Steve Harvey has been the host of Family Feud for so long, it can be easy to forget just how many others took the game show stage before him. As such, it can also be easy (or perhaps altogether preferable) to forget about past emcee Richard Dawson’s penchant for kissing the lips of all of the female contestants he crossed paths with. That behavior pattern remains a polarizing TV quirk, and while most conversations about the topic over the years included Dawson himself, a new book covering more than a century of pop culture outrage shines a disturbing light on that point in Family Feud’s history, which includes the claim that contestants were given herpes tests.
