CIA officers get around… a lot.
In fact, divorces and affairs were something of a rite of passage for the older generations.
The realities of the job line up perfectly to short-circuit your sex drive.
The work is dangerous, lonely, exciting, isolating, and highly illegal to talk about with anyone outside your immediate team.
But all of that could be changing after a few high-profile controversies.
- Former CIA Director David Petraeus's affair with his biographer.
- A caught-in-the-act-on-a-pool-table moment between a CIA training officer and his student.
- The recent sexual assault conviction of a rookie CIA intel officer.
More and more, the Agency is seeing calls to clean up its act.
They are being held to the moral and professional standards of the military and bureaucratic branches of the Federal government.
But I'm not sure that is a good thing.
The demands of covert intel ops are fundamentally different than anything else you can find in the government and private sectors.
From the beginning, CIA never cared if you were a philanderer… and for good reason.
The job expects you to lie, cheat, and steal… All of which would make Mother Theresa roll in her grave.
How can an Agency that operates outside the accepted norms of moral behavior be effective if it's held to normal moral standards?
Of course, all institutions – including CIA – should take steps to prevent internal abuse and actual harm.
But holding CIA and its personnel to the moral standards you expect in the safe streets of America defeats the purpose of the Agency in the first place.
Spying is a dirty job… and someone has to do it.
I'm not alone when I see this as evidence of the MASS confusion our culture has when it comes to sex.
From our education to our media, we are taught that sex is about morality, desire, and love.
But that is an sad myth that harms us all.
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