Maybe… having an exceptional intellect is helpful in life but those are different characteristics than values and more importantly, virtues that guide sound decision-making. My parents would have been horrified if their 20 something unmarried daughter hung out with a twice divorced man who ‘stayed over at her apartment’. Sure that was a different age…. but were they wrong?
That’s a good point, really. If a woman were with a twice-divorced man before the 1990s,... What about wealthy men? Or movie stars, both men and women, stalwarts of self-discipline and frugality? [Little irony there in that last phrase.]
Look at where we’re at today with questions of morality. Adultery as originally defined is normalized by courts, religious organizations and other institutions. Even the following is normalized, protected and favored in corporate, academic and government culture. Brando had many wives.
Richard Pryor slept with Marlon Brando, Pryor’s widow confirms
https://pagesix.com/2018/02/07/richard-pryor-slept-with-marlon-brando-his-widow-confirms/?_ga=2.92378325.977849414.1518093739-70926438.1517280535
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Brando#Personal_life