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Weinergate: Men Will Always Cheat

So what's the difference now? From Anthony Weiner to Eliot Spitzer, it's the public shaming on behalf of the women they've betrayed. Kay Hymowitz reports.

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Anthony Weiner has taken refuge in his Queens apartment and our long national nightmare is over. And so the question presents itself: Why, oh why, are Americans so obsessed with sex scandals? Is it because, as a lot of critics say, deep down we always have been and always will...

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