When Jerry Orbach died in 2004 after a decade-long battle with prostate cancer, he left behind Elaine, his wife of 25 years, who survived him until this past April. Recently, Simon & Schuster collected a slew of workaholic Jerry’s love letters...

As far as we were concerned, sending a letter to the president was like sending a letter to Santa Claus. Turns out, we were wrong. Of 65,000 paper letters and 100,000 emails a week plus faxes and calls he gets, Barack Obama reads 10 letters a day. And...

As Bill Maher points out, S.C. Governor Mark Sanford’s affair was really about love. Unlike someone like, say, Former Congressman Mark Foley whose emails were full of lines like, “I have totally stiff wood now.”

Don’t miss this Nerve essay, written by a longtime sex researcher, on 10 unusual and amusing fetishes. Republican Senator John Ensign’s handwritten letters to his mistress were revealed. Wonkette had this classic excerpt:

Republicans must finally be thankful Sarah Palin was their Vice Presidential choice last year. After all, they came this close– as these pining love letters/e-mails reveal– to choosing an adulterer who didn’t cover his tracks…