D.C. Unmasked & Undressed is a memoir. The story of my life includes events, characters and insights related to my miserable childhood, my legal career, and my varied sexual adventures. It can be summarized as: Girl from dysfunctional family meets boy from same…
I worked hard and played hard, too. Along the way, and for several years, I was the not-so-secret lover of a sitting Supreme Court Justice who has recently published his own memoir… His name is Clarence Thomas.”
— Excerpt from the introduction, “Rules Rule”
When Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Ginni, placed a phone call to Dr. Anita Hill last fall asking for an apology for the tawdry testimony during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings that had almost torpedoed her husband’s candidacy, little did she know the extent to which the ill-advised request would only open up a can of worms.
For not only did Hill reaffirm her allegations of sexual harassment, but the rekindled controversy inspired another credible witness to step forward finally in defense of the sister.
That would be Lillian McEwen, a retired federal judge who broke a 20-year silence to announce that she’d dated Justice Thomas for many years and that her esteemed colleague and boyfriend had indeed been addicted to pornography as alleged by Hill under oath. In fact, McEwen even went further, confessing that she and Thomas had both been sex freaks back in the day, indulging in threesomes together and even copulating in front of strangers at swingers’ clubs like the legendary Plato’s Retreat.
What makes McEwen’s revelations so damning of Thomas is that at the time that they were an item, he was serving as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission at the pleasure of President Ronald Reagan.
In that capacity, ironically, Thomas was presumably the top federal official charged with fielding complaints of sexual harassment. Yet, according to his ex-lover, he hired and fired his own female staff members based on their appeal as prospective sex partners and their tolerance of his awkward advances.
Curiously, back in 1991, then-Senator Joe Biden declined McEwen’s offer to appear before the Judiciary Committee investigating Thomas. Today, she still feels that the nation would’ve been spared the arch-conservative’s serving as the swing vote on so many Supreme Court decisions had Committee Chairman Biden merely opted to allow her to testify about the “real Clarence” rather than inexplicably run interference for the embattled nominee.
Consequently, the previously promiscuous jurist has had to settle for belatedly publishing the juicy memoir D.C. Unmasked & Undressed (TitleTown Publishing, 260 pages), which blows the sheets off her lascivious liaisons with Thomas as well as a number of other District of Columbia political power brokers. The jaw-dropping tell-all is reminiscent of Karrine Steffans’ Confessions of a Video Vixen, which exposed the wanton debauchery of many a Hollywood icon.
Here, hedonistic Judge McEwen recounts raunchy romps ranging from the conventional to the kinky, including wife-swapping, threesomes, group gropes, and even a homoerotic session with a couple of brothers ostensibly on the down-low. As if on truth serum, the author almost compulsively admits to such conduct unbecoming as cheating on her first husband while she was pregnant and receiving a lap dance from a female exotic dancer in a strip club.
To her literary credit, McEwen does exhibit a romance novelist’s flair for the sensual, deftly turning a profusion of titillating euphemisms, whether she’s being “kissed into oblivion” or inducing “a symphony of soft moans” from a satisfied lover. When not imaginatively provoking readers to the point of arousal, she devotes considerable time to reflecting upon the abusive childhood that apparently triggered the insatiable, lifelong lust in her loins.
This trait might have made the similarly damaged and sex-driven Clarence Thomas her ideal mate had it not been for his right-wing political philosophy. Instead, despite his prodigious performance in the sack, McEwen regrettably decided to decline further stud service when she could no longer ignore “the speeches you give all over the country.”
She especially didn’t care for “The Republican’s” (as she referred to him) contempt for his own kind, evident in his favorite saying: “[N-words] and flies, I do despise. The more I see [N-words], the more I like flies.”
The African American community owes a debt of gratitude to Lillian McEwen for correcting the historical record with this salacious page-turner confirming most folks’ suspicions regarding a self-hating Uncle Tom whose sordid sex-capades give a whole new meaning to the phrase, “Here come da judge!”
D.C. Unmasked & Undressed is available on amazon.com.
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