Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars

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The list of whom he did is almost dizzying: Vivien Leigh, George Cukor, Cole Porter (after he got his wooden leg, no less), Tab Hunter, Edith Piaf, Cecil Beaton, Spencer Tracy, Raymond Burr, Noel Coward, etc. Maybe a self-protection mechanism kicked in, but he found his own way to deal with things and didn't let it get him down. Eventually, a trailer was set up in the gas-station parking lot where gay, lesbian, and straight trysts were arranged discreetly by Scotty--not, he insists, for money but because he enjoyed helping people find sexual gratification (though he is careful to point out that the participants were free to exchange money among themselves; one wonders why he is so eager not to define himself as a pimp). According to Full Service the studios would all but empty of their big-name talent whenever Scotty Bowers' evening shift began at a little gas station on Hollywood Boulevard. E. was not wound enough, here is news that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, on miserable occasions, when driven to depths of boredom, actually had sex with each other instead of with members of their own sex.

Seattle Gay Scene "None of us are ready for what appears to be the kickass Old Hollywood memoir of 2012: Scotty Bowers's Full Service. But, if so, we will never know the full story: he is smart enough to know that that is not something to put in a memoir in the year 2012. For almost his entire life - and for whatever reason - Bowers has been something of a sex machine and is almost completely unapologetic about it. This book was for me, first and foremost, a tale of a male who was overly sexual his entire life due to abuse in his childhood and yet still felt like the luckiest man alive to have shared intimacy (not love though) with hundreds if not thousands of partners. The documentary was at turns hysterical, tawdry, moving, and heartbreaking, and I was thoroughly grateful I got to go (and meet the film's subject, Scotty, who's still going strong at 95!

The post-War years used to be very decadent, but no one talked about it and so most thought everything was very innocent.

Which again, I suspect some readers are shocked by because they think that concept was invented only in their generation -lol. I have a difficult time believing that Bowers was able to remember details of all of these supposed “tricks” without having kept note of them somewhere.On the other hand, Bowers is comfortable with his sexuality and probably doesn't even have the feeling that anything he has done is wrong. Even more troubling — especially in light of the current allegations about teachers at the Miramonte Elementary School — is Bowers matter-of-fact account of his childhood activities, which included his introduction to sex by his adult male neighbor, having sex with not one but several Roman Catholic priests, and arranging a lesbian tryst between a 13-year-old classmate and his own grade school teacher.