Celebrity sex, from Kennedy to Li Yundi, is always a strange synthesis of contradictions, including repression and liberation, conflicts of power and image, and the truth behind the official discourse, which are constantly explored by historians.
A famous example in American history is Kennedy's love affair with star Marilyn Monroe. They were regarded as the best matching partners in Western society at that time, but they could only meet vaguely in various impossible spaces and times. The veteran reporters who ran the White House news at that time were more or less aware of these scandals. But in the atmosphere of the sixties, they chose to "hide it for His Holiness" and not to expose it, but instead had a certain voyeuristic excitement.
This is also a peculiar psychological state, reflecting the different values of different eras, and of course, the different characteristics of different news carriers. Some veteran American newspapermen recall that many journalists at that time had a kind of admiration for the youngest president in history, and even if they knew his scandals, they could not bear to destroy the image of the idol. But if it is today, it may be "second speed" transmission, and the ability to draw shapes and sounds is exhausted.
Marilyn Monroe's affection for Kennedy was reflected in one of her public parties, she publicly celebrated Kennedy's birthday, with a sexy voice, sang a song "Mr. President, Happy Birthday", and the president also took the stage to respond, the language was extremely ambiguous, in the occasion of thousands of people, it was actually an open flirtation.
Of course, Kennedy was not a prostitute, but Marilyn Monroe's worship of power, which is what Kissinger said: "Power is the best medicine", and in the face of power, it becomes more exciting.
President Trump, who has just stepped down, is not only a secret affair, but also a veteran of the wind and moon place, according to the US press investigation report, although Trump has been married several times, but he has long liked to ask for flowers and willows, and some sex workers who have been patronized by him have later come forward to testify, but Trump has denied it. Since there is no definite physical evidence, it is also the believer who believes, and the unbeliever who does not believe.
The most famous example of a celebrity about prostitutes in the West is the British star Hugh Gran, who was caught by los Angeles police in 1995 with a street prostitute Brown in a "car tremor" and charged with indecent acts in public places. His past image was subverted overnight, and he was pointed out by thousands of people, but he was not afraid of the negative criticism of public opinion, and continued to improve in his acting career, and finally walked out of the shadow of this dramatic street "buying spring".
Every era and every space has a different definition of "buying spring". Japanese politics has long been popular to say that what is below the navel is not politics, indicating that the behavior of politicians in the wind and moon place should not be put on the table, but in today's era of social media development, politicians will be discredited and fall from the altar of power.
In China's modern history, celebrities and prostitutes have not affected their historical status in the slightest. The most famous of these is the liberal master Hu Shi, who blew himself up in his diary and became a celebrity anecdote. But the history of Chinese thought does not mention this paragraph much about him. This is the benevolence of history, but it also implies the cruelty of the future, because in the Internet age, this is the target of electronic "ink torture", and it is also the moment when history will eventually be subverted.