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Author(s): Nigel Cawthorne  
ISBN: 185375546X
ISBN-13: 9781853755460
Publisher: Prion Books
Publication Date: 01 Jul 2004
Pages: 288pp (198 x 129 x 11mm)
Format: Paperback
Published Price: £6.99
Sex Lives of the Popes
by Nigel Cawthorne  
Outline
'Nothing is so powerful in drawing the spirit of a man downwards as the caresses of a woman' - St Augustine 'Soliloquies' In the last 2,000 years the Popes have set the sexual agenda for almost a quarter of the world's population. But while preaching chastity from on high many have practised something altogether more dissolute. The Pope was the most powerful man on earth. He was a man with a direct line to God and there was no one who could tell him he could not sleep with whoever he wanted. There was a female Pope too, this only became apparent when she gave birth in the street. Added to that there have been pornographers, homosexuals, paedophiles, womanisers, perverts and good old-fashioned adulterers who have occupied the Holy See. A new, updated edition of this best-selling title, Sex Lives of the Popes is a humorous expose of papal promiscuity.