[Vince Ferrer]

But I believe the common denominator, the proximate cause of the irrational behavior, is arrogance; the belief by some powerful men that they can get away with it. That the world is still their unchallenged domain, as it was years ago, when few people knew about a president bringing women to the White House to have sex, as John F. Kennedy did, or pressuring his secretary to yield to sexual advances, as was common. It is willful ignorance that the world has changed.

No, that's completely wrong (and typical feminist term paper fodder). The author is a woman though, so I will help her out and answer her question.

How else can we explain the endless parade of otherwise successful individuals, who by all appearances seem intelligent and competent, and yet risk destroying their careers and their personal lives over the chance to have a sexual escapade?

Easy answer. From an early age the one overriding question on men's mind is how to score with women. For many of us, becoming rich and/or powerful is one of those ways to get women. Many men don't go into politics for any goal to accomplish other than to become powerful and be able to pick up chicks.

So the answer to the question why would a man thow away his career trying to get women, is a puzzled, "Duh, that's what the career if for in the first place."

[central_va]

Easy answer. From an early age the one overriding question on men's mind is how to score with women. For many of us, becoming rich and/or powerful is one of those ways to get women. Many men don't go into politics for any goal to accomplish other than to become powerful and be able to pick up chicks. So the answer to the question why would a man thow away his career trying to get women, is a puzzled, "Duh, that's what the career if for in the first place."

31 posts before the correct answer. Men educate and learn a skill to get money. Why do they want money? So they can obtain power. Why do they want power? To get chicks.

Women, natural socialists eschew risk taking and could never understand men risking everything for sex....Viva la difference!

[Darren McCarty]

That reminds me of this quote from a movie.

In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

Tony Montana aka Al Pacino - Scarface.

[Isabel C.]

Easy answer. From an early age the one overriding question on men's mind is how to score with women. For many of us, becoming rich and/or powerful is one of those ways to get women. Many men don't go into politics for any goal to accomplish other than to become powerful and be able to pick up chicks.

In other words, men are stupid.

[Erasmus]

Part of a man’s energy and drive to succeed and gain wealth and power (whether through government or privately) comes from the same thing that powers his sex drive: testosterone.