Simone de Beauvoir’s sex life
Next week will be the centenary of Simone de Beauvoir’s birth so The Guardian takes a look at the French writer’s sex life. I’m sure the French don’t give a hoot about what she and Jean-Paul did, but the British are certainly interested.
De Beauvoir’s partnership with the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre has been called the “original open relationship” - one of France’s most celebrated and unconventional intellectual couplings. They met in 1929 and never married but devoted themselves to each other while agreeing they should be free to engage in sexual and emotional entanglements with others - as long as they shared the details.
