, or what about dancing together? Sanford met his future mistress in Uruguay on the edge of a dance floor.
Sanford himself said, "If you're a married guy, at the end of the day you shouldn't be dancing with somebody else." Americans tend to judge politicians more harshly about marital infidelity than Europeans, said Janssen, who is Dutch. It's a cultural thing. But we do have something in common with those across the Atlantic, Janssen said. Europeans don't really have explicit definitions of sex in their languages, either. So, they can be just as vague when they talk about it as we are. ___ The Kinsey Institute: http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/
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