Who do we think we are?

In response to my last article, "Oh Grow Up!" a correspondent asked why the senator couldn't have waited to be in a gay bar, instead of in a restroom.

I've been solicited by lesbians and bis and straights, on the street, in the restroom, at parties and they (for crying out loud, I'm 55 with a turkey neck!!!) still do it!  My reaction?  "Not interested."  "Not my thing."  "Thanks for the compliment -- but I'm with someone."  All nice and mature.  Like grown-ups are supposed to behave.  Yes, I've had to unwind hands from my waist or tell a wife afterwards, but that's the solicitor's and his or her mate's problem, not mine.  Certainly not a cop's.

We have to get it through out heads -- humans are fiercely sexual.  We want sex all the time and if we see the chance we'll make a try.  It's what all those dating sites are about.  If you're an adult in an adult world, somebody is going to try to hit on you.  You will find yourself wanting to hit on somebody else.  Guess what -- it's normal!

Where the hell do we get the idea we can prosecute anybody for just misjudging whether another adult is interested?  Who am I who to tell you whether you want to treat sex as love, marriage, or just an economic exchange?  Who are you to tell me?  This is none of your business and none of mine.  If I attack you, if you try to force me, then it's assault, then it's a crime.  But waggling your fingers at somebody who was making eyes at you?  PLEASE.  The cop was, to put in a high-school parlance, a prick-tease.

If you don't like the way the pro scene looks, then legalize it, and make health-care available.  Make adults stop raping children and sending them out on the street, afraid to live at home, but having no other way but their sexuality to earn money to eat -- and these days, even to drink water!

Trolling for adults doing what adults have every right to do is just denying how women and children are really being treated.  If you can stand it, watch the movie "Monster" -- and remember the lessons of that film are:  Don't rape your kids, and don't abuse prostitutes.

Or as my mother used to say:  "Never mess with a stranger.  You don't know what she may have in her purse."