Why should we take advice on sex from the Pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
George Bernard Shaw

In « Popes and the Sex. From Saint Peter to Benedict XVI », Eric Frattini goes through the biographies of the top officials in the Catholic Church, the Popes, through the most controversial and hidden aspect of their lives : Sex.
In his new astonishing and daring essay, the author introduces us to the papal rooms where stories of conspiracy, vice and sex were carried out in the name of God, from the first Popes to the current Benedict XVI. Throughout the centuries, Popes have not always been the honourable representatives of their religion as they were supposed to be, and many times they have been responsible for murders, rapes, incest, sadism, pederasty, zoophilia, etc.
In this book, Eric Frattini recounts the life of the main Popes lovers, like Olympia Maidalchini, known as the « Pompadour » of the Papal Court, who became head of the Vatican espionage in the 17th Century. He also goes into the lives of homosexual Popes, married Popes, and those overthrown for being libertines, alcoholics, sodomites and rapists of nuns and children.
A unique document about the best-hidden Vatican secrets, which will certainly bring expectancy and controversy, by one of the best specialized investigative journalists in this field.
 

Published by Espasa-Calpe, Spain, January 2010