Lauren Berlant teaches English and Gender Studies at the
University of Chicago. Her most recent book is The Female
Complaint: the Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American
Culture. She also edited, with Lisa Duggan,Our Monica,
Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest.
In just two days, Eliot Spitzer went from white knight to shamed ex-governor. But the real loser in all of this is sex itself.


