Propagated by the church for material gain. It was about property. Especially in the case of priests.

The idea of Catholic celibacy is especially foolish when you realize the reason behind it. Before the middle ages it was allowable for Catholic priests to have multiple wives and mistresses (concubines). But with concerns for protecting Church property from inheritance Pope Pelagius I made new priests agree offspring could not inherit Church property. Pope Gregory then declared all sons of priests illegitimate (only sons since lowly daughters could inherit anyway in society).

In 1022 Pope Benedict VIII banned marriages and mistresses for priests and in 1139 Pope Innocent II voided all marriages of priests and all new priests had to divorce their wives. This had nothing to do with morality, multiple women for males had long been the norm since before biblical times, but it was about MONEY! In biblical times many wives, concubines and breeders was common and never spoken against other than by Paul to the Elders of Timothy and Titus. In the Tanakh, Jewish priests suggest 4 wives was probably about the right number.

The whole celibacy nonsense was also the result of middle age gnostic influences that taught that the body was dirty and not spiritual and to be more spiritual you had to avoid natural sexuality.

http://www.patriarchywebsite.com/monogamy/mono-history.htm

This will really piss some prudes and wankers off. Good.

The Virtues of Promiscuity

By Sally Lehrman, AlterNet

Posted on July 22, 2002

"Slutty" behavior is good for the species. That is the conclusion of a new wave of research on the evolutionary drives behind sexuality and parenting.

Women everywhere have been selflessly engaging in trysts outside of matrimony. And they have been doing it for a good long time and for excellent reasons. Anthropologists say female promiscuity binds communities closer together and improves the gene pool...

In other words, the much-touted evolutionary bargain of female fidelity for food -- trotted out by evolutionary psychologists with maddening regularity -- just doesn't hold up...

http://www.alternet.org/story/13648/

HYPOCRITE, n.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises.

You are all hypocrites and as bad as the religious right. Spitzer is the lesser hypocrite compared with most of those condemning him. He never pretended to bhe "Mr. Morality". One of his notable cases was going after an "abortion clinic" that was a religious right "switch and bait". The young women who went there were counseled against having an abortion. Hardly "Mr. Morality". Shapiro is the worst of the bunch. No wonder the right wanted to bring Spitzer down, and those of you condemning him that profess to be sympathetic towards liberal progessive politics are nothing more than useful idiots and willing dupes, like Shapiro.

The myth of monogamy

According to studies of the animal world, most of us are naturally inclined to "cheat" or at least have more than one mate in a lifetime.

http://archive.salon.com/sex/feature/2001/01/23/monogamy/index.html

Aphrodisiac of power

Jesse Jackson joins the club of powerful men whose private transgressions are inevitably exposed -- but at least he handles it with a little class.

By Joan Walsh

http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/01/19/scandal/index.html

legalize it?

If so many politicians have sex with prostitutes, how come they haven't legalized it? It's obvious they have the power to do so, and they indulge in the services. What irks me is the hypocrisy, they say it's bad and denounce it, but they go right out there and do it. We need to be a more honest society. I really wasn't surprised by this at all by this situation, I guess I'm just another cynical Gen-X-er. Honest Politician is a contradiction in terms, but I don't think it has to be.

...perhaps the reason they keep prostitution illegal is to oust each other....

-- jennalex

In fact, it is decriminalized for most of them. I do not believe Spitzer would ever have been involved in a prosecution like this. We need to find out the particulars of these "sex ring" case he is supposed to have been involved with. I suspect they involved coercion and forced slavery of illegals or RICO cases. Prostitution in the upper classes is usually given a pass with a "wink and a nod". The law goes after the poorer classes. The streetwalkers, not the courtesans and concubines of the wealthy and powerful. You people are being duped so incredibly easily.

L.W.M. - Here's a Link for You

Although this link is not directly related to Zzigurrat's assertions, it does demonstrate the ruthlessnes that Zzigurrat pointed out.

I remember when Ken Starr investigate bill clintons "private sex life". Starr was widely criticized by the left. I don't recall any liberal suggesting that Starr's behavior is something you want from a lawyer.

Spit-lizard did the same thing to Dick Grasso.

Good riddance spitty.

If you read the Post you are watching Fox News in print. You are by definition an ill-informed and misinformed idiot, like Zzigurrat.

I guess you will love to see what the Feds do to Elliot then. The idea that they are trying to build this into a major crime is absurd.

-- Zzigurrat

Nothing. He'll step down. That's all they wanted. You people going on about the Mann act are laughable.

The United States White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 prohibited white slavery. It also banned the interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes.” Its primary stated intent was to address prostitution, immorality, and human trafficking. The act is better known as the Mann Act, after James Robert Mann, an American lawmaker.

According to historian Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's "racially skewed enforcement of the Mann Act was just one chapter in the history of Jim Crow"[1], the system of primarily state laws in the U.S. that enforced discrimination against African-Americans...

Read all about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act

Don't any of you lazy people do any research?

Some of the clowns here are Bush kissers. The rest of you liberals had better wake up or you'll be right back where you were in 2001 and 2004.