[lentulusgracchus]

I once read a memoir, or a selection from a memoir, by a former fascist staff officer who'd secretaried for Mussolini in the 30's. (In Europe, secretarying wasn't feminized as fast as it was in America. You can still find fully mature men waiting table there, too, you'll have noticed if you've been over there.)

This former private secretary in a black uniform recollected that Mussolini would receive eight or ten (or more) lady visitors who always said the same thing, viz., that they needed to see the Duce about an urgent matter that they couldn't discuss freely. Which meant they were drawn like moths to the flame of power, as Henry Kissinger once remarked. The secretary would excuse himself, go tell the Duce, and he would order the woman to be admitted, after which he would roger her royally -- the purpose of her visit -- and politely see her out a side door. He knocked off at least ten women a day like this -- even nuns -- proving the scientific observations about alpha males' sexual appetites to be correct for Homo sapiens sapiens hastatus rogerissimus as well.

By now at least 5% of the population of Rome is related to Alessandra Mussolini in some degree.

[GulfBreeze]

So the one hung on the board was just the least lucky to have been caught alone with him at the time?

[lentulusgracchus]

Oops, just did some back-of-the envelope math and came up with a much bigger number, approximating 100% of the city population, given that Mussolini was in office 20 years, had 10 women a day, 1/3 of whom will have, shall we say, borne fruit. By now those children's grandchildren are in the middle of their productive years, and there are just a whole hell of a lot of little Mussolinis running around.

I got 1.1 million. See what you get.