I guess Ben Franklin was just a “smirking wingman” and had arrested development and was a pu**y hound with no respect for himself or others when he gave this advice to a young man of his acquaintance.....
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/51-fra.html
As to Franklin, I wouldn’t be the first to label him a hypocrite and whore master.