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Warhol's Sex Life

The second half of the book's title is only marginally more accurate than the first, since interviewees generally prove unwilling or unable to divulge much about the artist's sexual habits, but Wilcock occasionally elicits some tabloid fodder. “Everything is sexual to Andy without the sex act actually taking place,” writer Charles Henri Ford says. “He doesn’t like to take his pants off or for anybody to touch him.” Superstar Ultra Violet offers this rather politically-incorrect comment: “I think a very creative homosexual has a … very necrophilic sort of tendency. Some of his Flowers are very beautiful, but I’ve seen some that are sort of mauve and blue and almost poisonous.” (Bizarrely, Polk states, “I definitely do not think Andy is a fag.) Amaya says that he first heard about Warhol when the artist was working on a “cock book,” in the late 1950s, at the start of Warhol’s career as a fine artist, when he was “going around town drawing everybody’s cock.” He concludes, “[H]e was very ahead of things.”

-From the Autobiography and Sex life of Andy Warhol.
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