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thingsteal: New book says Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette sexually incompatible
History says king's impotence made queen promiscuous, but new research reveals the unfortunate medical truth
Monday, October 14, 2002
By Michael Woods, Post-Gazette National Bureau
...In a new 700-page biography, "Marie-Antoinette: The Rebel," Simone Bertiere concludes that the king and queen were, indeed, sexually incompatible.
But it wasn't a matter of impotence. Rather, the king's royal endowment and the queen's narrow aperture made both avoid sexual intercourse because it was painful....
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History says king's impotence made queen promiscuous, but new research reveals the unfortunate medical truth
Monday, October 14, 2002
By Michael Woods, Post-Gazette National Bureau
...In a new 700-page biography, "Marie-Antoinette: The Rebel," Simone Bertiere concludes that the king and queen were, indeed, sexually incompatible.
But it wasn't a matter of impotence. Rather, the king's royal endowment and the queen's narrow aperture made both avoid sexual intercourse because it was painful....
Read the rest of the story here.