Why does wife Anne Sinclair put up with DSK? How French women think.
Too Proud to Be Jealous
You can’t begin to understand Anne Sinclair unless you understand that France is a highly sexualized society, where even rejection has its own rules and rituals. Young women know how to play the game of what is called “seduction”; journalists sleep with important men because it’s fun, they say, and keeps the sources happy. “I’d have done him,” more than one woman says—“what a lark.” Girls know how to deflect an advance with a joke or a metaphorical slap. The “droit de cuissage," or right to deflower any maiden, was a prerogative of men in power, and still is. The tumbling of servants has its own term: “les amours ancillaires.” The events in Room 2806 provoked the same hilarity as the plays of Feydeau, in which the master does the maid between doorways while the mistress awaits in one room and the wife in another.
In a less sophisticated setting, only the man has fun: secretaries service the boss in factories and gas stations to keep their jobs. What is delightful Feydeau to those with the references is grim reality without the comforts of culture.
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it's not about France. It's about politicians and the fact that they simply often have lovers. It's a fact. DSK and Anne Sinclair are the Clintons of France. Saying that this is all about French society is incorrect.