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But another passage of the book details cocaines effect onJohns sex life.
Never a problem for me, Im afraid.
If I took enough coke I could stay hard for days.
John describes the fantasy of being on cocaine, which made him feel open to new things sexually.
It takes all the inhibitions out of people.
Even straight guys sometimes.
And his new Hollywood home, which he moved into in 1975, proved to be the perfect setting.
I mostly used the snooker room to seduce guys.
It usually seemed to do the trick, especially after a couple of lines of coke.
Yet despite his self-described sex addiction, John was never actually into fucking that much.
So what would he do?
I was an observer, a voyeur.
And thats not all.
I just watched, took Polaroids, organized things, he continues.
which tended to puncture the atmosphere a bit.
There was, somehow, a benefit to all this, John claims.
If I had been [having sex], Id almost certainly be dead.
