I am going to write about Silvio Berlusconi and his so-called private life. But before I do, I want to ask you a question. Could you write a serious biography of Mao Zedong and miss out the girls and the drugs? If you did, it would be a little read book.
Mao liked the girls. Even in his mid-seventies, this four-times- married man regularly invited three, four or even five women at a time into his oversized bed. The word “invited” overstates the extent of the willing co-operation of the other participants. Actually, Mao liked the boys, too, requiring that handsome young male attendants came to his chamber to give him nightly groin massages. He was pretty keen on the drugs too. He suffered from sleeplessness and, while trying to resolve it, became addicted to sleeping pills. In the 1930 there was Veronal, then sodium amytal and, finally, chloral hydrate, which induced euphoria in him.
