“Make me pleasure.”

That Facebook message was directed at Bill Kintner, a 55-year-old Nebraska state senator, while the politician was in Boston for a conference last July. In his hotel room, Kintner had started chatting online—using a state-supplied computer—with a woman who went by “Vinciane Diedeort.” Her English was not idiomatic, but she looked good. And she wanted Kintner to masturbate with her on Skype.

“I don’t want to sneak behind my wife’s back,” he wrote. “It’s not about you, it is about me. You are smoking hot.”