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

"Men in power like that don't give a damn about women. They were not important in the end. They treated women like toys. That's just the way it was."

"You know I get a migraine headache if I don't get a strange piece of ass every day."

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

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

Congressman John Tillman considered suppressing news of presidential adultery a "matter of nationwide interest and importance. It's a non-partisan question."

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 ".