https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5AztWseIdU Though Summer originally recorded this, ahem, "sensual" disco track for another artist, the stickiness of the song dubbed by Time Magazine as the "marathon of 22 orgasms" was apparently too much to resist and she wound up releasing it on her sophomore album. The groans get somehow less subtle as the song goes on, with a breakdown near the two-minute mark that, if it were playing on radio at a bank, would be guaranteed to give the old ladies in the queue massive heart attacks and the old men...strokes? (Wink, wink.) Her sex cries effectively launched her career, so it's understandable that "Love to Love You, Baby" has become a fixation for interviewers. Summer is constantly asked about the conditions in the studio, which is just a shy way of asking if the sounds were real. The short answer: Yes, it was faked. No, she didn't have a lover in the studio with her. But did she "touch herself?"
"Yes, well, actually I had my hand on my knee."
There you have it. Not as sultry as the final result but an interesting story nonetheless.