Congressional Nooky

September, 1976

No doubt about it: Politics makes strange bed partners. I read with interest a recent front-page story that claimed a House committee chairman had asked a clerk to submit to bondage and discipline. From the tone of the article, you would have thought the guy was the Beast of Nanking or the Madman of My Lai. Weird? Kinky? Depraved? Not really. Some of my best friends are strange bedpersons. The old goat had probably read Alex Comfort's Joy of Sex and wanted to try a little amateur knot tying. The...