Anyone else breathing a sigh of relief that the childrens author with a overactive libido wasn't diddling kids?

Well that was a relief.

If they were of legal age and it was consensual then good for him, I guess? Who cares this much about someone else's love life? Honestly...

Personal life

From around 1967 to 1975, Silverstein lived on a houseboat in Sausalito, California. He also owned homes on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; Greenwich Village, New York; and Key West, Florida.[34] He never married, and according to the 2007 biography A Boy Named Shel, had sex with "hundreds, perhaps thousands of women".[2] He was also a frequent presence at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion and Playboy Clubs.

Silverstein met a woman from Sausalito named Susan Taylor Hastings at the Playboy Mansion,[35] and they had a daughter named Shoshanna Jordan Hastings (b. June 30, 1970).[36] Susan died on June 29, 1975, one day before Shoshanna's fifth birthday,[36] and Shoshanna went to live with her uncle and aunt in Baltimore, Maryland.[35] Shoshanna died of a cerebral aneurysm on April 24, 1982, at age 11.[37] Silverstein's 1981 book A Light in the Attic is dedicated to her.[35] Silverstein later met Key West native Sarah Spencer, who drove a tourist train and inspired Silverstein's song "The Great Conch Train Robbery".[38][39][40] They had a son named Matthew De Ver (b. November 10, 1984),[41] who later became a New York City–based songwriter and producer.[42]

Well... So long as it was all consensual...

My low stakes conspiracy is that Shel Silverstein is actually Grigori Rasputin. I have nothing to support this and I will not be accepting criticism.

Well you didn't go to the Playboy mansion for the chicken wings.

He was giving tree. 😏

He nicknamed his unit "the giving tree".

"Wealthy artist had a lot of sex a hundred years ago"

Shocking

That fits for the time. The Playboy mansion was swinging in the 60's and 70's..

I mean look at that mugshot. Dude probably hangs dong like a forearm. Probably through a bush thicker than the Amazon rainforest. I don't know why, but it just looks like when he unsheiths his member it hits the ground like Mjornir. He enters a room full of women and leaves it a mess of puddles and pubes. Probably stays well hydrated too.

Good for him.

i have trouble thinking of him as a children's author. dude was an autuer and was not limited to children's poetry. (my favorite rendition of this song is on the muppets)

yeeeeeeeeeah....

the sequel to it is... sadly awful.

https://genius.com/Shel-silverstein-the-father-of-a-boy-named-sue-lyrics

https://www.wideopencountry.com/father-of-a-boy-named-sue-shel-silverstein/

I am admittedly not familiar with most of his work directly, but I had no idea that Shel Silverstein was a man

good for him.

He’s allowed to?

Playboy Mansion is a seedy shithole coming apart at the seams though. It’s the sort of place you’d put a party together and fight the animate mold growing on the walls. But when you find the treasure chest, it’ll just be full of dirty dildoes. Not worth the dungeon crawl to get there.

Lisa of people have sex.

Nice.

In his shoes I'd have done the same.

Where the butthole ends

Legend

Okay..

The Wilt Chamberlain of literature

And he wrote one of the best songs of all time:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=19ZxGWe74rA

And it was all consensual

He wasn't a children's author