You quote Tax-chick (”Oh, please. If they weren’t dead, at any age, they were getting busy”), and quote Franklin’s somewhat ribald but amusing work (which many of us will recall from literature classes) — Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress (1745). https://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/51-fra.html
Jefferson, though, was a more reserved person than Franklin, and his conduct reflected that. In response to attacks on his conduct, such as the scurrilous imputations of Callender (which included the Hemings allegations) and to the Federalist campaign attacks, Jefferson wrote the following [spelling of the time not edited], “The inclosed copy of a letter to mr Lincoln will so fully explain it’s own object, that I need say nothing in that way. I communicate it to particular friends because I wish to stand with them on the ground of truth, neither better nor worse than that makes me. you will percieve that I plead guilty to one of their charges, that when young & single I offered love to a handsome lady [believed to be Betsy Walker — when confronted about it a decade later by her husband, Jefferson admitted making improper advances and apologized]. I acknolege it’s incorrectness; it is the only one, founded in truth among all their allegations against me.” [Letter to Rober Smith, Secretary of the Navy, July 1, 1805 http://archive.li/muNfD
So writing at the age of 62, Jefferson acknowledges only one improper affair, and that committed in his youth. Not everyone had the temperament and sexual proclivities of Franklin.
:-)
-PJ