Erin ’s Reviews > Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House > Status Update

The same compulsions that send a man hurtling towards the White House can also send him into a foolhardy tryst with a woman.

Nan Britton the mother of Warren G Harding's love child, was the first presidential mistress to write a tell-all book in 1927.

A 16th-century apothecary said "Syphilis came from choosing beds unknown and plugging holes best left alone."

At least 3 presidents have been accused of rape.

The 1914 Journalist's Creed stated "I believe that no one should write as a journalist what he would not say as a gentleman. " And gentleman did not gossip about other gentlemen's love lives.

"Every man knew that women could keep their legs closed if they really wanted to and failing that the self-welding mechanism on their vaginas would kick into action. Resistance was viewed as spirited foreplay. And pregnancy was a sure sign she had enjoyed the sex. "

In the 1884 election the majority of voters, forced to choose between a corrupt candidate and a rapist, chose the rapist.

Sally Hemings was during her lifetime called "The African Venus", "Dusky Sally", "Yellow Sally ", "Black Sal" and "a slut as common as the pavement ".

Hubris Syndrome: Aquired by wielding power over a period of time.

The sex drive mocks logic and is resistant to common sense.