Most frequent male orgasm in fiction
Some literary accounts of sexual experience may or may not be true. It is not a field where
men are apt to be
modest. Boswell gives us a nice account in his "London Journal". In one
encounter, which took place with
Louisa on 12 January 1763, he was "fairly lost in supreme rapture" no less than five times, and
the worthy Louisa
declared him a prodigy. Atkins suggests that "Boswell was probably truthful."
Debate about frequency of orgasm often centres on six or seven times as remarkable. In
literature there are many
examples around such figures - in Teleny, "As true votaries of the Grecian god, we poured out
seven copious
libations to Priapus." In Catullus, a bigger figure is mentioned
. . . and bid some servant bar the door;
and don't rush out to call or shop,
but nicely wait for what I'll bring,
and then - nine hugs without a stop!
And Ovid, though growing old, managed it nine times with Corinna - but he is not at all
satisfied. In de Sade's
Juliette, Minsky never goes to bed without first discharging ten times ("It is a fact that the
inordinate amount of
human flesh I eat contributes greatly to the augmentation and thickening of my seminal fluid").
Such men are
weaklings compared with the performers of Arab and Japanese legend. In the "Arabian
Nights" one man manages
to make love forty times in one night; Japanese sexual athletes are similarly insatiable. And
there is a pleasant
little joke I cannot resist including - An English sailor got into an argument with a Chinese
sailor in Shanghai,
each boasting how many times he could do it. They decided to put the matter to the test. Each
took a girl to bed.
The Englishman performed once, then again, and finally - with difficulty for he had drunk too
much - a third time.
He marked each one on the wall with an upright stroke. In the morning the exhausted Chinese
crawled into his
room. He looked at the Englishman's tally and exclaimed - "One hundred and eleven ! Beaten
by one, by God!"
From The Illustrated Book of Sexual Records.
© 1974, 1982, 1997-2001 G.L. Simons
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