View From The Middle
"It" Without Marriage Is Okay Now...Right?
By Charles Rogers

After having seen, and sometimes followed, the posing and posturing of public persons - from movie stars to teachers to public officials to rap people to priests to every other hypocrite who would make righteous examples of themselves - I am convinced: It's okay to do "it."

"It" is no longer sinful.

You know….IT; that Seventh Commandment thing that everybody talks so much about and conveniently disregards when the birds and the bees seem to be too overwhelming.

Since my early teens and before, I'd been told that "it," if done before marriage, is a sin. If done with a teenager - even by another teenager - it's a sin. And if "it" is done after marriage with a person to whom you're not married, you have SINNED (the capital letters and italics, for emphasis, are mine). Stories had been told that I'd be stoned (no, not that kind of stoned - the bad kind!) as a heathen and "condemned to hell for eternity" if I dared even look up the word "adultery" in my personal, imaginary dictionary of comportment. And if you're wondering about those exercises leading up to "it," they too were under the overall heading of "No-No."

But apparently it's okay now. I mean, "it" is okay now.

All of the aforementioned play, foreplay, individual play, double-triple-crowd play, afterplay, playplay and, I guess, play-by-play that were so negative while we were growing up have turned out to be positive. In fact, the way things are going, what with all the positive press "it" has been getting, I haven't even heard the word sin mentioned.

The idea is that, even if what you do is against the law, or, at the least, sinful, if enough people with enough clout do "it," "it" must be okay after all and not a sin. Sounds reasonable.

Just ask those people in the above first paragraph. Just ask ex-Governor Spitzer, who simply had to go "out of town to the city" or "to Washington," away from the wife and to the Mayflower Hotel a few times a month just for a little clandestine "it." Just ask around…and those in the know in Albany will wink and say everything was pretty well on the up-and-up, except for the sneaky part and the $4,000 payoff.

And, oh, yeah, all that media coverage given to Ashley Dupre aka Kristen, Spitzer's pay-for-the-day girlfriend, which will result in probably a book deal and heaven knows what other monetary gain, proves that sin - even the most personal - certainly does pay, especially if you have no morals.

Just ask former New Jersey Governor McGree-vey, his purer-than-snow wife and his/her young boyfriend about those before-marriage trysts that were, well, apparently okay too. Of course, nobody's mentioning his peccadillos with him after their marriage.

Then there's the new Governor Paterson and his stainless wife, who apparently thought that coming out with the news about their infidelity a few years ago somehow made it all right. They admitted to their constituents and to the press (the day after the swearing-in ceremony, you'll notice) that they did a few extramarital "its," as if by volunteering the information in front of a microphone on a state-wide hookup their separate incidents would be put on the back burner and people would begin to realize that "it" outside of marriage is not such a bad thing after all.

Oh, and before all this infidelity business came along, we had the city's Department of Health giving the nod to kids - of just about any age - when they distributed and advertised free condoms this year. This, of course, sent hordes of 15-year-olds running out of their classrooms to follow the directive and try to, uh, get some, trusting that it was legal and moral 'cause it had the city's support. And the city fathers, in their wisdom, made sure they advertised the campaign properly by printing a great big logo on the side of the package saying, "Get Some."

Get some? Ever since I found out girls aren't boys I'd been trying to "get some," but I was told it was wrong, wrong, wrong. Now that we've all essentially been told by the three stooges, McGeevey, Spitzer and Paterson, PLUS the City of New York, that it's right, right, right after all, I've forgotten how to do "it!"

What ever happened to stoning prostitutes?

What ever happened to castrating adulterers (worse than death)?

What ever happened to the proverbial millstone being tied around the neck of the person who gives a bad example to others?

Are you just about sick of other people's "it?"

So am I.

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