Through Petraeus sex scandal, Andrew Sullivan recalls his own humiliating past

Nov. 27, 2012 2:30pm Eddie Scarry

As with any sex scandal, questions about privacy rights have come up in the Petraeus sex scandal. In The Daily Beast, politics blogger Andrew Sullivan recalls his own episode of public shaming:

I have lived this – being humiliated and falsely accused of hypocrisy by the gay far left because I once tried (and failed) to find other HIV-positive guys to have sex with online when I was single. Since that searing experience – I was a pioneer target in Internet shaming and exposure – I’ve seen countless others go through the same thing, sometimes for reason, more often for no reason at all. …

The only way past this, alas, is through it. The more poor souls this humiliation happens to, the more used we become to the humiliation, the less potent it becomes.

Sullivan is both openly gay and HIV-positive.

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Oneirishman
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 9:31pm
I think he became desensitized too humiliation while mastering the art of speaking out of his azz in public.

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blackyb
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:14pm
Trying to normalize his situation like it is something while using the Petrayus sex scandal. These people are pathetically transparent in their efforts to portray these nasty sodomites as normal. They are not normal, and are products of sin to the next level. All of these people want to desensitize others to their adultries, sodomy and sins against their own flesh. They are all sickening and need to grow up.

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blackyb
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 7:59pm
Yes, they say misery loves company. NEWS FLASH! Your shame is still there, you just refuse to recognize it as that, however that does not mean no one else shares your blindness to your shame.

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