Sex Watch: NJ Councilman’s 20 Year Dry Spell, And Other Absurd Sex Scandal Headlines

Last week Eugene Robinson, a local New Jersey Councilman, seized national attention after falling victim to a prostitution blackmail scandal, testified in court that he hadn't had sex in 20 years. Despite the fact that the whole thing was a conspiracy (unbeknownst to Robinson, the woman he was fooling around with was a prostitute hired by political enemies taping the whole thing so they could later blackmail him), the media circus has unsurprisingly been focused around his no-action-since-'89 claim. Even the AP couldn't resist using the money quote in the lede of the story, before revealing the blackmail scheme: ''I was so surprised,'' he testified Wednesday in an Atlantic County courtroom. ''I, um, hadn't really had any sexual activity since '89. I thought that, naively, we were going to just pet.'' Since the trial, Robinson seems not only to have lost his political career, but his also, it would seem, his mind: HuffPo reports that he's not only stepping down when his term ends in December, but the "67-year-old now lives in a nursing home, uses a wheelchair, takes eight prescription drugs a day and has missed months of council meetings." The sudden downfall of Robinson's career at the hands of his libido (no pun intended!), brought to mind all the other politicians who have suffered a similar fate . Behold, a catalog of the most awesome most absurd ways the most lustful lads have been captured in the media: >>>NEXT: The Ethics of John Ensign 1. John Ensign Ummm.. what? This CNN Political Ticker headline seems like some kind of joke, but apparently Senator John Ensign of Nevada doesn't think it was at all ethically sketchy to have an affair with his campaign treasurer, Cindy Hampton, and then hire her unemployed husband as a political consultant as some sort of consolation. (Oh, and don't forget the $96,000 check Ensign's father wrote to the Hampton family) >>>NEXT: Don't Cry For Mark Sanford OR Argentina 2. Mark Sanford It was the summer of love this year for South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and his Argentinean mistress. Like our buddy John Ensign, Sanford was once labeled a Republican presidential hopeful for 2012, Sanford fudged his chances when he disappeared to Buenos Aires without telling anyone, and then had to hold an embarrassing press conference to explain himself. The blogs circulated this amusing Fox News screenshot that showed the 'fair and balanced' network labeling Sanford with a big fat (D) when he was actually a big horny (R). >>>NEXT: Spitzer! But I Didn't Even Know Her! 3. Eliot Spitzer The New York Post always manages to keep it simple, concise, and most of all classy. Spitzer's face says it all - he looks just as dumbfounded as we all were when we found out about the thousands of dollars he was spending on a certain guilty pleasure named 'Kristen'. The silly cover is topped off with a 'HO NO!' blurb that helped make the whole hookergate saga into the big joke that it became. But it looks like the laughs have subsided now that over a year has passed since Spitzer resigned. And we have a feeling that he's making a comeback, one TV appearance at a time... >>>NEXT: I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman! 4. Bill Clinton British people are so clever. This article from The Times recounts how the most notorious Presidential scandal of our time unfolded - ten years later, the media can still find some sort of dirty play on words when talking about Clinton. >>>NEXT: Mark Foley Learns The Dangers Of Sexting 5. Mark Foley You gotta wonder if they do it on purpose. Probably not, but here's Fox News again mislabeling a disgraced (R)epublican as a (D)emocrat. Mark Foley had perhaps one of the more embarrassing political demises of all time when transcripts of his creepy IMs with an underage page became public. Even more awkward? The fact that Florida police officials were looking into prosecuting him under the same laws he helped legislate. >>>NEXT: McGreevey Comes Out Of The Closet, And His Office 6. Jim McGreevey When Jim McGreevey came out as a "gay American" and forced his heartbroken wife to write a book and make an Oprah appearance, his resignation turned into a fiasco of he-said, she-said claims. Everyone took the bait and paraded the salacious accusations in their headlines, and the AP was no exception. >>>NEXT: John Edwards Is Apparently A Dave Matthews Fan 7. John Edwards A tidbit about John Edwards' baby daddy drama that Gawker just couldn't ignore? The random role of Dave Matthews. Even The New York Times couldn't resist mentioning the alleged fact that Edwards promised the alleged baby mama, Rielle Hunter, that "he would marry her in a rooftop ceremony in New York with an appearance by the Dave Matthews Band."

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Sex Watch: NJ Councilman’s 20 Year Dry Spell, And Other Absurd Sex Scandal Headlines

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