Republican Sexual Misconduct Scandals

Engaged in a sexual fetish called "cranking" where he broke into vehicles, disconnected the spark plug wires and turned on the ignition while masturbating of which he was caught in the act four times in a 9-month period

Coerced an assistant who was decades younger than him into having sex over a yearslong period by threatening to withhold her paycheck if she ever refused his advances, subjected her to a "steady stream of racially and sexually offensive comments" and fired her when she eventually stood up to him while also being married

Paid $300 to have sex with a 16-year-old girl who told him she was a virgin and smothered her with his body weight after she tried to push him off of her

Locked a female staffer in his office and unsuccessfully tried to get her to have sex with him while also being married with two children

Molested and sexually abused a 10-year-old boy over a period of three years while propagating "family values" as a bedrock principal of his political philosophy at the same time

Gave his real name when he visited a brothel presumably to have sex with a prostitute while also being married with a young child and was caught when police raided the establishment and came across his name resulting in his immediate resignation

Paid a male prostitute from an escort website $500 to have sex while also being married with two children

Promised to pay a young man he found on a gay Craigslist page up to $140 when they rendezvoused at a local luxury hotel presumably to have sex after exchanging numerous sexually charged communications about the type of encounter he hoped to have while also being a married and virulently anti-LGBTQ rights politician who routinely espoused traditional family values

Frequently paid to have sex with a stripper he also snorted cocaine and abused prescription opioids with who happened to be a confidential informant while also being married

Sent multiple unsolicited pictures of his penis including one that reportedly showed him masturbating to Jet's reporter Jenn Sterger and often left long voicemails expressing his desire for her in explicit terms even after she turned him down while also being married

Hired a twenty-year-old male to touch his genitals and give him daily nude massages throughout a European vacation after finding him on the "rent boy" escort website while also being a married pastor who publicly espoused virulently anti-gay sentiments

Got naked with a 15-year-old girl in a hot tub when he was in his late twenties and later paid her $150,000 to keep quiet when he ran for US Congress

Grabbed his personal secretary Donna Wilkerson's head and forced it down towards his groin, forcibly kissed her on the mouth after pinning her against his office door and subjected her to a myriad of other physical and emotional abuse over a seven-year period while also being married the entire time

Offered to perform oral sex on a random stranger who happened to be an undercover police officer in a public men's restroom for $20 mere months after he co-sponsored a bill that called for public sex offenses like this to be charged as a felony while also being married

Solicited a stranger for sex who happened to be an undercover police officer in a men's airport bathroom by using a code (tapping his foot several times and reaching under the stall divider) while also being a married father who was a leading member of the conservative "family values caucus"

Used a notorious DC escort service at least five times as a US Representative while still married to his wife Wendy Vitter and after having spent most of his political career touting the importance of traditional "family values"

Described in graphic detail felony sex acts he imagined subjecting a 3-year-old boy to in an online group chat which resulted in his expulsion from the sex offenders counseling program he was enrolled in for a previous offense involving an 11-year-old girl and also abused alcohol for several weeks in violation of his parole

Pleasured himself a mere 10 to 15 feet away from an unsuspecting woman he followed from the beach to the pool at a Florida resort

Paid to have sex with a male prostitute on a monthly basis over a three-year period after finding him through an ad on the website "Rentboy.com" while also being a married father of five who was a vocal opponent of gay rights

Had sexual relations with two former male pages and sent dozens of inappropriate and sexually suggestive emails and instant messages to underage male pages over a yearslong period while also having voted in favor of numerous pieces of anti-gay legislation throughout his time in Congress

Asked a 16-year-old male Congressional page to send him photographs of himself and inquired what he could buy him for his birthday over five emails that the page said "really freaked" him out and made him feel "sick"

Routinely got drunk and sent sexualized emails and chat messages to underage male Congressional pages over a multiyear period

Pulled his shorts down and exposed his penis to an 11-year-old girl who had come over to play with his new puppy after

Repeatedly raped and sexually violated a young girl over a ten-year period beginning when she was only six years old

Exposed his genitals to three underage girls in a hotel pool and hot tub