Former Girlfriend: Justice Clarence Thomas was "Obsessed with Porn"

The past week has not been very good for Justice Clarence Thomas, the lone Black on the Supreme Court and the far right-wing justice whose bitter confirmation hearings 20 years ago focused on allegations of sexual harassment. Earlier last week, news broke that Virginia Thomas, the Tea Party-affiliated wife of the justice, recently left a voice mail message for Anita Hill demanding that she apologize for "what you did with [sic] my husband." The phone call to the woman who accused Thomas of harassment prompted one of Thomas longtime former girlfriends, Lillian McEwen, to speak out.

The retired prosecutor, law professor and administrative law judge dated Thomas for "five or six years" in the 1980s and told the Washington Post that he is "obsessed" with pornography.

"He was obsessed with porn," she said of Thomas, who is now 63. "He would talk about what he had seen in magazines and films, if there was something worth noting." McEwen added that she had no problem with Thomas's interests, although she found pornography to be "boring."

According to McEwen, Thomas would also tell her about women he encountered at work. He was partial to women with large breasts, she said. In an instance at work, Thomas was so impressed that he asked one woman her bra size, McEwen recalled him telling her. ... However bizarre they may seem, McEwen's recollections resemble accounts shared by other women that swirled around the Thomas confirmation.

Thomas was so "obsessed with porn" that he used it as a prop during sex, McEwen tells ABC News.

During their roughly five years together, according to McEwen, the couple occasionally went to a porn shop called Graffiti, where the owner stocked Thomas' preferred products behind the counter. McEwen said that on several occasions Thomas looked at pornographic materials during intercourse. "His interest in women's breasts was a fantasy. And when I say women's breasts I mean huge breasts," said McEwen. "He would get porn that emphasized that, that had the photographs of women with huge breasts."

McEwen told Cooper that she was not inclined to come forward sooner because of a fondness for Thomas and out of recognition that testimony about personal relationships is not customarily allowed at Senate Confirmation Hearings.

McEwen says that she was surprised that she was not called to the hearings. At the time, McEwen's worked for then-Sen. Joe Biden, who was aware that she and Thomas had dated.

Comments

[Eric]

I guess Clarance Thomas's DUMB ASS WIFE, hasn't heard of the term " Let shit go, or let sleeping dogs lie', she is running a close 2nd to Christine O'Donnell as the stupidest person in politics.

[Derrick from Philly]

Well, if he isn't a hypocrite with that "family values" sh.t his wife certainly is. Long Dong Silver from Savannah....on the US Supreme Court.

Oh, well, Black Republicans and big breasted white women. It makes perfect sense.

[Honut Sinti]

Ms. Thomas lets a sleeping dog lie alright.

She goes to bed with that dog every night, lets him sleep and believes him when he wakes up and disputes Ms. Hill's account of sexual harrassment.

[Zac]

Seriously, all she is doing is looking like some dumb idiot that is mad that her boyfriend broke up with her. Why would you even report the news like this? Unless she has proof, she just sounds like a crying lunatic.