The Atlantic Takes on Politicians' Sex Lives

The Atlantic‘s October issue is hot on the newsstands this week. Get past the cover story — the shame of scandal-torn college sports — and you have another kind of examination of shame. This story takes a deep, historical look at “Sex and the Married Politician.”

David Greenberg writes about the changing tide of political sex scandal coverage, pointing out that in the Gilded Age, tawdry stories about politicians were naturally off limits. Not so anymore.

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