Larry Flynt writes book about sex lives of U.S. presidents
By Jeff MillsApril 13th, 2011, 5:30 pmComments (9)
Everyone's favorite pornmeister, Larry Flynt, has a new book out, entitled One Nation Under Sex, in which he takes a closer look at the sex lives of U.S. presidents and first ladies, a topic traditionally eschewed by historians. Luckily, Flynt didn't act alone. He brought in Columbia University lecturer David Eisenbach to work with him, in order to up the credibility quotient.
As an inveterate dirt-digger with deep pockets, this kind of book is right up Flynt's alley. Choice bits include the slutty ways of Dolly Madison, James Buchanan's gay love affair, and the question that keeps us all up at night: who is the more selfish lover, Bill Clinton or JFK?
Material for the book was gleaned over several years from various sources including the National Archives and presidential libraries. And it appears there was plenty of fodder enabling the iconoclastic Flynt to be the fly in Doris Kearns Goodwin's ointment. He said:
"I think Jefferson was like the Energizer Bunny with more than just Sally Hemings if you know what I mean. Historians have stayed clear of anything that might be unsavory about the guy who drafted the Constitution."
So what does everyone think? Should the prurient details of the Founding Fathers' lives be part of the national conversation, or was Monica Lewinsky more than enough, without having to go into Benjamin Franklin's seduction techniques with French women?
Commentarium (9 Comments)
The George W. Bush chapter will be dull. It takes skill and imagination to share good, satisfying sex. And as we all know, W lacked skill and imagination.
"It takes skill and imagination to share good, satisfying sex?" Since when?
TJ drafted the declaration of independence. James Madison drafted the Constitution. Jefferson was in France at the time.
That would make a great anti-blurb.
Ahhh, Jefferson beat me to the punch there. But aside from being flat wrong about TJ's involvement with the Constitution, what the hell is Flynt talking about? Historians have been talking about Sally Hemings for years; there's no "cover-up" to protect him.
And historians have covered the sex lives of the presidents forever. Now it's just going to be phrased less elegantly and by someone who doesn't know his history in the first place.
I'm interested in the physics of lovemaking with William Howard Taft, our fattest president. I imagine harnesses were involved.
Who cares? Ok, so JFK and Clinton were'nt exactly the models of fidelity, tell me something I don't know. I mean, what kind of creepy,desperate perve type reads this kind of stuff? Or, what do there private lives have to do with history/politics?
Do you have a script to comment "who cares?" on every post?
Now you say something