The high stress, high risk environment on Wall Street may lead many bankers to participate in risky sexual behaviour.
According to psychologists, "people in positions of power often feel as if they can perhaps get away with it. There is sometimes a sense of entitlement...
Mike Whitney asks: "What are the chances that Strauss-Kahn will get a fair trial now that he's been blasted as a serial sex offender in about 3,000 articles and in all the televised news reports?"
"Do you remember any Wall Street bankers being dragged off in handcuffs when they blew up the financial system and bilked people out of trillions of dollars?"
The answer to both questions is certainly a "no" (or a "non", if you're in France), but there is more to the connection between sex and Wall Street. Without commenting on the evidence in the Strauss-Kahn case - which has merely been asserted, not proven - I will expose a deeper context that is being largely ignored.
I call it the "testosterone factor" in The Crime of Our Time, my book about Wall Street.
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