Poor Richard

Arnold Schwarzenegger's preference for plainer women because they were more grateful is reminiscent of what another famous womanizer once said about older women: that they were preferable because they were more grateful for the attention. 

A few excerpts from Benjamin Franklin's  Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress:

My dear Friend,

[I]f you persist in thinking a Commerce with the [female] Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:

...Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility.

...Because thro' more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation.

...[C]overing all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.

Lastly, They are so grateful!!

Even Schwarzenegger never said that all women were the same in the dark, or that you might cover the top half of a woman with a basket (or even her head with a paper bag). So who's worse, Arnold or Ben? 

And just imagine how incorrigible Franklin would had been had he gone on steroids.

Had today's media been ascendant back then, Franklin would have been fired from his job as envoy to France due to his personal indiscretions. Had the New York Times had its way, Franklin's discovery of electricity would have probably been invalidated.

And Franklin wasn't the only Founding Father to have transgressed. If having an affair with a subordinate is considered abusive today, how abusive is it to have had an affair with one's slave, as Thomas Jefferson did?

Imagine what would have happened if those rascals had had access to campaign funds.

This blog is hardly the first place to point out that the Founding Fathers' behavior wouldn't have stood up to today's standards. But it is the first to proudly point out that given this unfortunate fact, there is only one moral course of action. 

We must repeal the Constitution now.