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Letter: Sex god Clinton

John Field
Friday 25 September 1998 23:02 BST
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Sir: Charles James Fox, suspected of complicity in London riots in the 1780s, considered it an entirely appropriate defence to claim that he was in bed with his mistress at the time. Sexual promiscuity is the norm rather than the exception when we view the lives of eminent politicians in the last 200 years. Is it not time to acknowledge that the appetite for power and the appetite for sex are intimately related.

JOHN FIELD

Alnwick, Northumberland

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