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Friday, March 21, 2014

Rise of the Sex Manual

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

From the archive (1999): Michael Bush explores the development of sex guides in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and their effect on British society.
One day in 1812 a young tin-smith named Richard Carlile was browsing at a bookstall in the market at Plymouth Docks when a well-dressed serving maid arrived to collect a previously ordered book for her mistress...

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