It shouldn't take a rocket scientist, or even an anthropologist, to make this observation, but one anthropologist did feel impelled to comment in 1999: “The craving for sexual gratification is a primordial drive … that has not changed its basic composition in some 70 million years.” The poet W. H. Auden called it “that intolerable neural itch.” It is so powerful that men and women high and low and throughout history risked their careers, their fortunes, their reputations, and even their lives to satisfy it – from Paris of Troy and Dido of Carthage, to Mark Anthony and Cleopatra, Heloise and Abelard, on to the likes of Billy Swaggart, Jesse Jackson, and Ted Kennedy – not to mention presidents Thomas Jefferson, Grover Cleveland, Warren Harding, John F. Kennedy, and William Jefferson Clinton. The craving has enabled many a lowborn man, and also many a woman in a male-dominated world, to gain high place among royalty and other sites of wealth and power.