They have been going on for a long time.

What is not acceptable is telling people outside the Beltway about these parties.

Madison Cawthorn broke this rule and he paid the price for it.

The powerful people have been at this as long as there have been powerful people.
Hastert was following the path carved many decades past. If not centuries.just one of very very few that paid a price.
The real “Hastert rule”, keep it behind closed doors.

Many of these men are away from their wives and families.

They have girlfriends, hookers, booze, drugs to occupy their time.

Now that we have women members of congress, they seem to have joined the crowd.
We even see them having sex and high as kite in public. They don't even bother to hide it.

And we hear long time stories about the famous Secret Service hooker and booze parties, while on duty,
protecting the president.

Jeffrey Epstein's client list famously includes clients from the highest levels of power around the world.
All totally protected and immune from prosecution. The secrets of the rich, famous, powerful are tightly guarded.