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“Revealing! An encyclopedia of what our celebrated betters do between the sheets.”—TIME“More astonishing and outrageous than most of us would even imagine.”—Forecast“Entirely fascinating. . . . Hugely enter… More >>
The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
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This book would have been far better if it were entitled “Intimate Sexual Perversions of Famous People”! Never in my life have I read such a litany of sexual excess! I’m not one of those people who think that sex is evil, but I do believe that it’s a beautiful act of love that should only be experienced in marriage. How sad that many of these famous people didn’t have balanced parental and moral guidance in this area. And why did the authors wait until the last chapter and appendix to feature people who had sucessful marriages and healthy sex lives? If we expect future generations to practice marital fidelity, then we need to give more time to writing about people who have suceeded instead of these sad examples.
Rating: 2 / 5
This book just seemed to portray the sexual frustrations, and perversions of famous people in the past. It would best not even published. I am sure that everyone may have wondered how ____’s love life was, but all I seemed to see in this book was the sad tale of trying to satisfy oneself sexually, only to end up disappointed in the end. It’s very interesting to note that most of these people are no longer living, and part of their demise was do to their promiscuous behavior. Perhaps their lives are to be a warning to us today.
Rating: 1 / 5
“The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People”, by Wallace, Wallace, Wallechinsky & Wallace. Delacorte Press, NY 1981. ISBN: 0-440-04152-X, HC 618/592 pages, with Index 22 pgs., & B/W photos. 9 1/2″ x 6 1/4″.
Three Wallaces and a Wallechinsky collaborated on an expose of sex lives of over 200 persons, all customarily known somebody’s from divers walks of life, many briefly or long relegated to the grave including generals, presidents, movie stars, writers, actors, industrialists, musicians, scientists, world leaders, sport figures and sex symbols.
The book is divided into 17 specious chapters for rhetorical overstatement reasons at best, each sexual biography possesses an accompanying picture of the lover or loveress. Authors indicate they scrutinized over 1500 biographies but also memoirs by their lovers, friends and enemies. They justified this reference work by noting this expositiion filled a gaping omission on “sexual behavior of well-known and distingished men and women in world history”.
Presumably their research dug deeper than that encountered with present-day tabloids. Despite its explicit nature, the authors’ material is largely confined to adults now deceased, unlike the goings-on of Hollywood’s present genre of teens and teeny-boobies with their pregnancies, partners, public & pubic display of sexuality & drug adventures and misadventures displayed on weekly newsstands courtesy of paparazzi. So, with what’s going on now, two decades later, the book is not a shocker and is thusly for those with a void in/or possessing a nugatory sexuality.
Rating: 4 / 5
I remember the title from long ago and had enjoyed several novels by Papa Irving Wallace, so ordered the book. Well, it’s OK but nothing you can’t live without. It’s not for sustained reading, but a book to pick up once in awhile and read a bit of dish about people in history. As a reminder, dear readers, everyone has a ‘story’ but they are not all interesting.
Rating: 3 / 5
This book is a great anthology of not only the intimate lives of interesting characters, but also a concise survey of the influence of sex on world history. Wonderfully written, and wildly entertaining!
Rating: 5 / 5