Wilt Chamberlain: The Greatest Sex Story on Earth

“Wilt the Stilt” was one of the greatest basketball players the world has ever known. Standing 7′ 1”, 300 lbs, he dominated the NBA in scoring, rebounding, and durability. On March 2, 1962, he scored a record 100 points against the Nicks. Later that evening he would celebrate by adding a few additional scores to his bedpost.

In his autobiography, A View From Above, Wilt claimed he’d had sex with an estimated 20,000 women (1.14 women every day, since the age of 15). Considering he was a near insomniac, he at least had time on his side. However, he later admitted to his on-and-off girlfriend, Lynda Huey, that the number might have been fudged a bit, saying, “What’s a zero between friends?”

Wilt’s personal record was 23 different women in 10 days. As his lawyer Seymour “Sy” Goldberg put it, “Some people collect stamps, Wilt collected women.” His million dollar mansion in Bel-Air, California, was famous for miniature Playboy Mansion-like parties in which he lived out his child-hood fantasies of sex with multiple women. He had a special playroom built with a wall-to-wall waterbed floor, just for such occasions.

Wilt made it clear he, himself, was never one to marry, long time friend and L.A. Times writer, David Shaw, speculated: “I always thought Wilt didn’t marry because he didn’t want to be vulnerable—his promiscuity had less to do with ego and conquest, than fear of intimacy. I know he had a lot of love to give—I know how much love he missed receiving.”

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