MEN DON'T LEARN
Most men do not want to learn from either their past mistakes, or from the mistakes of other men. Maybe, we must just blame this on the biblical Adam, who, according to the Holy Bible, became the very first person to throw caution by the wind and disobeyed God's instructions, just to enjoy the joys of the flesh.
Sex and lust have taken down many powerful men, including church bishops, priests, state presidents, prime ministers, school principals, academics, judicial officers, teachers, bankers, lawyers, financial wizards, and sportspeople. The only position not yet directly affected is that of the Pope; let us hope this will not happen in my lifetime.
Some pseudo "medical experts" assert men are simply physiologically conditioned that way; when the blood pumps stronger to the Southern parts (the reproductive organs) of their bodies, there is less or no blood which flows to their Northern parts (the brain). Whatever the true medical facts are on this matter, the truth remains that most men stop thinking rationally once their reproductive organs start getting excited.
Well, you all know I am about to move to the topical Zwelinzima Vavi sexual matter. It is not for us to pronounce (yet) on who the guilty party is on this matter. What we all know, which Vavi has already admitted through the social networks, is that he had sex with a married colleague. This is not just about religious fanaticism or platitudes that people must not have sex outside the wedlock; our secular country is more lax about that.
The non-religious moral issue here is that Vavi creates a picture of himself as a person who has a sharpened appetite for married women; especially taking into consideration that his current wife was also married to someone else when he started having an affair with her, and it is public knowledge that her ex-husband has publicly blamed Vavi for the breakdown of that marriage. This latest scandal will also not go down well with the conservative religious lobby who enjoyed citing him (Vavi) as one of the very few leaders with "moral fibre" within the ANC-SACP-COSATU tripartite alliance.