What’s Your Favorite San Francisco Sex Scandal?
Posted By jss on May 28, 2009
Kevin Fagan of the San Francisco Chronicle has a great story today:
San Francisco’s Top 10 sex scandals
You might think that there would be gay sex scandals, given San Francisco’s reputation. But there are not.
My favorite is the Cable Car Nymph, from 1964:
It was supposed to be a routine trip on the Hyde Street cable car in 1964, the 29-year-old woman said. But when the car lurched and she was heaved against a pole, the collision “somehow unleashed emotions hidden deep in the dark closet of her mind,” The Chronicle reported – and thus was born “The cable car nymphomaniac” who took a trip on the “Cable Car Named Desire.”
The woman sued Muni for $500,000 six years later, saying her injuries had triggered an insatiable sexual desire that drove her to take 100 lovers, leaving her perpetually unsatisfied. Reporters left her name out of news accounts, to protect her privacy, referring to her instead by her nickname, or as “the buxom blonde” from Michigan. She was awarded $50,000 by a jury, whose members said they hoped she would use it for counseling.
I’m not saying it’s the best, biggest scandal. It’s just my favorite.
"Into Temptation" is a usually-but-not-always safe-for-work forum about evolving social-sexual networks and how they have changed and are changing lives. It will also loosely chronicle the research, writing and publication, I hope in 2011, of a book by the same name.
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