However, as an investigative journalist who has spent a great part of her career writing about all aspects of sex and sexuality, and as an author who has published three nonfiction books on sex—What Makes a Woman G.I.B.* (*Good in Bed), What Makes a Man G.I.B.* (*Good in Bed), and The Infidelity Report—I’ve been fortunate enough to meet and become inspired by many sexual revolutionaries, icons of sex, and sexual adventurers. Some were well versed in BDSM, some in commercial sex, and most of them were willing to talk to me about their proclivities in depth. Much of what they told me, and the essence of who they were as human beings, has infused the texture of the Unraveled trilogy. These include Dr. Wardell Pomeroy, the sexologist who worked with Dr. Alfred Kinsey on his seminal research; Gore Vidal, who was one of Kinsey’s subjects; Marilyn Chambers, the Ivory Snow girl who starred in the groundbreaking Behind the Green Door, and her then-husband, Chuck Traynor, former husband of Deep Throat’s Linda Lovelace and the man who taught her how to give oral sex; Harry Reems, Linda’s costar in Deep Throat; John Holmes, the genetically gifted porno star who was the prototype for Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights; Sir Dai Llewellyn, the Old Etonian baronet who was vocal to me about his passion for what was once known as le vice anglais; Vicki Morgan, Alfred Bloomingdale’s S&M mistress who interviewed me as the potential ghostwriter for her book, and whose revelations propelled alternative sex into the headlines.
