Lonely women living in Paris during the Nazi occupation regularly gave themselves to German officers in a great citywide sex romp, a new book claims.Patrick Buisson, the French author of 1940-1945 Annees Erotiques ("Erotic Years"), claims wives left behind in occupied Paris couldn't get enough of the young "blond barbarians".
"It is a taboo subject, a story nobody wants to hear," Buisson was quoted as saying in Britain's Sunday Times newspaper.
"It may hurt our national pride, but the reality is that people adapted to occupation."
He claims many local women became sexually transformed during harsh winters where a nightly curfew between 11pm and 5am prevented them from other activities.
A spike in the birth rate in 1942 — despite two million French men locked away in prison camps — was evidence of an often unacknowledged amorous explosion, he said.
Buisson says war acted as an aphrodisiac and prompted a new "survival instinct" to kick in as resources such as coal dwindled.
"In times of rationing, the body is the only renewable, inexhaustible currency," he said.
The author claims people often used cinemas rather than hotel rooms to have sex because they were cheaper and offered some privacy.
Publications throughout France have lambasted Buisson for his insensitive depiction of what is regarded as one of the darkest periods in the nation's history.
ninemsn 27 May 2008
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