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THE KINKS IN FRIEDAN'S TRAVEL KIT
FURIOUS feminist Betty Friedan has been quick to criticize fallen
House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston for his indiscretions, but
Friedan has carried some kinky baggage as well.
After Friedan and some of her cohorts insisted on an unscheduled
20-minute pow-wow with Livingston last week, she said he was
''extremely insulting to the modern American women's movement.''
And earlier in the day at a news conference in support of Bill
Clinton, Friedan denounced the President's enemies as ''a bunch of
dirty old white men trying to use sexual issues wrongly.''
But the remarks by Friedan, 77, aco-founder of the National
Organization for Women, sound hypocritical coming from a woman who
once packed graphic pornography in her bag while on a political
mission.
Back in July of 1984, the Daily News reported on an incident at the
San Francisco airport when Friedan arrived for the Democratic
National Convention as part of the New York delegation.
Friedan's over-stuffed suitcase burst open on the luggage carousel,
disgorging what the News described as ''naughty'' contents. A
fellow delegate who was present at the time tells PAGE SIX that
those naughty items were a cache of ''S&M magazines depicting women
in extreme bondage.''
According to the witness, ''Both Friedan and the delegates around
her were extremely embarrassed.''
Friedan, who has dismissed Clinton's sexual indiscretions as
''private behavior'' and ''his business,'' could not be reached for
comment.
Her attack on Livingston was prompted by his confession to fellow
Republicans during an impeachment strategy session. He subsequently
announced his resignation from the Speaker's post and from the
House.
''During my 33-year marriage to my wife, Bonnie,'' Livingston
admitted to stunned colleagues, ''I have on occasion strayed from
my marriage and in doing so nearly cost me my marriage and my
family.''
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, who probably would have approved of
Friedan's reading material at the San Francisco convention, was
quick to take credit for digging up the dirt on Livingston's
infidelities and promised more GOP revelations in the future.
''When our report comes out, Clinton's going to look like Mary
Poppins,'' he said.
According to Flynt, Friedan and Livingston share a taste for kinky
sex. ''We have an audiotape,'' Flynt told The Post. ''He's having
phone sex with one of the girls, and it's pretty raunchy. It's
pretty kinky, his activities with these women.'' (More on the phone
sex allegations: See Cindy Adams on Page 10.)
Flynt should know. But instead of lashing out at Livingston, maybe
Friedan should get together with him and compare predilections.
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