I think for 2 reasons: a) Americans absolutely hate liars. You can see that in their schooling system at a very young age. Cheating (in the academic sense) in a

I think for 2 reasons: a) Americans absolutely hate liars. You can see that in their schooling system at a very young age. Cheating (in the academic sense) in an american school (and I would even generalize to English speaking schools) is, as far as I've experienced, sanctioned much more severly than in France and I'm sure other countries. b) Sex sells man. Sex sells so much !! Music, movies, the news, commercials etc etc make so much money off of sex. They probably don't even care that someone important cheated his/her marriage, it just matters that it generates revenue.