Senate hopeful's sexcapade ends poll run

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">It may not be illegal for a man to ask his wife for sex in front of strangers in a nightclub with cages and whips suspended from the ceiling, but it is inadvisable if he is considering a run for the US Senate.<br /><br />Jack Ryan, an improbably tall, dark and handsome candidate for a Senate seat in Illinois, twisted in the wind for days last week, unwilling to admit he had done anything wrong after the release of divorce papers in which his former wife, a steely blonde <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Star Trek</span> actress, described how he had taken her to "explicit sex clubs" in New York and Paris six years ago.<br /><br />Ryan finally withdrew from the race on Friday after Republican party leaders cut him loose and even his own aides told him brutally he could not go on.<br /><br />When it came to allegations of dirty misdeeds, the half-human, half-machine "borg" from <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Star Trek</span>: <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Voyager</span>, otherwise known as Jeri Ryan, had the edge in credibility over her millionaire Ivy League husband, who walked and talked like a model American senator but was foolish enough to think he could survive a sex scandal.<br /><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="" font-style:="" italic=""> The</span> <span style="" font-weight:="" bold="" font-style:="" italic="">Sunday Times, London</span></div> </div>