Mark Foley

Representative Foley's relations with a page is one of those icky stories which is still fascinating. Something like staring a snake in the eye. For some articles on how to get beyond equating pedophilia with homosexuality, Foley was identified as a straight man, there's some good reading at Beyond Homophobia. For the contradictions in law that would make, in many states, sex with a sixteen year old legal, but the e-mails illegal look to Unclaimed Territory by Glenn Greenwald.