10 More Historically Important Perverts

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10. CS Lewis was into spanking, and an older woman he called “mother”
9. Joseph Smith Jr. had up to 40 wives, some in their teens
8. Hans Christian Andersen wasn’t into sex, but he liked to visit brothels and kept a log of his masturbation sessions
7. Henry VIII needed a lot of women to keep him happy, and the Pope wasn’t going to stand in his way
6. Charlie Chaplin was into underage girls
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau wanted to be punished like a little boy
4. King Edward VII earned the nicknames “Edward the Caresser” and “Dirty Bertie”
3. Caligula was into absolute power… and maybe his sisters
2. Grover Cleveland married a woman he had practically raised and fathered an illegitimate child (allegedly through rape)
1. The Marquis de Sade
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[@csilabillabilla]

no one who has read Andersen's stories would think of him as a jovial grandfatherly figure..

[@bcaye]

My thought exactly.

[@mintymoon2337]

As a kid I just saw him as a very emo hopeless romantic.

[@shimmeringfairydust3275]

They are tragically beautiful

[@keenoled]

Ha, you beat me to it. Totally.

[@mfjdv2020]

No, they are very sad and indeed depressing.

[@leecline5759]

I had a Grover Cleveland moment once., it creeped me out beyond belief. One time while I was visiting my mom's church, I got to hold an infant and one of the older ladies standing around me while this was happening said "You make such a cute couple, promise me you'll get married when you're both older." She chuckled and another lady made the comment that I could help raise the girl "just like I wanted" and then the pair laughed. I felt like all the blood drained out of me in that moment and I have never felt more creeped out. I was 19 at the time.

[@sheldream981]

Nearly every UK pop and rockstar in the 70's should be in this vid...

[@somniumisdreaming]

and most US congressmen

[@eineweitereratselhafteseel8801]

And politicians

[@schechter01]

Let's not leave out former congressman Henry Hyde...

[@badmanwhitesuburb6117]

“Hey bro what you doing,” - Caligula’s sister

[@Toywins]

Like, FOR REAL!!! 😩😂😂😂

[@flonniegray]

L

[@robertdaley1194]

Hey Caesar what you doing "Caligula's horse.

[@kamikazecassidy]

Really love that Caligula was a hated childhood nickname that meant ‘little boots’. Pretty awesome it’s how he’s remembered even though he despised it.

[@sydIRISH]

Rome was AWESOME.

[@imagesbyraphael]

6:21 'Anna of Cleves was less attractive than her portrait...' Henry got catfished!!! 😂

[@imagesbyraphael]

@waddup I'm Alex and I love musicals sorry, don't know it. Not aware of the reference!

[@imagesbyraphael]

Haha, I had no idea!

[@aceakenko8753]

Madlad

[@chrism1190]

lol

[@sebsbeehotel]

Images By Raphael you, you say that I tricked you cause I, didn’t look like my profile picture

[@sarateubert8252]

C.S. Lewis relationship with his dead war buddy's mother reminds me of the backstory of Principal Skinner from the Simpsons.

[@winnifredforbes8712]

Could very well be!

[@arleedennis791]

🤣🤣🤣

[@rafaelbrgnr]

OMG! Every time I watch The Simpsons I will remind of that. hahaha

[@lemankurtz8950]

Meh.....spanking? That's child's play (take any creepy connotations out of that)....but, the older mother thing?......Oedipus much? That one is VERY odd to me, even though it's supposedly a somewhat common thing.....commonly less severe in most though. Weird certainly.

[@fozziebear5351]

That episode was terrible.

[@JustinHuman1269]

In other words, nothing has changed in Hollywood.

[@summerdowlig]

Or POUS.

[@Ken_Scaletta]

What is "immoral' about Hollywood, exactly? Take a look at your President, That's the most immoral person on the planet.

[@zeroinsanity4799]

@@Ken_Scaletta no u

[@Raebrained]

@@Ken_Scaletta Hollywood has been immoral way before Trump was even swimming in his fathers nutsack

[@fbauzo024fb]

Well he mentioned a bunch of kings which would make it a more political thing.

[@Zebred2001]

"If you take this step, it will ensure your salvation & exaltation & that of your father's household & all of your kindred." That has to be the most epic pickup line of all time!

[@mikemiller1646]

Vince Klortho I'm going to try this line next weekend.

[@Zebred2001]

As long as you realize you'll be a bigger buzz-kill than Buzz Killington!

[@just-dl]

Mike, don't bother...it didn't get me anything....

[@utasenpai4915]

Thats so sad , nasty, and pathetic !!

[@astrofrk]

Jim Jones had a similar line. All marriages were void.

[@NickCC23]

"Edward VII finally ascended to the throne at 59" or as the still waiting Prince Charles might say: a mere youngster.

[@emilymalden3310]

Will Charles ever be king?

[@tanjahorvatserbiaoldslavsh4685]

@@emilymalden3310 Will not because of 2nd marriage. William is the next king.

[@johnsaunders2109]

Maybe not a pervert, but Big Ears is a real weirdo !!

[@blue8ify]

I am always impressed by how well fitting are your shirts. Classy.

[@larapalma3744]

Very nice and he knows it's hot lol

[@summerbrooks9922]

@@larapalma3744 Don't get carried away with it. That dude has a sly look all his own.

[@limegreenmamba5218]

It's actually too tight at the clavicle.

[@chucknorris277]

Ummmm i think i smell just the smallest bit of sarcasm in there hahaha

[@needaman66]

Utube patreons pay for fittings

[@vr6swp]

Wow. In comparison to these dudes, my fetish for women in leather pants seems pretty tame.

[@sabrinafelber]

lol it seems so.

[@Olkv3D]

Yes, but from what animal hide are these, said leather pants procured?

[@vr6swp]

@@Olkv3D Back in the day, cowhide or maybe goat skin(?). In 2020 almost 0% of “leather” clothing is real animal skin leather, or if it is it’s unbelievably expensive.

[@geraldfriend256]

Leiderhosen? Sick f@$k

[@armadillotoe]

You are attracted to women in leather because they smell like a new truck.

[@sopcannon]

10 More Historically Important Perverts female version please

[@user-yu1yz6qk1g]

- Catherine of Russia - Countess Dracula - Elizabeth the First of England

[@evolution031680]

@@user-yu1yz6qk1g Elizabeth I?🤔

[@user-yu1yz6qk1g]

@@evolution031680 "she" was a man

[@evolution031680]

@@user-yu1yz6qk1g ...Are you a flat-Earther, by chance?

[@user-yu1yz6qk1g]

@@evolution031680 One story states that the real Elizabeth died aged approx. 12 and was replaced by a lookalike boy. That's how they explained that she/he never became pregnant. Those who tell that story are probably flat-bellyers :-)

[@musket-hc1fc]

It's nice to hear someone speaking English correctly. Your grammar is impeccable.

[@d.l.r.6256]

De Sade is an interesting one to study because so much of it is right out there in the open - read his works (or skim) and watch the documentaries and dramatic renditions of De Sade and his life. If you haven't already, it is worth it.

[@jackei8832]

What about Thomas Jefferson who slept with a 14 year old slave on his land and had 6 kids with her

[@highlightbeyond]

woah thats true?

[@robynsalaver4069]

That wasn't considered deviant or perverted, which was the point of this video.

[@shannonpatton73]

@@robynsalaver4069 one of them was on list for getting 15 year old pregnant & then marrying an 18 year old at 55. Surely if this true the 14 year slave thing is worse

[@Koolkays77]

Yonela B. Where I’m from that’s the age of conceit

[@saltychips4866]

@Austin Kays Age of conceit? Maybe Jefferson was conceited to believe Sally wanted the relationship, however, I think you meant age of consent.

[@yasuke9317]

"He could never in her company, to be provoked and steered to know her carnally" - Hank Ocho An Amazingly worded burn.

[@susanmccormick6022]

Did he ever think she might have found him repulsive?No,of course not.

[@goodlookingcorpse]

This video seems to conflate being kinky with being a sexual predator. [added for clarity] Simon begins by saying "if the metoo movement has taught us anything, it's that perverts are everywhere." It's clear from the rest of the video that 'perverts' is intended to include people who are consensually kinky. Obviously, the metoo movement isn't about kinkiness or the lack of it--it's about sexual predators. There's nothing contradictory about a sexual predator who only performs heterosexual 'missionary-position' sex. It's treating two un-correlated things as if they were the same thing. It's similar to saying "if the Catholic church's cover up of child abuse has taught us anything, it's that gay culture can be found even in religion."

[@lemaygaming6952]

James Hutchings He said that the people in the video range from mildly kinky to sexual predators.

[@joannaatkins822]

To be a Pervert is defined as: "A person whose sexual behaviour is regarded as abnormal and unacceptable" By this measure (and by the social norms of the times these people lived), to be perverted is to not be heterosexual and "vanilla" in ones appetites.

[@ViveMeorLeti]

Michael, sure, but they're using "perverts" (the most extreme end of the spectrum) in the title, probably because it sounds juicier and more scandalous, but it also creates a link in people's minds between that word and the men in the video, regardless of what they had actually done. And by grouping mild whipping and lusting after 8 year olds together, they're doing the kink community a huge disservice. Because there are still people out there who think anyone who isn't vanilla is a complete pervert (the kind of people who think homosexuality leads to bestiality, for example), and there is no need to throw any more fuel on that distasteful fire.

[@scarlettethefieryphoenix925]

Phil Atkins the problem those associated with the kink community have with this video is the word “unacceptable” in that definition...

[@allthingsharbor]

And stick to facts, to what is known, and not spread about tales of what someone merely thinks or suspects.

[@ThisisalGOOGLESCHANNEL]

Hans Christian Anderson ~"please excuse the shaky writing"

[@kaustin797]

This is ̶ ̶a̶l̶3̶6̶9̶9̶..GOOGLE'S CHANNEL Okay I’m late but you sir, go to the corner. You go to corner and think about what you just said. 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@1025paper]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@notlikely4468]

What's the sound of one Hans clapping?

Just because C.S Lewis liked an older chick it doesn't make the dude a pervert, freaky maybe but not a perv..

[@mfjdv2020]

It's not even "freaky", it is perfectly normal and happens all the time. And please don't refer to females as "chicks". It's vulgar.

[@valh3503]

Are you fa real

[@wildcherryblossom]

I think it's more about his dead war buddy's mom he promised to look after that makes it creepy.

[@dm0065]

The fact that he wanted to whip the chicks is the thing that pushes him over the top imo

[@gamersinger5118]

@@mfjdv2020 I believe the word you are looking for is demeaning. But even that can be argued because all words can be used differently with a particular perspective. Chick was more of a "slang" word similar to bird or broad originally.

[@loditx7706]

No Roman Polanski? I guess cause he's still alive and might be litigious. There's also Lewis Carroll; although I have heard that his love of little girls might have been suspicious, he at least was never known to have acted upon it.

[@lindasteel4502]

LodiTX I think I saw a video recently which did mention Roman Polanski, I'm sure it was TopTenz. It was about Hollywood people who had fallen from grace. Some of these I don't think are perverts, just a bit odd, and I agree with a lot of the comments that there are some major paedophiles left off the list whilst many of those mentioned consist of consenting adults.

[@shyanmarie4405]

Roman Polanski is a nasty man. But Lewis Carroll was possibly a sicko as well??? I'm not calling you a liar, but I was wondering where you found this information? It would make sense since most of his stories center around children, specifically girls.

[@loditx7706]

The point of my reply was that he was not a sicko. He didn't do anything wrong. He had a marked preference for little girls and their wonder and innocence. He wrote the Alice books about a specific little girl, but also collected pictures of little girls and spent time talking and walking and playing with them. I don't know that anyone made anything of it at the time, but in retrospect scholars (who have to find new things to study and write about) have delved into the motivation for his apparent fixation with little girls, but whatever his fantasies, if any, he never acted on them; therefore he was not a sicko. He did have a form of autism that allowed him to function at a high level, but caused problems with social interactions. Perhaps because of his autism he found it easier to spend time with little girls. That last sentence is pure speculation on my part. I know little about Lewis Carroll and less about autism.

[@just-dl]

Carroll wasn't a perv; he was mentally or emotionally a child himself. He enjoyed playing with children (felt more comfortable with them) and especially, the girls. One of the kids who grew up with him made several comments (one in lovely british dry humour) about the complete lack of sexuality in his involvement, but the awkwardness of realizing one has grown up, but the close friend of one's mother and father hadn't...in short, "out growing" an older man....

[@loditx7706]

D L: Yes, you see. That was the point of my comment. One cannot know another's inner desires or fantasies and even if they are such as might raise questions; in the case of Carroll it is generally accepted that whatever his fantasies he never acted upon them. In the case of the friend you quoted what was stated was no doubt correct, but for a different reason than his immaturity. She had outgrown him. She became an adult and he preferred little girls. For most of his life he was an instructor in mathematical logic and linear algebra at Christ Church, Oxford University. He was also an ordained Anglican cleric. None of these accomplishments indicate to me a man suffering from a Peter Pan complex, such as you imply; nor do his friendships with John Ruskin, Dante Rosetti, Hunt, Millais, etc. He was very comfortable and welcomed by adults and at house parties was an entertaining guest not afraid to sing tolerably well, indulge in story telling, and was reportedly adept at charades. I suggest you do some research on Charles Dodgson, his real name. The argument about his possible pedophilia continues among scholars and probably always will, with no conclusion being reached.

[@margueritejohnson6407]

The Marquis de Sade was a prisoner in the Bastille and the revolutionaries released the rather dazed old man without realising who he was.

[@thisisahumanlol8255]

WHY DID I CHOOSE TO WATCH THIS?

[@mandingojd]

What about Mozart and his booty music? The man was way ahead of his time...

[@josephpasquini7167]

He mentioned him in the other video, this is part 2

[@mandingojd]

@Austin T. Google it 🙃

[@Djdjndxjsnd]

His letters to his sister too 😳

[@roonilwazlib3089]

@@Djdjndxjsnd I now need to know

[@martinbaxter7840]

Can't exactly say that I enjoyed it... but it was educational, for which I I'm thankful.

[@juliagulia5823]

Charlie Chaplin the first R. kelly

[@johnmarston3682]

They'll give you golden showers

[@TheT151]

No Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis take the titles away before Kelly

[@JustinGarfield1]

Lol

[@johnnylightning203]

@@TheT151 You're a special kind of stupid, ain't ya?

[@paulheap1982]

@@johnnylightning203 Jerry Lee Lewis did marry his 13 year old cousin.

[@PRIMEVAL543]

0:37 CS Lewis 2:10 Joseph Smith Jr. 3:25 Hans Christian Anderson (Many comments asking „Thats pervert??“) 4:47 Henry the 8th 6:55 Charlie Chaplin 8:43 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9:43 King Edward 7th 11:05 Caligula 12:57 Grover Cleveland 15:03 The Marquis de Sade (Aproximately 50 shades of grey rated I for illegal and S for sin)

[@1955thekeeper]

Besides your ability to bring topics to light that have fallen through the cracks of time, your presentation and elocution of the spoken text are enjoyable to listen to. Thank you for the videos you produce.

[@coconut6468]

Spoken text? 🙄

[@CanadianRaven13]

Joseph Smith was such a great con man.

[@paintriarchdave7977]

Woody Allen married his adopted daughter. No one remembers that.(not a question) Well...surprise.

[@aimeemyers1]

I was thinking the exact same thing

[@Ken_Scaletta]

She was not his adopted daughter. He was never married to Mia Farrow and never lived with her. Soon-Yi was adopted by Mia Farrow with an earlier husband, Andre Previn. Previn was her adopted father, not Woody Allen. She never even met Woody Allen until she was like 15. he was not her father in any respect. He never had a parental relationship with her. She was his girlfriend's daughter. That's not to defend him for doing that/ It was definitely creepy. But people get it wrong with the "daughter" thing. She wasn't. The facts are sordid enough on their own. There is no need to invent more.

[@GaelinW]

Literally, everyone remembers that. It's the first thing people talk about when his name is mentioned.

[@hopemccubbin8661]

I thought we all remembered

[@hopemccubbin8661]

@@Ken_Scaletta he acted as her father for her entire childhood. Look how much you had to write to justify his asinine behavior. CUT THE CRAP.

[@thehellyousay]

Things you never needed to learn, and now, can never unlearn. T'is me own undoing, t'is.

[@islandgirl581]

Love your delivery. You always sound interested and enthusiastic. Sooo much more interesting than the"zombie automated commentary" Thank you 😊

[@valeniusthekat]

You wear well tailored shirts dear sir 👍

[@shiny_x3]

Please don't conflate "out of the norm" but consensual sexuality with predatory behavior that happens to involve sex. They are not variations on the same spectrum, they are entirely different things.

[@mfjdv2020]

Well said, you two.

[@grmpEqweer]

Yes!

[@williamroberts1693]

@@TheMaru666 It can be if one of the perverts manipulates the other. We don't have enough information. Read The Holy Bible if you are unsure of what is sick and twisted.

[@isobelscholten]

I agree. Having a thing for whipping is not the same as being a pedophile.

[@TVeldhorst]

@@williamroberts1693 Because the holy bible is full of sick and twisted stuff?

[@tiffanyb6259]

The way he says "pervert" cracks me up each time lol

[@dogbadger]

Saville made this lot look like rank amateurs.

[@just-dl]

Saville gets his own top ten....

[@greenaum]

Well yes, but at least the rest of them were actually entertaining or did some other useful thing.

[@johnalanelson]

He makes Bill Cosby seem like a saint by comparison!

[@lanaesworld6976]

Its sick how long he got away with his abuse and basically flaunted that he was untouchable. And he was so creepy and looked creepy and was always left alone with so many children. And the BBC just kept hiding any reports of abuse If anyone stepped forward.

[@tommyatkins2527]

Saville had mates in high places

[@IndigoXYZ18]

My mother's side of the family is rumored to have decended from one of King Edward the VII's bastards. Am less skeptical of this claim after watching this video...

[@westbrit1020]

It is a very common Theory , so much so that the character Vera in coronation street was given the belief as a long running gag it gives dubious births a bit of glamour . Lloyd George was the runner up candidate hence the song ''Lloyd-George knew my father''

[@rebeccag8589]

Jerry Lee Lewis - married his first cousin once removed who was also 13 at the time, I believe? And he was technically still married (to his second wife) when he married his cousin, so they had to marry again. I believe he had 6 wives in total.

[@MrJakeKale]

"Hands" Christian Andersen.

[@1025paper]

🤣🤣🤣

[@adreabrooks11]

This comment wins! XD

[@phoneboxchicken4108]

One fact about the Marquis De Sade was he was in the Bastille in 1789, but was moved out before the revolution because he kept shouting obscenities at passers by through the pipe used as a toilet.

[@marilynmichellestrong-koon5188]

"Seminal contributions". I see what you did there, and I like it. 😂

[@needaman66]

Open your mouth

[@marilynmichellestrong-koon5188]

@@needaman66 Nah. I develop random TMJ issues for anyone but my partner. 🤭

[@voxveritas333]

@@marilynmichellestrong-koon5188 bazinga!

[@tstuff]

Lewis Carroll had uncomfortably close relationships with a few families filled with underage girls. One, named Alice, was considered the influence for his best known character. He was also a prolific photographer and at the time had a few thousand photos, which was considerable compared to other photographers. While many were destroyed after his death there are a few that include young girls in revealing outfits so there is speculation the destroyed photos were even more revealing and offer a view into his darker side.

[@BotanicManic1]

I almost feel like the last one was skipped over because that’s not even brushing the surface with how horrible a person he was. It’s hard to stomach all the evil he was capable of

[@gigil.s4794]

Just love listening to you. I get to nerd out and learn about history. Thanks!!!

[@Roscoe911]

Did he say “Hands” Christian Anderson?

[@TASIAawful1]

Roscoe911 lolol 😂😂😂

[@bensonstein3993]

Yes, right after the magician- David Cop-a-feel.

[@GoDamnWeird]

I know I did. Still laughing about it!

[@Carewolf]

Even calling him Hans Chistrian is like calling Bill Gates, William. It might be his given name, but no one in Denmark, would ever call him Hans Christian except possible his mother. Danes, even his family and closests friends called him H.C. even out loud.

[@kimberleysmith818]

In fairness in the British accent saying Hans or Hands is basically Exactly the same. There is the slightest subtle difference that can be missed

[@averyregen]

i can't fall asleep unless I listen to this nice man say horrible things with his soothing voice.

[@tstuff]

Elvis Presley was into teenage girls.

[@Marquia777]

Elvis was into his cousin

[@gore4332]

I think the case is more that teenage girls were into Elvis...

[@lynnhoffman247]

So was/is Ted Nugent

[@amristar736]

Because girls liked his pelvis

[@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat]

All straight men would like to be into teenage girls. They're perverts if they're not.

[@Offgridkayaking]

Love your work. Really informative and do interesting..

[@toniannpellington3966]

Caligula sounds like Joffrey but Caligula actually reigned longer

[@ladyi7609]

For real! I wonder if GRRM used Caligula as an inspiration for Joffrey.

[@bishopp14]

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking!!

[@evildwagon7118]

Joffrey's actor also looks very similar to Caligula

[@johnsaunders2109]

And actually existed !!!!

[@pattersoncurse1023]

Bill "have a cigar" Clinton. Woody Allen.

[@johnmarston3682]

Did you like smoking his cigar

[@johnmarston3682]

@Esperanza Lastarria that's right. I'd love to get head from you

[@jamiefreeman4452]

Woody Allen is not proven guilty

[@johnmarston3682]

@@jamiefreeman4452 but definitely proven to be creepy and weird

[@jamiefreeman4452]

No I think he's one the best acters out there and it's easy too tarnish someone's name it's not really fair . Innocent till proven guilty

[@faithhouck2907]

Loved this video as I love all your others! Thank you again for the enjoyment!

[@nunyabiznez6381]

Turns out my father, unbeknownst to my mother, was a little bit of a pervert though as far as I could ascertain, he kept his perversions to himself and explored them strictly through reading up on the topic. Since he was not famous, no one but my mother cared and since his eyes never wandered, I don't think she cared much. In 1918 my father went to France. In 1919 after the war ended his unit commander began letting the troops have a little time off rotating them a few at a time for a few days of R&R most of which occurred in Paris. He liked old books so he visited some of he book shops that survived the war. This much I have verified with receipts and stationary that he brought back but I will get to that in a moment. Years after my parents died and in fact some years after I inherited the house that I grew up in which was also the house my father and grandfather were born in and also grew up in, I did some renovation work or rather restoration work that necessitated partially demolishing a wall in his library. The wall turned out to be about two feet thick with a huge space inside. I discovered that there was in fact a secret access panel but not until I tore down the wall. Inside were boxes, an old army foot locker and paper bags filled with all manner of books, magazines and personal items. A great many items were in French and a great many were quite old. Some were dated to the late 18th century and some were undated but based on the printing style and condition looked to be from about the same period. Not being a speaker or reader of French I sought the advice of an acquaintance who could in fact interpret French for me. She briefly skimmed some of the loose pagers and documents and glanced at some of the books and announced that my father had bought a significant amount of old literature and other items from several shops in Paris in 1919 and that he was a monstrous pervert. She adamantly refused to translate any further and suggested I burn the lot. Well the foot locker itself contained my father's dough boy uniform, medals, mess kit, personal items and his Browning 1918 rifle and I have no idea how he snuck that across the pond because I was under the impression that they were not for keeping but for only using while on the battle field but then I'm not a military historian. So that I was keeping. I was on the fence about the rest but I don't like being told what to do so I ignored her advice and sought out the help of an older gentleman of French extraction who was a little more open minded. He was a Jesuit priest. I invited him over to my library where I had the material spread out on my table for him to examine. Now I had noticed that some of the works were profusely illustrated with some rather explicit and perverted engravings of surprisingly high qualities. I believe some would cause Larry Flint to blush had he seen them. My friend the Jesuit did a lot of "hmmming" and "ahaaahhing" and some "OH My's!" and then informed me that I had a more or less complete collection of the works of the Marquis de Sade along with those of several of his French and ironically a couple of his German contemporaries. But then he explained that according to some of the documents, these were likely author copies based on the notations in some of the margins of the books and documents. One hand written manuscript of about 80 pages that included a handful of crude but explicit sketches he explained he guessed was an unpublished story written by De Sade. So I sought additional advice from a professor of 18th century French literature that he recommended who then hooked me up with an antiquarian book seller that specialized in "libertine literature." It appears that my grandfather's receipts and documents along with some older documents included all point to this having been a collection of items that came down in the de Sade family and had been auctioned off sometime late in the 19th century to one of the Parisian book sellers my father had visited. He had paid a relatively low sum of 15 francs for the lot, considerably less than the book seller paid a couple of decades earlier in a Paris auction. I asked the book seller what he thought the value was today (30 years ago) and he informed me that it might perhaps fetch around $1500 US for it though he also said that was only if I burned about 75% of the collection and tear out some of the engravings from some of the books which in his opinion no auction house would touch. As for the original manuscript, he confirmed for me that it was in de Sade's handwriting and authenticated it for me then said I would never be able to sell it due the content since nobody would want it. I did not follow his advice. It seems that after over 200 years some of his published works have never been translated into English. That book seller offered to translate them for me and as he did he gave me some updates. He expressed the opinion that although de Sade had a unique insight and popularity in some circles, was an atrocious writer and doubts many people have actually ever read his completes works. I am of those few people now that I have had the previously untranslated works translated. The only price I had to pay was a small 18th century document with de Sade's signature on it that I let him keep. He has it framed in an ornate antique frame on the wall behind the counter in his shop. I had several of his autographs so I didn't think it a particularly high price. After reading his works I have concluded that the shop keeper is correct about the quality of his writing. Reading his work is tedious at best. In some of his works it is clear he has a one track mind. Poop! It seems that was all he thought about 90% of the time. While he did have some rather violent and sadistic fantasies, his main interest seems to have been poop. He went to great length describing infinite myriad of things that he thought one could do with poop in every conceivable variation repeating the same over used florid and unimaginative phraseology ad nauseam ad infinitum. His great talent wasn't making people sick from reading the most disgusting words ever written in the French language but rather his great talent was his ability to bore people to death. Even the most avid pervert with an unquenchable thirst for perverted literature, and I use the word literature very loosely, would unlikely be able to complete reading any of his longer work due to being induced into a narcoleptic state in a few minutes. I doubt any of those who prosecuted him or analyzed him, if you could call what they did in French prisons at that time analysis, ever read past the first chapter. But someone needs to preserve his writings. I don't claim to have everything he ever wrote or published as there may be something I missed but I think I have come close. I don't claim to have every document or book he ever owned but rather a tiny fraction of his vast collection but I do have many key items. I have one book that he wrote his name in as a youngster that is richly illustrated with early 18th century engravings. The book is a history of corporal punishment and various forms of torture. It was a gift from his uncle who was an abbot though it is unclear if that abbot was an actual priest though usually they were. The illustrations are for the most part quite explicit, violent and most of the victims are naked. The perfect gift for an adolescent and impressionable boy. This was shortly after de Sade's father ran off and abandoned the family. Later on de Sade was repeatedly abused and tortured by the headmaster of a private school he was sent to. I have also a sketch by de Sade, it was a crude sketch and and explicit one apparently drawn around 1755 when de Sade would have been around 15 years old. it is of such a nature that if I described it here I would most likely lose my KZbin account permanently. In many countries such a description made public would earn me a lengthy prison sentence. Fortunately my attorney's inform me that owning my collection is perfectly legal though just barely so in a couple of instances. De Sade's position in this video is well earned. The use of his name in modern context as mentioned in this video is a it should be. He wasn't the first sadist but he perfected sadism.

[@originalotto7126]

Helluva story.

[@miamiannaysha3210]

Nobody got time for that

[@magicmoonart]

I had to get my text to speech agent to read all that off for me

[@AyeshaRahmanAmbia]

Wow, this should be known

[@helenafranzen9828]

Thanks for sharing this interesting story. There is generally no smoke without fire and some people (not necessarily men) are really deranged in their minds and actions. Worse still is that many of these could go on for so long thanks to being royal or aristocrats. If De Sade would have been a farmer he would have been executed on an early stage.

[@NikkiMKarLen]

Pervy Uncle Cleve.

[@maxheadroom3839]

Nikki M. Solis At least he waited for her to grow up I suppose. Hopefully that was the case.

[@simplykoko9033]

Max Headroom still disgusting

[@simplykoko9033]

Max Headroom as someone who’ve had “uncles” say they “loved the way your arse looked as a kid”. Way after I was grown... I find that he waited seriously disgusting. I’m sure he had some disgusting things about her going on in his sick head.

[@Toywins]

@@maxheadroom3839 she sounds slightly "groomed" to me. Uncle Cleve was gross!

[@zelamorre1126]

It sounds like CS Lewis could've kept Rosseau very happy.

[@johnsaunders2109]

I think they were more concerned with women when it came to Spanking- and what's wrong with that?

[@arvesto]

4:00 accidental burials were more abundant back in the day, seems like a valid fear to me. "Hey I'm sleeping not dead, don't bury me"

[@DeputatKaktus]

Interesting.... The character Granny Weatherwax (of Discworld fame) also likes to hold a note saying „I aten‘t dead!“ too keep people from burying her while she sends her mind wandering.

[@elitesrdividingus5827]

I must have no imagination. I can't figure out what goes where on that king's sex chair.

[@FaunaturaleOG]

It's shaped in a way that the lady could be in doggy style comfortably (there were gold plates for the feet to rest on), allowing rougher sex with less excursion. Hope that helps! 😅

[@jamespettyjohn4330]

There are spots for two women, not just one???!!!!

[@jamespettyjohn4330]

@@FaunaturaleOG he said it was for two women as well.......

[@FaunaturaleOG]

@@jamespettyjohn4330 the more the merrier haha

[@jamespettyjohn4330]

@@FaunaturaleOG indeed!! Pleasures of the flesh, in general, should be just that! I'll look and see if the blueprint is anywhere online.....

[@ThomasHarding1990]

People depress me.

[@loreeanthony8503]

me three... 😕

[@lightbulb8587]

Me four

[@TheHorsebox2]

Hmm...

[@piercedsiren]

That gives a new light to my lessons about the enlightenment period ...

[@therugburnz]

My Great Grandmother married at 13yrs. Since her future husband's family would have objected she and her parents lied and said she was 14yrs. All I know about his age is that he was over 18yrs (probably 21) and they were happily married for at least 4 decades. Only she, he and their parents knew of their true ages. She confessed to her ' young love ' three days prior to her death when she also had to admit she was only 102yrs and not 103yrs. It seems young marriage was not looked down upon, depending on family blessings.

[@lasseweis8717]

Elvis. Was married with a 14 year old

[@po-qo7vd]

@RUFUS T. FIREFLY Elvis Presley met Priscilla Beaulieu when she was just 14 years old. He was 10 years older, and already a rock 'n' roll superstar. The two married in 1967 after a nearly eight-year courtship

[@lasseweis8717]

@SkyCop Wife That doesn't make it right. Dating a 14 year old as a like 40 year ind man

[@lasseweis8717]

@@dukadarodear2176 Doesn't make it right just Because we have done it for a long time. My great- grand parents, they were married when they were 20 years old. My Grand parents at 25 years old. (In the 60's) It wasn't acceptabel in the 60-80's to marry a 14 year old in the west

[@dukadarodear2176]

@@lasseweis8717 Of course it wasn't 'right' to be married at a young age especially not at 14. My neighbour was married at 16 in the 1920's and she became the Matriarch of a very large and successful family. She travelled all over the globe visiting her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and even great great grandchildren. Place and time was a big factor. Slavery and indentured servitude in the colonies was widely practiced but to state that fact is Not to say that it was "Right".

[@lasseweis8717]

@@dukadarodear2176 In the 20's it was "right" but in the 70's-80's is wasn't

[@mevirosteck]

I don't think all of them are perverts...some of them yeah, but about half of them are just into stuff other than missionary

[@HopeGardner3amed]

True and one is asexual

[@donashcroft93]

Yea this is just kink shaming

[@HopeGardner3amed]

the iron way inappropriate question

[@F1rstp3rson]

I am into threesomes. Love it so much. 2 Girls 1 Man or 2 Man and 1 Girl doesn't, matter. Both are great.

[@aky19832001]

Mary me. Swiftly.

[@Angel-yl1ck]

Amazing amount of interesting facts. Loved it.

[@ChristopherNealBUSHIDO49ERS]

Wow! This was informative and crazy!

[@lorenzoboyd6889]

"...corridor creeping..." That's a nicely-turned euphemistic phrase.

[@RandomDudeOne]

Grover Cleveland, second to the Marquis de Sade. LOL.

[@pooperscooper9176]

So pleased I found your channel so eloquently put

[@lucretiamaggio6154]

Not only was this topic interesting, but I appreciated that the host did not make puns or turn it into a salacious joke. Also, some of the content was new information for me, which is sometimes rare in these videos.

[@damianwojtaszek531]

So you are telling me that Henry VIII got catfished by a photo? So that is not a new thing for men 😂❤

[@leslie4814]

Marquis De Sade - the king of “perversion” A.K.A. SADISM. So glad you discussed this. Lol

[@sydIRISH]

Elizabeth Bathory? Anyone? Oh....she's a woman. Can't bring her name up.

[@MarliAnguisette]

@@sydIRISH They already have a video on how evil she was.

[@f.c-a]

i love your work your awesome thank you so much for what you do ...

[@chrissirvid5845]

Always interesting and informative 👍

[@kylethesavage5543]

Ur the best Simon, Great vid, thankx!!

[@hollyerorabaugh4406]

Hey simon!! Love your videos!

[@marilynproctor3485]

I enjoy the fact that you speak English in the way it was intended. Like your subject matter always🤗

[@bala9257]

The narration is impeccable and easy to understand.

[@jonnda]

15:02 This is kinda like the musical Gigi. You know, the one with the song "thank heaven for little girls"

[@barryhornby3303]

Not to excuse his behavior, but I don't believe that CS Lewis became a Christian until he was 33 years old.

[@justinmeasday8930]

Barry Hornby As I understand it, his life was profoundly changed.

[@tyrant-den884]

What is to excuse? He liked whips and got drunk once.

[@barryhornby3303]

Tyrant-Den I think most people back then, and to some extent now, would consider it wrong for an 18 year old Shack-up with a 45 year old. The reason why this significant for CS Lewis, it's because of the clear contrast to his later Christian beliefs.

[@tyrant-den884]

Barry Hornby does nothing to excuse his still pretty innocent behavior.

[@ViveMeorLeti]

To the degree there is anything taboo about an 18 year old and a 45 year old having a relationship, the "guilty" party is going to be the 45 year old, not the teenager (even more so back then, because women's sexuality was generally frowned upon no matter what they did with it). Also, no relationship between them has ever been confirmed, and the only source quoted was the theory of a single friend.

[@minamartinez8131]

Great, now my search history is going to look crazy again

[@m.f.richardson1602]

Thank you

[@Local.Motion]

Stiflers mom has got it goin on..

[@daroniussubdeviant3869]

i often wondered why they called mr anderson hands.

[@lylakittie139]

I love your videos, I've been binging them for the last three days. This title, though...Almost makes it sound like they're Historically Important for BEING perverts hahahaa :D I was expecting Marquis du Sade and CS Lewis...

[@opeeate]

yay you have a podcast! I can listen longer now, KZbin drains my data which costs heaps in oz.

[@onandonitgoes5957]

Caligula sounds like he had a bit of brain damage from that poisoning

[@McSynth]

" King Edward VII - King of England ? That would have come as news to the Scottish and Welsh taxpayers who were also forced keep the parasite in the style to which he imagined he was entitled.

[@elbertderf803]

exceptional as usual, thanks. an old History teacher told us that chanting: "ma ma wheres my pa? he went to the White House ha ha ha" was a popular chant.

[@PaulDebaecker]

Rousseau is also the man who wrote a treaty on education, but abandonned his five childs as soon as they were born

[@myspiderungoliant]

I’ve heard plenty of theories that Caligula wasn’t poisoned but had his brain damaged by syphilis, and that was what drove him nuts.

[@barbaralatham3584]

Eric Barney Syphilis hadn’t arrived in Europe during Caligula’s lifetime.

[@HyperionaSilverleaf]

It was lead poisoning and being preyed upon by his sadistic grandfather.

[@utasenpai4915]

Dam!

[@utasenpai4915]

@@HyperionaSilverleaf yeah ! Thats possible too . His pe! paw was a nasty freakazoid !

[@patrickkobolt3069]

It was encephalitis.

[@MrKeeganimal]

WHERE IS JAMES JOYCE AND HIS LOVE OF FARTS AND DEFECATION

[@Ashaliyeva]

Skreamie 🤣🤣🤣 I almost forgot all about that! Thank you for reminding me, LOL!

[@ZoeyKirituOfficial]

😂😂😂😂

[@loisdahl3847]

Thanks!

[@sillycrow3834]

I’m a new sub 👍 love the videos! I’m binge-watching them and just made it to the pervert section ! Omg ...Creeepy!

[@jessewilson8676]

How about putting the profit Mohammed on this list

[@christineparis5607]

jesse wilson Only if you spell, "prophet" correctly...

[@vipertact]

Ha! Don't you know only westerners are held to these standards

[@bencockayne4723]

Because Charlie Chaplin existed...

[@jessewilson8676]

christine paris if so KZbin would have flagged it and would have been deleted thought about it before hitting enter. So the spelling was intentional.

[@gregb6469]

KZbin has a problem with the word "prophet"?

[@cagrant4472]

"Maw, Maw, Where's my Paw?" "Gone to the White House, haw, haw haw!" --- Frequently heard chant when Grover Cleveland was running for President, and after his election. Also he was so fat he had to have a special bathtub made to fit him. He really did have an illegetimate child, which was very scandalous for the period.

[@carolkeenan6488]

I believe it was Taft who had the bathtub made to accomadate his extra waight. Carol Keenan

[@mistressfuhrer2756]

I've subscribed to all of your channels. Well, I think I did 😜

[@anttr4601]

Historically important perverts sounds like a great band name lol

[@beastofdarknesss5822]

Great video i didn't know a few of these

[@sciencefirst7032]

Caligula's real name was...Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus. Caligula means "little boots" in Latin. A nickname given to him by soldiers of the 9th legion. He would not have been called Caligula when he came to power.

[@joshglover2370]

Grover Cleveland: I'm the most perverted president ever! Bill Clinton: Hold my cigar tube! 🤣🤣🤣

[@wedgeantilles4712]

If TopTenz actually do a video on a person that is alive and is able to defend his or their claims. I would be f***ing surprised.

[@CaseAgainstFaith1]

Simon did a video on Trump, like 5 years ago. He’s still alive.