I have been an established practitioner in Center City Philadelphia for going on 43 years. During that time I’ve had the fortune and misfortune to be acquainted with literally tens of thousands of people. The vast number of these individuals are and were solid citizens as we used to call them in the old days. However, I have been privy to, and witnessed an extremely frightening and disturbed group of individuals who participated in behaviors which sink beneath the term “reprehensible“.
I will not detail them here, but suffice it to say that the average person cannot begin to conceive of the nature of these peoples’ actions, the reprehensibility of their immorality, the victimization of minors, women, men, and some of these are people who are depending upon them for their income and possibly their survival and I mean the latter quite literally. Now I am not referring simply to seduction of office mates, offputting commentary or behaviors, bad jokes told in the workplace, touchy-feely individuals, or other typical offenses often detailed in the media and often ascribed to poor judgment or stupid behavior. I am referring to behaviors participated in by both genders, which when described are so awful that visions of them in my brain have haunted me for decades in some cases. I wish I could detail these, But quite frankly doing so would probably violate the DU rules and sicken many of the readers.
So when I hear the congressman has been traveling with a minor, paying for sex, gifting people for favors, forming partnerships with other individuals to continue in this illegal, immoral, narcissistic, and inappropriate behavior, I am not surprised, certainly not shocked, but my question is what extreme perversities are being covered up in so many venues?
Most of whom I was associated professionally have retired or passed away, and I will let you in on a little secret. When I first opened my practice I was a single fellow dating one woman for a great length of time who was not in the city but in the suburbs. I was approached on numerous occasions by practitioners and patients in my building and elsewhere who wanted to know what my proclivities were, and those of my girlfriend at the time, testing me to see if I would be interested in participating in any of their groups. Now I found out later, after I had declined, that some of these groups were like a discount Eyes Wide Shut-type series of situations. The actions and what even I would call perversities, and I’m a pretty open guy, were so extreme in some cases from what I heard that people would have to be hospitalized or take long vacations in order to recover physically and mentally. Now you may wonder how I know this, and so I will confess to you that two of my closest associates had psychiatric breaks and poured out their souls to me independently, interestingly corroborating each other‘s stories. Suffice it to say that I would never repeat these or write a book about them because I would be marked for vengeance by this whole undercover group, just as Tom Cruise’s character was in the movie.
I posted this today because I feel as though we are looking through rose colored glasses and don’t necessarily understand the depths to with these people can plumb. I will leave you with this: when I was an adolescent, I returned home from school one day and my father happen to be visiting us, since my parents were separated, and I expressed shock at something which it happened at school. My father said to me you should never be shocked, remember, there are people who screw chickens.
What I hadn’t realized at the time was that that would be the least of it.
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