I wasn't trying to say his behaviour is acceptable. It seems he needs to work on his social interactions (most of us need to work on that, and we should all fight for better).

The only reason for this brouhaha is that the media has attacked him. He wrote that she was coerced. The media has said he said she was willing.

Now plenty of words are being used to picture him as immoral.

What seems weird is that Richard comes across to me as idealistically moral, almost religiously moral: with the misfortune to have a popular wave crashing into his philosophical castle.