Iceberg Slim was a pimp for over five hundred women and is author of the book Pimp and many others. When I phoned, a deep voice said, "Hello, this is Iceberg, Iceberg Slim. My blood curdled and I nearly cancelled the interview except that I didn't dare. Iceberg greeted me with a handshake outside his house, then took me inside to a decidedly domestic tea with his wife and four children.
--Wendy Leigh, What Makes a Woman Good In Bed 1977
The title of the article struck me as I was reading Iceberg Slim: The Lost Interviews. It's a casual read that I've been meaning to get to for a while and have finally made progress on now that I have loads of time for self-development and finding my interests.
Published six years after her interview with Iceberg Slim, in 1983, the book is based primarily off of the interview that she had with him and possibly others.
I haven't read the book by Wendy Leigh, but I suspect that it has some quality as he influenced her thinking on the subject. Here are a couple excerpts from the interview that are in the book:
The sexual peak is prior to the menopause for most women, the golden age for a woman to be good in bed. But age is less marketable than youth. Whores are good for acrobatics and slavish devotion - they make the best mechanics. When I say slavish devotion - a whore won't really do anything, but she still leaves you with the impression that she has done everything - because whores use their hands, their feet, their voices - they are like quicksilver.
I like a woman to come to me bringing a reputation for wicked eroticism. Not that she is a pushover, but that she is always free (unlike a whore) to choose whoever she goes to bed with, and that no one forces her or owns her. There is a kind of choreography of sex that matters. Some women, after they have had sex with your about the third time, have the aptitude to mesh with you. Everything is fluid as you move her through the vrious sexual positions with the pressure of your fingertips, or even the voice. She flows with you.
If you decide to purchase the book and read it then drop a review.
I'll be purchasing that book soon and will give a review after I'm done.