And a women's group called Code Pink has begun picketing Schwarzenegger campaign events to protest what they termed his "outrageous" conduct toward women. Gay groups called on Schwarzenegger to apologize for the use of "fag," which they said was demeaning.
Baker said she speaks to Schwarzenegger occasionally - they last talked three weeks ago - but he didn't ask her to campaign for him. They remain friends, she says.įor years after their breakup Baker avoided interviews, but she said she now has agreed to discuss the actor in an effort to promote "Surviving Arnold, " her unpublished memoir about their relationship.īaker's decision to speak out comes at a time when the Schwarzenegger campaign is seeking to blunt criticism that arose when the Oui interview was republished in newspapers and on the Internet. "This doesn't hold a candle to what Clinton did."īaker, now 55, is a Ventura County English teacher she dated the bodybuilder from 1969 to 1976 and lived with him in Santa Monica for most of that time. "They've heard Arnold groped some women - it's like, c'mon," Baker says. "I just think he said that for the article."Īnd while portrayals of Schwarzenegger as a youthful womanizer are more on the mark - in Oui, Schwarzenegger described his participation in group sex - Baker says that shouldn't dissuade women from voting for a candidate whom she describes as brilliant, charismatic, tolerant and level-headed. The article quoted him as saying that he smoked grass and hashish, and washed down vitamins with whiskey.Īctually, she said, "he did not do much marijuana at all" and rarely even drank beer. She said the bodybuilder confronted the filmmaker at a theater in Los Angeles, and the footage was withdrawn soon afterward.īaker says voters shouldn't be put off by Oui's portrayal of the bodybuilder as a substance abuser. "He asked Arnold to use his posing footage in a documentary, but (Schwarzenegger) found out he had used it in a porno film, a homosexual movie, " she said. "(They would say) 'OK, I'll pay for you, I'll do everything for you if you service me sexually.'īaker also recalled Schwarzenegger's displeasure when a friend spliced some video of his bodybuilding poses into a gay porno film without permission. "Gay men would try to seduce body builders" and offer them money in exchange for sex, she said. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.Schwarzenegger had many gay friends in the 1970s, she says, although he did object to the gay prostitution scene that had sprung up around his sport. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site.
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