Politicians and the porn they write

Last week Slate ran a interesting quiz asking readers to match cringe-worthy sex scenes with the politician-novelists who wrote them.

Barbara Boxer, Jimmy Carter, Lynne Cheney, Newt Gingrich, and Kenneth Starr are among the authors who have their handicraft spotlighted.

Among the novel passages quoted:

"She romped on top of Simolzak's huge frame, straddling him with her hands on his chest, her back arched and her breasts flailing wildly in the air. Her back was to him and her long hair swung from side to side as if accentuating the abandonment of her screams."

"I set the edge of my teeth halfway up her breast, just at the point of tension but not, so far as I could tell, of pain. This was the sweetest flesh I had ever tasted, including fish and fowl."

Click here to take the quiz.

--Marshal Zeringue