Adultery A New Furor Over an Old Sin

摘要

It was a familiar wash-ington story, of a powerful man brought down by a woman. But although human nature doesn't change very quickly, even in Washington, society does, sometimes in ways that can surprise even the best pollsters. When political consultant Dick Mor- ris fell last month to a tabloid story about his yearlong affair with $200-an-hour call girl Sherry Rowlands, the crash shook the capital's notion of what constitutes a proper sex scandal, and shed new light on America's changing attitudes toward adultery in the not-so-naughty '90s.