{"id":261,"date":"2004-06-17T07:52:26","date_gmt":"2004-06-17T11:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=261"},"modified":"2006-03-26T09:56:34","modified_gmt":"2006-03-26T14:56:34","slug":"portly-pepperpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/portly-pepperpot","title":{"rendered":"“Portly Pepperpot”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suppose Bill Clinton’s “just because I could”\/moral failing explanation for his affair with Monica Lewinsky is better than just coming out and saying, “I felt like hoggin’!”<\/p>\n

If there was one good thing about the Clinton-Lewinsky fling, it was that it allowed me to ask the dual questions:<\/p>\n

a) What constitutes cheating? and<\/p>\n

b) What constitutes sex?<\/p>\n

At least one male friend of mine continues to contend that oral sex isn’t cheating. Of course, when I asked what he’d do if his wife said, “Don’t worry! I didn’t cheat on you! I just gave a guy a blowjob!”, he admitted that he’d likely put her head through a wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I suppose Bill Clinton’s “just because I could”\/moral failing explanation for his affair with Monica Lewinsky is better than just coming out and saying, “I felt like hoggin’!” If there was one good thing about the Clinton-Lewinsky fling, it was that it allowed me to ask the dual questions: a) What constitutes cheating? and b) … <\/p>\n

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