# Sex Lives of Presidents
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 13, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914 "2009-07-13T23:47:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/1 "2009-07-13T23:47:45Z")
Does President Obama or formerly President Bush ever have sex with their spouses (not asking about affairs or anything of that sort) in the White House. Did either of them ever use birth control and how much privacy do they get from the Secret Service? Finally why aren’t there any trash articles about the President’s sex lives unlike almost any famous person?
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/2 "2009-07-14T00:18:30Z")
😃 “Husband and wife have sex”? Where’s the trash there?
Outside of that, there’s been more than enough trash written about Kennedy and Clinton between them to cover the 44 we’ve had and another 450 after that.
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### Author:  [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/3 "2009-07-14T00:22:16Z")
> [@Curtis LeMay](#):
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> Finally why aren’t there any trash articles about the President’s sex lives unlike almost any famous person?
Seems about 11 years ago there were a whole boatload of articles regarding a certain President’s sex life. There was some impeachment thingy about what he had to say about it too. Personally, I’d rather not return to that kind of in-depth, day in day out examination of any president’s sex life.
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### Author:  [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/4 "2009-07-14T00:22:23Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#):
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> 😃 “Husband and wife have sex”? Where’s the trash there?
Well things like “What birth control they use” or “What sex positions they have” or “What exotic sexual practices they use” that sort of thing.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/5 "2009-07-14T00:30:53Z")
> [@Curtis LeMay](#):
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> Well things like “What birth control they use” or “What sex positions they have” or “What exotic sexual practices they use” that sort of thing.
Where are you seeing stories like that about other husbands and wives? Outside of publicity whores (Britney Spears, Gene Simmons, etc.)?
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### Author:  [@Animastryfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Animastryfe)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/6 "2009-07-14T00:32:14Z")
> [@Curtis LeMay](#):
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> Well things like “What birth control they use” or “What sex positions they have” or “What exotic sexual practices they use” that sort of thing.
How would tabloids know? The only people who would likely be privy to this sort of thing (and even then I doubt it) would be the secret service, and they aren’t the sort to talk to tabloids.
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/7 "2009-07-14T00:34:11Z")
> [@Curtis LeMay](#):
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> Well things like “What birth control they use” or “What sex positions they have” or “What exotic sexual practices they use” that sort of thing.
Who is going to know enough to be the source? The Secret Service has the first part of its name for a reason. They will even protect the President’s privacy even when it comes to scandals like getting blow jobs in the Oval Office let alone routine lifestyle issues for any POTUS. Medical privacy laws protect all Americans from disclosure about what they get at the pharmacy from being blabbed so, anyone stupid enough to leak that, would be in major trouble especially if it is the POTUS.
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### Author:  [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/8 "2009-07-14T00:38:29Z")
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> At one time, the President and Vice-President were given three-inch-high models of the Washington Monument to put beside their beds. They had simply to knock them over to summon the guards.
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> But the models were abandoned after Vice-President Dan Quayle - noted for being clumsy - knocked his over late one night while making love to his wife.
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> In seconds, the door burst open, the lights went on and Mrs Quayle was thrown out of bed to the floor as bodyguards flocked around her husband to ensure his safety.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/9 "2009-07-14T00:40:48Z")
And let the “why Dan Quayle _really_ wanted the 3-inch phallus taken out of the bedroom he shared with his wife” jokes begin …
😃
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/10 "2009-07-14T00:56:36Z")
Laura looked to me like she had Needs.
Michelle, I dunno so much. Seems more like the Get Your Hands Offa Me I’m Busy type.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/11 "2009-07-14T02:17:27Z")
I’d take that Quayle article with a grain of salt. It mentioned the Obamas having access to the presidential yacht USS _Sequoia_, but Carter sold it in 1977 and it’s been in private hands ever since.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/12 "2009-07-14T02:27:05Z")
You youngsters! If you want to talk about presidential sex, just ask Betty Ford.
[QUOTE=Wikipedia]
In 1975, in an interview with McCall’s magazine, Ford said that she was asked just about everything, except for how often she and the president had sex. “And if they’d asked me that I would have told them,” she said, adding that her response would be, “As often as possible.”[5] . . . and the new First Lady pointedly stated that she and the President shared the same bed during a televised White House tour.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/13 "2009-07-14T02:56:56Z")
> [@](#):
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> Michelle, I dunno so much. Seems more like the Get Your Hands Offa Me I’m Busy type.
I dunno about that… They certainly seen to show enough affection for each other in public. I’d imagine that they have a healthy husband-wife relationship, with all that goes with that. And, of course, Sasha and Malia weren’t delivered by the stork.
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### Author:  [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/14 "2009-07-14T03:05:21Z")
The David McCullough biography of Harry Truman has an anectode about the presidential bed breaking, and Bess sheepishly telling the staff it needed to be fixed.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/15 "2009-07-14T03:32:23Z")
> [@Curtis LeMay](#):
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> Does President Obama or formerly President Bush ever have sex with their spouses (not asking about affairs or anything of that sort) in the White House.(sic)
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
You registered to ask this?
😕
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### Author:  [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/16 "2009-07-14T03:49:05Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
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> You registered to ask this?
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> 😕
Hey, when you got a little urge you gotta take care of it before it becomes a big urge. Know what I mean? 😉
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### Author:  [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/17 "2009-07-14T12:48:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> I’d take that Quayle article with a grain of salt. It mentioned the Obamas having access to the presidential yacht USS _Sequoia_, but Carter sold it in 1977 and it’s been in private hands ever since.
Its the Mirror, I think it goes without saying to take it with a grain of salt.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/18 "2009-07-14T13:12:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> I’d take that Quayle article with a grain of salt. It mentioned the Obamas having access to the presidential yacht USS _Sequoia_, but Carter sold it in 1977 and it’s been in private hands ever since.
But it has been used by Presidents since. See [this.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_yacht) OTOH, I think that is via charter which is not really the same as “available”. But it could be that the owners give the current Pres a break in order to add an aura to the thing.
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/19 "2009-07-14T22:39:24Z")
even with separate bedrooms, mrs kennedy did become pregnant in the white house. it did not end well.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Love)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-lives-of-presidents/502914/20 "2009-07-14T23:24:27Z")
I belive that [Fox News](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neCIg0BiXbE) has the answer.
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