[In the new book, 'One Nation Under Sex' Larry Flynt & David
Eisenbach reveal the secret history of how politicians' lovers
affected policy, and why these stories are seldom told.] A
Scandalous History With the exception of a brief period of
détente during the first half of the twentieth century, sexual
misdoings have been fodder for public titillation since the
first political parties emerged (against the better judgment of
the founders) in the years following independence. If anything,
the game is considerably more civil these days. Contrary to the
liberty-loving, values-driven revolutionaries we've come to know
them as, it seems the founders of our nation were just as often
fornicating, backstabbing scoundrels who thought nothing of
promoting rumor and innuendo as a means of destroying rivals and
furthering their own political careers. While the founders
eschewed political parties, the early division between
federalists and advocates of states-rights represented by the
Democratic-Republican party birthed t