More Inspiration Not to Eat: Reports that John Bolton is a Devotee of "Kink"

Hmmmm, so much for eating tonight after reading this, from Raw Story:

Corroborated allegations that Mr. Bolton’s first wife, Christina Bolton, was forced to engage in group sex have not been refuted by the State Department despite inquires posed by Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt concerning the allegations. Mr. Flynt has obtained information from numerous sources that Mr. Bolton participated in paid visits to Plato’s Retreat, the popular swingers club that operated in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

“The first Mrs. Bolton’s conduct raises the presumption that she fled out of fear for her safety or, at a minimum, it demonstrates that Mr. Bolton’s established inability to communicate or work respectfully with others extended to his intimate family relations,” said Mr. Flynt. “The court records alone provide sufficient basis for further investigation of nominee Bolton by the Senate.” These court records are enclosed here as an attachment. Mr. Flynt continued, “The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations must be free of any potential source of disrepute or blackmail.”

Mr. Flynt has contacted the State Department asking that they confirm or deny the allegations of Mr. Bolton’s prior conduct concerning his wife and the alleged paid visits to Plato’s Retreat. He has also called upon the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to conduct an inquiry into the very serious evidence concerning his first wife’s fear of him.

When I was still very young, you'd hear this really wild stories about Plato's Retreat, making it sound like a much racier Sodom and Gomorrah.

But several years ago, I happened to meet someone who worked at Plato's before it closed. Her job there was sort of a liaison for "important" people, she said. She claims the place was more reputation and imagination than anything else. Even the amount of drug use there, she said, was highly over-rated. In other words, it was the club scene in NY in the late '70s.

I went with someone to Studio 54 in the late 1970s when I wasn't out of college yet and, since I wasn't terribly interested in cocaine or Quaaludes, the experience was lost on me. The same with Elaine's. See what you miss out on by being straight?

On the Bolton situation, however, I'm much more concerned with more of this stuff that goes against the policy of not having anyone in a sensitive position who is open to blackmail. Bolton has many skeletons even without these reported sexual peccadilloes; he seems vulnerable in a way that would not suit us.