Prion’s internationally bestselling Sex Lives series presents lighthearted accounts of the sexual escapades of major figures in history, politics, religion, the arts, and film. Irreverent and gossipy, the books are packed with carnal tidbits and eye-opening revelations. The stars of stage, screen, and sport who saved their best performances for the bedroom; Popes, presidents, and politicians whose affairs of state came second to affairs of the heart; and history's most notorious sex maniacs, courtesans, nymphomaniacs, and gigolos—all are covered in this classic romp through the sex lives of the great and the good. Sex Lives of the Rich and Famous is full of the intimate anecdotes, and the feminine wiles and masculine lechery employed by beautiful women and powerful men.
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Prion’s internationally best–selling Sex Lives series presents lighthearted accounts of the sexual escapades of major figures in history, politics, religion, the arts, and the Silver Screen. Irreverent and gossipy, the books are packed with carnal tidbits and eye–opening revelations.
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Big man, big prick; small man, all prick,
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This book is surely an amalgam of facts and gossip. It has no references and no index. It shows already spelling faults in the names. So, it is not recommendable as a prime source of information for serious scholars.Nevertheless, its overall picture exposes one clear message: the blatant hypocrisy of the powerful, be they popes, emperors, tsars, kings, queens, princes, Khedives, Shahs, politicians or noblemen. Their maxim is 'Do as I say, not as I do.' Those who became rich (merchants, movie stars, artists) emulated them (T. Veblen). It proves mightily that 'power equals women'. On the other hand, some 'famous' names figuring in thus book are clearly 'victims' of this double standard hypocrisy: child prostitutes, courtesans, members of the demi-monde or findings of the casting couch. As L. Betzig said in her magisterial book 'Despotism and Differential Reproduction': 'All end of human life is its reproduction, and positions of strenght are exploited to this end.' This 'shocking' book is a powerful exposé.
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There can be no better place to begin our research than Hollywood, where so many distinguished celebrities arrived during the twentieth century to set up home, earn millions of dollars in the film industry and turn this stretch of Californian countryside into a notorious and fascinating sexual playground. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Prince of Wales, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Howard Hughes, Los Angeles, Aly Khan, Errol Flynn, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Anthony, Mata Hari, Ava Gardner, First World War, Jean Harlow, Sarah Bernhardt, Audrey Hepburn, Babe Ruth, Douglas Fairbanks, Harriette Wilson, James Dean, King Louis New!
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There can be no better place to begin our research than Hollywood, where so many distinguished celebrities arrived during the twentieth century to set up home, earn millions of dollars in the film industry and turn this stretch of Californian countryside into a notorious and fascinating sexual playground. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Prince of Wales, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Howard Hughes, Los Angeles, Aly Khan, Errol Flynn, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Anthony, Mata Hari, Ava Gardner, First World War, Jean Harlow, Sarah Bernhardt, Audrey Hepburn, Babe Ruth, Douglas Fairbanks, Harriette Wilson, James Dean, King Louis New!
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