Now by Italian law Noemi is not- and was not- jail bait, such as in the Polanski case, even though it was suspected at some point. Consensual sex starts at sixteen here, rather than the U.S. eighteen. Further consensual sex between minors or between youngsters within a close age group is not considered criminal.

I recall off hand two studies on the relation between power and sex: Reich's Mass Psychology of Fascism and Gadda's Eros e Priapo. Gadda takes his libel further in that he perceives the primacy of priapism as a national zeitgeist as a disaster for the state in that it negates logos.

As for coherence, honesty and transparency in all aspects of political and institutional engagement, it's a matter of plain efficacity and open contract with the citizenry.

In the present Italian experiment, power is distributed through subservience, sex, falsehood and obscurity, rather than merit. It is forcibly incompetent. Italy is presently erected on a totemic partouze reduced to a gaggle of sycophants placed in key positions and tantalized with stereotyped female bodies, all at the service of a furybound Pornarchos.