Bill Cosby (Photo : Reuters)
Upon turning 50 in 1987, Bill Cosby released a book titled "Time Flies," in which he wrote he was not that into sex anymore. This was a year after he allegedly abused Barbara Bowman, who was then 18, in a Reno hotel room.
"Sex at my age has become exhausting," Cosby wrote. "Just as I no longer can go one-on-one in basketball the way I once did, I also lack the stamina to go one-on-one in bed the way I did in my salad days."
In "Time Flies," Cosby explained that he was "actually in tune with the times" and mentioned the revelation of recent surveys then that most women would rather cuddle than have sex and he was "the Clark Gable of cuddlers."
Recently, "Braveheart" producer Alan Ladd Jr.'s wife and former Hollywood executive Cindra Ladd joined the group of women accusing Cosby of drugging or rape.
In a first-person essay published on the Huffington Post on Jan. 26, Monday, Ladd said Cosby drugged and raped her in 1969. She claimed she met the comedian when she was 21 and single and was working in New York City for the late film producer Ray Stark.
While Cosby was then 32 and married, Ladd said she became friendly with him and he acted like a "perfect gentleman" at first.
According to Ladd, she has crossed paths with Cosby only once in the years since the night he raped her. That was the time when her husband introduced her to him.
"I was shaking, wondering if he would recognize me by my unusual first name. His reaction spoke volumes," Ladd wrote. "To Bill Cosby, I was just another stranger."
