- Wilt Chamberlain claimed to have slept with 20,000 different women in his lifetime.
- People began calling him names and expressing pity for his lifestyle,
- Wilt’s sexual success sparked concerns about his public persona.
Wilt Chamberlain claimed to have slept with 20,000 different women in his lifetime. Rod Roddewig, a contemporary of Wilt’s, related a story about how the renowned basketball player came up with the number in the book “Wilt: Larger Than Life.”
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The aftermath of Wilt’s passage of 20,000 women
When Chamberlain revealed how many women he had slept with, the public’s opinion of the basketball legend shifted.
People began calling him names and expressing pity for his lifestyle,
which had made him “a reference for sexual braggadocio.”
However, Wilt claims that this was not his intention.
I am not bragging. All of this lovemaking does not strike me as a form of conquering.
The idea of using the number [twenty thousand] was to demonstrate that sex was as important to me as basketball was to me. That is why I was single.
Wilt Chamberlain: Bigger Than Life
A little more than a month after Chamberlain’s book, “A View From Above,” was published,
another great black athlete, Earvin Magic Johnson, surprised the world by revealing he was HIV positive.
The general public condemned two superstars for their publicized promiscuity.
Wilt’s relatives and friends, on the other hand, defended him, saying that “the passage was a throwaway line that Wilt included to raise publicity for the book.”
They also accused the publisher of coercing Wilt into inserting it.
How did Wilt come up with the figure of 20,000?
In any event, The Big Dipper publicly confessed that sex was a big part of his life.
He enjoyed being among women and was always a true gentleman, lavishing compliments on everyone.
“If a gorgeous woman walked by, he’d stop in the middle of a conversation,” Chamberlain’s friend Fluke Fluker claimed.
“He’d either gaze at her or make a remark to whoever he was talking to.”
And it wasn’t a crude, vulgar, or offensive remark. Or he’d approach the woman and praise her on her appearance in a polite, courteous manner.
“I just wanted you to know you’re looking extremely gorgeous today,” he’d add. And I wanted to make sure you were aware of it.”
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Wilt’s chivalry was attested to by Rod Roddewing, another contemporaneous.
Before coming to Hawaii in the mid-1980s, he met the NBA superstar.
He was also present when Chamberlain concocted his famed “twenty-thousand women” myth while the two were staying at Wilt’s condominium in Honolulu.
“We stayed for ten days.” “I recorded everything on my Daytimer,” Roddewig explained.
“I would write a check in my book every time he went to bed with a different girl.”
There were 23 checks after 10 days. That works out to 2.3 girls per day.
To be prudent, he took 2.3 and divided it in half.
Then he subtracted 15 from his current age, increased that by 1.2 women every day, and arrived at twenty thousand.”
Wilt’s sexual success sparked concerns about his public persona.
What most people saw as a boastful attempt, Chamberlain saw as a deeper look into his life, one in which sex played a significant role.
Regardless of the fallout from his notorious twenty-thousand passage, the Hall of Famer never denied it.
