INDIANAPOLIS – Politicians sneaking around on their significant others is nothing new. Democracy itself is a lot younger than the tradition of powerful people keeping lovers on the side, be they unpaid concubines, call girls, rent boys, or some manner of poorly disguised “personal advisers” and “travelling companions.”

Long before Pompey freaked out over Julius Caesar playing hide the papyrus scroll with Mrs. Pompey, infidelity had become commonplace among the political elite. The only real difference between then and now is the existence of social media — a platform that has rendered significantly more likely the chance any given politician’s extramarital dalliances will see the light of day.

One would like to think other politicians might have learned something from the social media misadventures of Anthony “Carlos Danger” Wiener, but the news this week makes it very clear at least one politician has completely missed the lesson in Wiener’s negative example.

In fact, not only did Indiana State Rep. Justin Moed [D-Indianapolis] fail to learn from Wiener’s career-debilitating sexting scandal, but he also managed to get himself in trouble with one of the very same women with whom Señor Danger was caught sexting.

Yes, it’s true: the Curse of Sydney Leathers strikes again.

Now he has been caught, naturally Moed has trotted out the obligatory, self-flagellating apology.

“I am truly sorry I have hurt the ones I love most with my poor judgment,” Moed, aka “Bitch Boy,” said in a statement. “I am committed to rebuilding trust with my family and my community. This is a private matter, and I ask for it to be treated as such. I apologize to my constituents and to everyone I have let down.”

Moed is — or at least was — engaged to be married later this year.

Making matters worse, Moed can’t even claim he was unaware he was playing with fire. Not only was he well aware of Wiener’s downfall, he also knew the woman at the center of it was the person with whom he was sexting.

“Lol…. well the Wiener thing got you a lot of attention probably good and bad” read one of Rep. Bitch Boy’s text messages. “Oh well, life moves on and we learn from our experiences,” he added in response to Leathers’ reply of “Mostly bad lol.”

Yes, life moves on and we learn from our experiences — but we do not learn from Anthony Wiener’s experiences, evidently.

Leathers said she connected with Moed when he responded to a post in which she said she was looking for a submissive to “financially dominate.” This sounds a bit like the sort of relationship one has with a sadistic mortgage broker, not a Twitter bimbo, but to each his own.

“I’ve never paid for sex,” reads another of Moed’s texts. “I’m a pretty good looking guy. People say I have a charm and naughty intrigue about me.”

That’s great, Justin — except now people are more likely to say you have a charming, brainless intrigue about you. (They might also suggest you pull up your fucking underpants for Christ’s sake, but that’s another story.)

As for this being a “private matter” as Moed said in his statement, the ship sailed on that possibility long ago — roughly around the time Leathers first received a package from Amazon that included a receipt with Bitch Boy’s real name on it, I’d wager.

Whatever sort of relationship Moed hoped to have with Leathers, and whatever discretion he somehow expected from her, the guy had to be an utter moron to think their cybersex would remain on the down-low. True to form, Leathers has been anything but silent about Moed.

“This guy is into some really freaky stuff,” Leathers told the New York Post’s PageSix.com. “He liked the idea of buying me a strap-on to use on him. He wanted to be forced to wear a French maid outfit and clean my house while I degraded him. He wanted to be tied up and left in a closet to watch me have sex with my boyfriend.”

Leathers also said she was disappointed to learn Bitch Boy is a Democrat: “I’m really sad. I was really hoping it was a Republican.”

Obviously, this girl is pure class, but this still doesn’t explain Moed’s inability to see how sexting with her inevitably would end badly.

Did Moed want to be caught? Given his alleged extreme submissiveness, this seems a distinct possibility. Perhaps he detests being an elected official but can’t quite bring himself to quit and change careers of his own accord, or maybe what he really wanted was to be publicly humiliated — a figurative de-pantsing to pair with the bare butt pics he sent to Leathers.

No matter how you slice it, in addition to his Bitch Boy screen name, Justin Moed now has earned himself an even more degrading moniker: Carlos Danger Jr.