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Marilyn Monroe's wild bisexual being - as Ana de Armas movie given most explicit rating
Arguably the most famous sex symbol to have walked the ground, Marilyn Monroe led a wild love life that spanned everyone from presidents to playwrights, actors to actresses
Marilyn Monroe is one of the most renowned Hollywood stars of all time, regarded as the most desirable woman in the world for many years.
Now her life is due to feature in the 2022 Netflix motion picture Blonde, starring Ana De Armas - and the steamy film has been given the highest age rating possible: NC-17 for sexual content.
Iconic images of her became globally known, the picture of her standing over a Novel York air vent one of the best famous from that time.
But as well as her colossal fame, Monroe was also known to have had a wild and fascinating sex life full of mystery and taboo for the time she was living in.
Marilyn had once been married to her high school beau, but when he joined the Merchant Navy and she started modelling, the pair divorced after just four years in 1946 - paving the way for the wild sex animation that would follow.
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Was Marilyn Monroe asexual? Her autobiography is revealing
July, 2023: This article was updated to remove bylines at the ask for of the author
It’s safe to tell that Marilyn Monroe is the most sexualised woman in film history. But was she also one of the most prominent asexuals of our time?
The possibility of her leaning on the asexual spectrum still has researchers and activists talking.
Asexuality feels like a rather new term, but it can be traced back to the 1890s. It began gaining prominence after the 1940 Kinsey Scale included a ‘no sexual attraction’ category.
This is partly why recently resurfaced excerpts from Marilyn Monroe’s unfinished autobiography, written around the same age, are so curious.
“My story” is an unfinished autobiography penned by the starlet herself. 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 possess the urge to be seduced.
The world’s most sexualised starlet didn’t understand her own appeal - it says a lot.
Monroe seemed uncertain as to why
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 dyke, a new novel alleges.
Author Lois Banner describes Monroe's doubts about her sexuality in her new book, "Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox," an extract of which has been published in The Guardian.
"She had affairs with many eminent men –- baseball great Joe DiMaggio, playwright Arthur Miller, director Elia Kazan, actor Marlon Brando, singer Frank Sinatra, the Kennedy brothers –- and she married DiMaggio and Miller," Banner writes. "Yet she desired women, had affairs with them, and worried that she might be queer woman by nature."
She continues, "How could she be the world's heterosexual sex goddess and want women? How could she have the world's most flawless body on the outside and acquire such internal imperfections? Why was she unable to bear a child? The adult Marilyn was haunted by these questions."
Still, Banner's profile of Monroe, who died in 1962 at the age of 36, is more flattering in other respects. The author even argues that the representative, frequently brushed aside as a "dumb b
Pride and Joy: Why Many Queer Men Idolize Marilyn Monroe
Some male lover men have adopted the image of Marilyn Monroe as their patron saint. But behind the image runs a line of pathos even more irresistible to the legions of Marilyn’s homosexual fans.
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Marilyn Monroe. So many associations arise when we consider the figure behind this well-known mention. She was Hollywood royalty, reigning as queen of classic Hollywood glamour. Timeless sex symbol, blonde bombshell. Slayer of men’s hearts, from the average Joe watching her films to baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, movie moguls, incandescent stars, and a president of the United States. Effervescent comedienne, winking her way to self-knowledge and a hidden wisdom that eluded many who claimed to know her and love her.
Beneath the baggage of her freighted name lay a woman beleaguered by shadows that trailed her from a fractured childhood into the glaring lights of fame. Cast adrift early in experience, Marilyn Monroe – born more prosaically as Norma Jeane Mortenson – navigated a turbulent sea of foster homes and orphanages, a journey that imprinted her with a lifelong quest for love and stability.