Cheating Hearts

October, 1993

Cheating HeartsMarriage. It's not what it used to be--actually, it never was. You can gussy up holymatrimony all you want, but isn't it a lot simpler to speak the unspoken--namely, that for many people, having sex with the same person night after night, decade beyond decade, wears thin? Last year, a writer named Dalma Heyn tried to put a new spin on the issue when she stepped forward with The Erotic Silence of the American Wife, a chic manifesto celebrating female infidelity. What happened next...