text: Because these representatives and non-representatives have serious problems with sex.  Of course, the fact is when Republicans cheat or get divorced, all of a sudden the issue becomes personal privacy and the debate switches to, "we have no right to look into their lives."  Never mind that Newt Gingrich (Former Speaker of the House during Clintons years) is on wife number 3, yet no one brings that up.  It's because of their religious upbringing that is so conservative and restricted that these people have such reactions to sex.