Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars

By Lionel Friedberg and Scotty Bowers

Full Service is the ultimate guilty pleasure, revealing for the first time the shadow lives of the people who created popular culture, told by the man who was so central to fulfilling their desires.

Scotty Bowers, a dashing young ex-Marine exuding sex appeal, arrived in Hollywood in 1946 and quickly caught the attention of many of the town's stars. Working out of a gas station on Hollywood Boulevard, Bowers soon became the go-to guy for anyone looking for a bespoke sexual partner; no matter how outlandish the tastes, Scotty could find someone for everyone...

In his thirty years 'tricking' and arranging tricks for LA's rich and famous, Bowers went to bed with thousands of people and engineered sexual liaisons of all flavours for countless more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Release date: Feb 16, 2012
• ISBN: 9781611859867

Reviews for Full Service

[satyridae · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

So poorly written it's hard to believe. Not that I expected fine literature, going in, mind you. I expected garbage with a side of Katherine Hepburn gossip. What I got was just... icky. Bowers is so smarmily self-congratulatory it's sickening, and such a bad writer it's jaw-dropping. Way, way worse than I expected, and I didn't expect much.

[lemeritus-1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

What to say about this self-serving memoir? Well... I finished it. And I owe an apology to every well-known name dropped within its prurient pages (with the possible exception of J. Edgar Hoover.) If he's to be believed, Bowers ran a unique "service" from the 50s well into the early new century for which he was not paid, arrested, or infected by any happenstance STD. And there you have it.

[pallandavid · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This is a non-pornographic romp through the sexual exploits of the people of Hollywood through the eyes of a man who claims to have set up tricks for the well known of the time, mid-40's through the '70's. Not to mention his own romps with the stars of the time. It is fun and if half of what this guy said he did is true, he has lived one heck of a life!It is a fun read!