When you're rich enough and you're famous enough, you're able to get away with pretty much anything. Not that many of the following would be considered mundane, everyday sorts (Messrs Hopper and James, we're looking at you). However, when it came to embracing bizarre sexual practices, these chaps really took the (soggy?) biscuit...
James Dean - He was a bloody odd bloke, James Byron Dean. So odd that the fact he liked having cigarettes stubbed out on his torso was only the second strangest thing about him. No, by far the weirdest thing about Jimmy Dean was his yen for amputees. And what did the Rebel Without A Cause star like to do with the world's unidexters? Why, he'd draw faces on their stumps and then carry out conversations with the severed limbs. Whether or not this can be classified as a sexual fetish is hard to say. Still, we thought it was worth bringing to your attention...
Dennis Hopper - Before there was the drink, the drugs and the massive mental breakdown, Dennis Hopper had problems with his mom. And by problems, we mean that he wanted to sleep with her. As he told reporters, "I never acted on them but I had the most incredible sexual fantasies involving my mother throughout my adolescence. Really odd stuff." By contrast, the times he said he was a lesbian, and the night he was found masturbating in front of a tree - a feat he believed would create a new universe - were just regular days at the office for Dennis The Menace.
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