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The dominant moral codes of the western world were provided by the Abrahamic religions of ‘The Book’. All three took male domination as a ‘natural given’. But its ‘Ten Commandments’ say: ‘Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife’ and ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery’.1
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See Winter, G. (1981), Inside BOSS — South Africa’s Secret Police (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin), Ch. 23.
John Bowlby, Maternal Care and Mental Health (Geneva 1951) and subsequent works.
The early psychobiography by Stanley A. Renshon (1996, 1998), High Hopes — The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition (New York: New York University Press 1996 and London: Routledge 1998) gives a good insight into his character, but hardly touches upon the ‘compulsive philandering’ issue. Also see: Chs 11–14 in the book edited by CIA-expert Jerrold M. Post, pp. 271–332.
Marshall, B. (1993) Willy Brandt — Eine politische biographie (Bonn: Bouvier), Ch. 1 ‘The early years’.
Brigitte Seebacher-Brandt, Willy Brandt (München: Piper 2004).
One of the most famous harems is formed by the ‘private quarters’ in the Topkapi palace in the Turkish city of Istanbul, once the capital of the mighty Ottoman empire. Fantasies in Western art depict them as a kind of huge brothel, with scores of beautiful young women lounging naked around pools, always ready to be called into service (see Edward Said’s study on Orientalism, London: Penguin 1978). There were also widespread fears that white women would be kidnapped for sexual slavery. From Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The abduction from the seraglio) to the popular French movie Angélique et le Sultan. See Chs 6 and 7 in my film study Screening Difference.
Some of his main ‘bridges’ to the Mafia were said to have been his right hand man Marcello Dell’Utri, a Sicilian lawyer, and his ‘stable hand’ Vittorio Mangano, a Sicilian gangster on the run. Details in: Stille, A. (2006) Citizen Berlusconi, Il Cavalier miracolo — La vita, le impresse, la politica (Milano: Garzanti 2006; English translation 2007). The author was a journalist/contributor to the daily La Stampa in Italy; the New Yorker, the New York Review o f Books and the New York Times Magazine in the US. His father had in turn been an editor for the Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
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van Ginneken, J. (2014). LUST or sexual obsession. In: The Psychology of Power. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137454034_2
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