# David "Partridge Family" Cassidy - new tell-all book **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2007, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867 "2007-02-27T13:01:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/1 "2007-02-27T13:01:00Z")
And it can’t get a publisher in the U.S. apparently. See [this link](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17031911/)from [MSNBC.com](http://MSNBC.com) (it’s the second or third piece) > [@](#): > > “Could It Be Forever” tells of Cassidy’s drug use, wild sex, his infatuation with Meredith Baxter, a romp with Barbara the Butter Queen who liked to cover her sex partners with butter, and an encounter with 1950s screen star Gina Lollobrigida. > > “I’ve always been very comfortable with my sexuality and my brothers call me ‘Donk’ — as in Donkey. People have talked about me being ‘blessed’ in my physique,” Cassidy writes in the book. “The first time [I met Gina Lollobrigida] she looked me up and down and said: ‘I hear you’re a monster. I want to meet the monster.’ Well, I decided that if I had it, there wasn’t any point in just keeping it in the holster all the time.” Man, what class. :rolleyes: Way to go, Donk. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/2 "2007-02-27T13:12:11Z")
All right, 'fess up. You’re jealous. ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/3 "2007-02-27T13:16:40Z")
‘Donk’, huh? I guess if it’s a pop-up book I’m in! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/4 "2007-02-27T14:48:08Z")
I read once that his unit was refered to as a “long and slender thing.” If it’s a pop-up book, they may have to fold it. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/5 "2007-02-27T15:08:43Z")
He already covered this material in [C’mon Get Happy: Fear & Loathing On The Partridge Family Bus](http://www.amazon.com/Cmon-Get-Happy-Loathing-Partridge/dp/0446395315/sr=1-3/qid=1172588474/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/103-7591763-4150222?ie=UTF8&s=books). It says a lot about him and his overly-inflated self esteem that he thinks the world needs _two_ tell-all books about David Cassidy. I did actually read C’mon Get Happy… I don’t remember him talking about the size of his dick, though. Maybe I just forgot. Or maybe ‘Donk’ is the big revelation requiring a whole second book. The main thing I remember about the book is that David seemed like a genuine, gold-plated, thoroughly conceited asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/6 "2007-02-27T15:19:05Z")
Wow. When I was a teenager I worshipped DC. His posters littered my bedroom wall and I had all the Partridge Family records. Hell, I even owned the damned PF lunchbox. I feel so cool, now. C’mon get happy, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/7 "2007-02-27T15:25:27Z")
I have read that other Cassidy (Jack and Shaun) men were similarly “blessed.” Don’t know that it’s ever been corroborated, but I’ve never read that they denied it. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/8 "2007-02-27T15:46:04Z")
[QUOTE=Crotalus] All right, 'fess up. You’re jealous. [/QUOTE] 😃 It ain’t the size of the guitar, it’s how you strum it. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/9 "2007-02-27T16:21:51Z")
[QUOTE=WordMan] 😃 It ain’t the size of the guitar, it’s how you strum it. [/QUOTE] I have always propounded that theory as well. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/10 "2007-02-27T16:27:52Z")
[QUOTE=Crotalus] I have always propounded that theory as well. [/QUOTE] Hmmm, and yet you picked your username based on a Rattlesnake - nothing Freudian there!! 😃😃 At least “Snake” is better than Donk!! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/11 "2007-02-27T17:07:04Z")
[QUOTE=WordMan] Hmmm, and yet you picked your username based on a Rattlesnake - nothing Freudian there!! 😃😃 At least “Snake” is better than Donk!! [/QUOTE] Wasn’t Natalie’s BF in _The Facts of Life_ named “Snake”? And what’s worse – that I know this or that I rewrote the post completely because the first one somehow disappeared? ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/12 "2007-02-27T17:16:06Z")
Did you know that snakes actually have two “instruments”? ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/13 "2007-02-27T17:18:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Wasn’t Natalie’s BF in The Facts of Life named “Snake”? I don’t know about Natalie, but Laurie Partridge had a suitor named Snake (played by Rob Reiner). I rule on Partridge trivia. ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/14 "2007-02-27T17:43:29Z")
Oh my. Middle age for former teen idols is _such_ an ugly thing. ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/15 "2007-02-27T18:12:02Z")
Shut it, whippersnapper. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/16 "2007-02-27T18:32:18Z")
[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker] I have read that other Cassidy (Jack and Shaun) men were similarly “blessed.” Don’t know that it’s ever been corroborated, but I’ve never read that they denied it. [/QUOTE] Back in the day, I’d have been more than happy to confirm those rumors about Shaun. If I’d been old enough. If I’d been in the general vicinity. If I’d been asked. But other than those trivial details, I’d’ve been _so_ in. To me, he was by far the hottest thing on two legs (second only to Leif) and his brother was goofy. But judging by most aged teen idols, none of them ended up being all that, so what do I know? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/17 "2007-02-27T18:51:52Z")
Do tell, David. David Cassidy of the 1970’s show The Partridge Family shocked fans when he revealed that he once slept with his TV sister Susan Dey. He says that he was never attracted to the actress but she was so determined to get him in bed, so he finally gave in. He says that he regretted it later. He says, [“I find a certain sluttiness very attractive in a woman, and Susan just didn’t have it. She was sweetness and innocence, a good girl, and I couldn’t think of her as anything but my sister.”](http://profusion123.blogspot.com/search/label/David%20Cassidy) Kinda strikes me as all throb and no heart. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/18 "2007-02-27T19:04:47Z")
[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker] I have read that other Cassidy (Jack and Shaun) men were similarly “blessed.” Don’t know that it’s ever been corroborated, but I’ve never read that they denied it. [/QUOTE] Who was the last actor to _deny_ having a big schlong? Probably the same guy who admitted to stomping on beagle puppies. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/19 "2007-02-27T19:32:41Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Who was the last actor to _deny_ having a big schlong? [/QUOTE] (Not an actor, but still a celebrity.) Possibly Leonard Bernstein. Quoted from memory: _Deanie, Deanie, Show me your peeny, do! I’m all steamy, all for the love of you. You want to see mine? It’s teeny! But that’s 'cause I’m a sheeny. But you’re a goy, And boy oh boy, I’ll just bet that it’s built for two!_ ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867/20 "2007-02-27T22:04:30Z")
[QUOTE=Crotalus] Did you know that snakes actually have two “instruments”? [/QUOTE] Does that mean you should change your username to “ **Crotalus Donk Donk** ”?? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-partridge-family-cassidy-new-tell-all-book/393867.md?page=2)