Before the war, as well as after, Kennedy’s dreams of adventure and conquest found an outlet in sex, a sport he appeared to pursue with obsessive devotion. In the spring of 1943 Kennedy was only twenty-five years old, but he had already conducted affairs with a seeming multitude of women—so far their numbers included a fashion model, an actress, an heiress, students, and members of the European aristocracy. His adventures have variously been interpreted as evidence of compulsive risk taking and an obsessive search for the maternal intimacy that was withheld from him as a boy, or they may have
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