Towards the end of the book, a senator character reveals that, prior to the events of the book, when he was an intern for an attorney general, the attorney general would offer mentorship and connections to interns if they would "just get a drink with him after work." There was "a strong implication that 'no' was unacceptable." Most of the people the attorney general targeted were young women, but the senator, then a young man, was also targeted. The senator recalls how the attorney general got him very drunk. It is heavily implied that the attorney general would have raped him if he had not gotten away. The attorney general threatened to reveal personal and family secrets if he ever told anyone what had happened. Over the course of this book, the attorney general becomes a senator and runs for president. He vows that as president, he would start a "Young Congress program." The senator who was his intern strongly believes that this presidential candidate would use such a program to continue targeting and raping young people, so he intervenes. Aside from this plot point, there are several allusions to in-breeding, specifically cousin marriages, in the history of the British royal family. These allusions are mostly played for laughs. One of the romantic leads mentions a time when he tried to defend his sister against a stranger who had touched her inappropriately in public. The two romantic leads often have sex while very drunk. This is not ever presented as a problem in the book. When the sexual relationship of the romantic leads is publicly revealed, the grandmother of one of the leads insist that he deny that he is gay, saying, "I can't imagine people would be as eager to welcome you into children's hospitals" where he had been volunteering prior. She is implying that others will assume he is a pedophile, when that is not the case.