Anthony Perkins

Anthony Perkins was a bisexual (probably) American actor best known for portraying the knife wielding psychopath inspired by another probable incelibate: Ed Gein, in the Hitchcock movie: Psycho. In private, Anthony had an extreme fear of women which prevented him from having sexual activity with women making him an incelibate as far as women for at least 20 years of his adult life. He remained a virgin (as far as sex with women) till age 39.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/5877703/Anthony-Perkins.html
==Heterosexual, Bisexual, or Gay?==
He also is rumored to have had many gay affairs before age 39, including with film star Tab Hunter, dancer Rudolf Nureyev, composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and dancer-choreographer Grover DaleWinecoff, Charles (1996). Split Image: The Life of Anthony Perkins. New York: Dutton. ISBN 0-525-94064-2. leading many to question heterosexuality and even bisexuality, with some thinking he was always gay and never bisexual.https://ew.com/article/1996/09/20/split-image-life-anthony-perkins/ It is unknown if Perkins actually had gay sex before 1990ish when he contracted AIDs, but most likely he did.
==Fear of Women==
He described how again and again, when a sexy girl passed him on the street, fear drew a shade over his eyes and he was mentally unable to perceive the girl he was looking at. “I literally couldn’t see a pretty girl,” he says.https://people.com/archive/cover-story-return-of-psycho-vol-19-no-23/
==A Mother Who Dominated and Sexually Assaulted Him==
When Anthony was 5 years old, his already distant father died, leaving him with an overbearing mother. He once described his mother as his reason for his fear of women, saying
He also saidhttps://people.com/archive/cover-story-return-of-psycho-vol-19-no-23/
==Turning down opportunities from Brigitte Bardot, Ingrid Bergman, and Jane Fonda==
Tony had passed up some opportunities due to fear. Once on location in Australia, Ava Gardner asked him up to her hotel room for an intimate supper. “All shook up,” he declined dessert.
In Paris, Brigitte Bardot invited him to her penthouse and made it clear she was ready for action. 
Ingrid Bergman also liked Tony. 
Jane Fonda was more direct. Tony says that when they rehearsed in her dressing room, she took off all her clothes and sat suggestively powdering her petal-soft 22-year-old body while Tony hid his face in panic behind his script.
==Overcoming fear==
Anthony eventually overcame his fear of women which was attributed by some to psychotherapy he received tailored to address his neurosis.
For the next nine years Tony saw psychiatrist Mildred Newman four times a week at age 34. One day when she asked him to imagine making love to a woman, tears ran down Tony’s cheeks. “Why are you crying?” she asked. 
He lost his virginity at age 34 to Victoria Principal, co-star of Dallas. After the fourth night of his enounter with Victoria, all his fears of women vanished, he said
==Death==
He died September 12th,1992 aged 60 years old of HIV.
==References==
==See also==
*Charles Bukowski
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