Most sexually athletic in the West
| We have already mentioned some prodigious Western performers. To their names may be added Casanova ("Memoires") and Frank Harris ("My Life and Loves"). |
 The Italian adventurer, Casanova, lives up to his prodigious reputation. |
| Guy de Maupassant was said to suffer from satyriasis or chronic hyper-excitability of the penis - sometimes taken as the male equivalent of nymphomania. Maupassant told Frank Harris that he could make love half a dozen times in a single hour; later he made the same boast to Flaubert and, to prove his point, went to a brothel with a witness and accomplished the trick. Maupassant claimed to be no more tired after making love twenty times than after two! |
 Guy de Maupassant, above, made love to half a dozen ladies in the space of one hour. |
