If power is sexy, sex can also be a tool for power. King Ibn Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia, united the nation by marrying women from more than thirty of the country’s many tribes. He always had four wives, four concubines, and four female slaves at his beck and call. When one of the tribes spread rumors about the king’s decreasing virility, he paid them a visit and took the virginity of all the tribe’s young girls. He bragged that during his life he had taken the virginity of seven hundred girls.
