TALES FROM THE CRAPPER

Rasputin

The sex-mad monk Rasputin (the name is Russian for "debauchee") was leader of a pseudo-religious cult called Khlysky, which carried out orgies of bloody self-mutilation followed by mass copulation. Rasputin is said to have bedded every female aristocrat in St Petersburg (including in all probability, the Czarina herself) more than once, even though he smelled like an open sewer. He didn't believe in bathing and often went for months without washing even his hands or face, offering the excuse that water sapped his libido. Rasputin's body odor was so bad that women literally bathed themselves in perfume before sleeping with him to try to overpower it.




From The Giant Bathroom Reader