THE SEX LIFE OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Hemingway told Thornton Wilder that when he was living in Paris he needed sex thrice daily. He is also rumored to have taken drugs to quiet his libido. He probably wouldn’t have said this openly these days, but he was known to share that a man “must govern” sex. Sadly, there is anecdotal evidence of him having a pinky sized penis according to the matador Sidney Franklin and author Barnaby Conrad. Conrad shared it was, “‘bout the size of a thirty-thirty shell.” Despite that, Hemingway claimed he had sex with Mata Hari, Italian Countesses, and a Greek princess.

Strange quirk: Hemingway believed that you only had a certain number of orgasms in your life, which you needed to space out thoughtfully.