These 13 People From History Were Total Freaks In The Sheets, And My Jaw Is On The Damn Floor

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Sultan Moulay Ismāʿīl ibn Sharīf of Morocco, who lived from 1645/6 to 1727, supposedly sired around 888 children in a span of 32 years, meaning he had sex between .68 and 2.87 times per day.

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Benjamin Franklin, who lived from 1706 to 1790, had a large number of mistresses and suggested that he preferred having sex with older women because they were more experienced and “grateful.”

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer, who lived from 1712 to 1778, liked to be spanked and dominated.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, who lived from 1756 to 1791, had a fondness for the scatological.

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Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, who lived from 1797 to 1851, supposedly lost her virginity to her future husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, on top of her mother’s grave.

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Victor Hugo, author of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables, who lived from 1802 to 1885, had multiple mistresses and visited brothels so often that they closed for the day in mourning after his death.

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Hans Christian Andersen, author of fairy tales like “The Little Mermaid” and “Thumbelina,” who lived from 1805 to 1875, never married — but he kept incredibly detailed records of masturbation in his diary.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, who lived from 1821 to 1881, was into feet.

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Guy de Maupassant, a French author who lived from 1850 to 1893, bragged about how many times he could have sex per day and even hired a bookkeeper to keep count as proof.

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H.G. Wells, author of War of the Worlds and The Time Machine, who lived from 1866 to 1946, had a large number of mistresses and once “made love” on top of a bad review (and then burned it afterward).

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James Joyce, Irish author of Dubliners and Ulysses, who lived from 1882 to 1941, sent raunchy letters to his wife Nora, detailing their sexual escapades — and seemed particularly infatuated with her farts.

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Peggy Guggenheim, art collector who lived from 1898 to 1979, slept with over 1,000 men, and described herself as “sort of a nymphomaniac.”

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And finally, Ernest Hemingway, American author of The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea, who lived from 1899 to 1961, enjoyed gender-swapping role play.