Newt Gingrich reportedly offered his second wife Marianne two choices: an open marriage or a divorce, when he revealed to her he was having an affair with his now-wife, Callista Bisek (that plastic-haired blonde you always see with him on the campaign trail).
As an atheist, it's nice to know that I'm less likely to ever become president than a devout Christian who's cheated on his wife with everything that moves. Hypocrites much? Even as an atheist, I know the Ten Commandments better than some conservative folks.
In her first televised interview, Gloria Cain said her husband would need a "split personality" to do the things described in the sexual-harassment allegations against him.
Oh, Herman Cain, you had this coming. Even if it is a spoof.
As ridiculous as the numerous recent sex scandals are, we can hope there are also some big lessons that have come out of them—not only for the offenders themselves but for the general public as well. In fact, The Frisky lists out a whopping 45 things they've learned from a few recent male adulterers (Weiner, Schwarzenegger, Woods, James, Spitzer and Edwards). The list includes lessons about how to "properly" sext like: make sure to keep your face outside the shot when taking naughty pics and, of course, always use correct grammar (you don't want to seem like a sleaze and an idiot). Another gem is: being involved in a major sex scandal can land you a gig on CNN and, perhaps, even an advice column. However, the one lesson I definitely can't agree with is, "That Arnold's last name isn’t actually impossible to spell." I promise you, I will never get it down.
Although both political parties have had their fair share of sex scandals over the years, one party in particular seems to have had the overall worst ones. Now how do you define "worst" exactly? Well, The Frisky spells—or counts—it out for us with a scorecard, listing 10 Democrats and 10 Republicans involved in some of the biggest, most recent sex scandals.
Leave it to The Daily Beast to crunch the numbers on something as salacious as political scandals. We're sure they had a ball doing hardcore data analysis on the last 20 years of cigars, wide stances and love children with housekeepers. Of course, at the end of the day, what we really want to know is which party has been involved in more sex scandals (we'll spoil it for you: the Republicans). We won't spoil the rest of the lurid details.
Somewhere in a safe deposit box lies evidence* that former Vice-President Al Gore is a "crazed sex poodle." The items? A chocolate bar with his fingerprints and a pair of pants with his, uh, man fluid. (Purportedly) Ahh, the separation from Tipper is now making sense: That sex scandal that The National Enquirer first reported? Well, the Gore team isn't denying it. And my oh my are the details juicy... and sloppy... and chocolate-y.
Amongst the many goodies discovered within Ted Kennedy's FBI file is a 1965 memo about a rich New York City divorcée who had "considerable information about sex parties" involving the Kennedy brothers, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, and Sammy Davis Jr.
Now we know why Silda Spitzer stood by her man Eliot: she believed that her husband's hooker-banging was her fault. "The wife is supposed to take care of the sex. This is my failing,'' she is quoted as saying in Peter Elkind's new book The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer. "I wasn't adequate." Le sigh. Guess a J.D. from Harvard Law isn't enough to purge a victim's guilt for the perpetrator's crime. But hold on for a second. What responsibility does the wife bear for her husband's infidelities? (Or a husband for his wife's?) The "politically correct" answer would be "zero," but is it the truth?
The John Edwards sex tape and its duplications have been turned over to court, presumably in safer hands than, say, those of Andrew Young — the money/fame-hungry embittered former aid or truth-speaker to power, your call — or so you would think! Not so, as The Daily Beast can now describe who was doing what to whom where, when and how based on accounts from multiple people who have viewed it. According to one viewer with a "medical background," the size and shape of Rielle Hunter's nipples and belly "place the tape's filming somewhere around September or October of 2007, smack in the middle of Edwards campaign for the presidency."
