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She describes her early adolescence, her rise to stardom and her marriage.
Tucked into the crevices of that story is an inherent disinterest in sex.
Monroe explains that she didn’t quite understand her sex appeal, nor did she think about sex or have the urge to be seduced.
The world’s most sexualised starlet didn’t understand her own appeal - it says a lot.
Monroe seemed perplexed as to why everyone was so fascinated with sex.
It’s how I felt for so long. But it’s definitely interesting to observe.
It’s a real shame that so many people throughout history missed out on the chance to fully understand themselves.
It took me about 25 years to figure out that I was asexual. Marilyn was ‘the impossible dream’ that a lot of us sepia ladies liked to dream about.
According to Anna [daughter of Sigmund Freud], Marilyn was bisexual.”—Dr. lang
“Oh, I loved Marilyn! During those years Natasha helped Marilyn to gain confidence and gave her the tools to act….Obviously when Marilyn broke through big-time in 1953, pressure was applied to drop Natasha for Marilyn’s image and her long-term acceptance by Middle America.”—Dr.
Lytess was a lesbian, or at least a bisexual, with whom Monroe may or may not have had a dalliance in the early 1950s.
Then there are the stories of Joan Crawford offering the newcomer quality cast-offs if Monroe would only try them on in Joan’s bedroom.
Banner’s book alleges Monroe was much more than a ditzy flake and was instead one of the first examples of a protofeminist.
She was truly a sensuous woman.”—bisexual British actress Judy Carne
“I think a big reason Marilyn is such an enduringly appealing, sexy icon is that she’s one of few actresses who looks like she’d actually want and enjoy sex.”—openly bisexual Drew Barrymore
Boze Hadleigh’s latest book is Marilyn Forever(Taylor Trade Publishing).
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Shemighthave been one of the world's premier sex symbols, but Marilyn Monroe was plagued with well-documented personal insecurities -- among them the possibility she might be a lesbian, a new book alleges.
Today’s women can feel for her in a way that women of her own era did not. Monroe would bring Lytess on-set to approve her work—much to the chagrin of her male directors—and Lytess was responsible for Monroe’s over-enunciation of dialog in early films like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. "Her entire life was a process of self-formation.
Almost inseparable one day, then…phfft! The repertoire afforded her was already pretty limited.”—Jackie Cooper, former child star
“Another of Marilyn Monroe’s tragedies is that if she were bisexually inclined and in love with a woman, she’d have had at all costs to hide it. With no competition.”—Arthur Laurents, gay playwright-screenwriter (“Gypsy”)
“One of the bigger Hollywood mysteries was why Marilyn and Natasha split up.
And not to be overlooked is the close friendship that developed between veteran actress Barbara Stanwyck and her lovely young costar in Clash by Night (1952). There was no ‘lesbian chic’ then [during the McCarthy witch-hunt era], just bigotry and reprisal. She even thought it was a benefit that her marriage was long-distance.
As someone who identifies as asexual, this drew me to find out more.
“She desired women, had affairs with them, and worried that she might be a lesbian by nature,” Banner says.