In a posthumous memoir, Paul Newman says that his wife Joanne Woodward turned him into a “sexual creature,” People magazine reports.

Newman wrote about his marriage to Woodward in The Extraordinary Life of An Ordinary Man, a memoir being published next week by Knopf. The book was assembled by editor David H. Rosenthal from tape-recorded conversations the actor conducted with close friend Stewart Stern. A critic for Kirkus praised the book’s “intimate reflections on an extraordinary life steeped in sadness.”

The legendary actor wrote that he lacked confidence as a young man, and that women thought of him as “a happy buffoon.”

Then he met fellow actor Woodward when he made his 1953 stage debut in Picnic. He divorced his first wife, Jackie Witte, four years later, and married Woodward shortly after.

“I went from being not much of a sexual threat to something else entirely,” Newman wrote. “Joanne gave birth to a sexual creature. We left a trail of lust all over the place. Hotels and public parks and Hertz Rent-A-Cars.”

And in their own home, in which Woodward redesigned a room for a special purpose. Newman wrote about his wife’s reveal of the spruced-up space.

“‘I call it the Fuck Hut,’ she said proudly,” Newman wrote. “It had been done with such affection and delight. Even if my kids came over, we’d go into the Fuck Hut several nights a week and just be intimate and noisy and ribald.”

On Twitter, users reacted to the “Fuck Hut” revelation with a mixture of admiration and surprise.

“The Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward spare bedroom ‘Fuck Hut’ should be a national monument. Americans should be able to be transported back to a time when two hot people had wild sex in a place and we were a proper country,” wrote author Jason Diamond.

Journalist Miles Klee agreed, tweeting, “who else wants to make a solemn pilgrimage to Paul Newman's fuck hut.”

Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.