Sexy Origins and Intimate Things: The Rites and Rituals of Straights, Gays, Bis, Drags, Trans, Virgins, and Others (1998)

by Charles Panati

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Where did the word love come from? Has there ever been a gay pope? How did Valentine's Day originate? From the lascivious to the romantic, from the hard-core to the scientific and the scholarly, this engaging and eye-opening compendium of little known facts about sex is both informative and endlessly entertaining.… (more)

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To my
Favourite Pussies
Boogie,
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(Introduction): Sex has been called many things, some nasty, some nice, few neutral: "Nature's cruel trick to perpetuate the species," "Poor man's polo," "The formula by which one and one makes three."

No woman likes to be called "a [misogynist slur]," to be labeled by a coarse slang term for her sex organ.

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Where did the word love come from? Has there ever been a gay pope? How did Valentine's Day originate? From the lascivious to the romantic, from the hard-core to the scientific and the scholarly, this engaging and eye-opening compendium of little known facts about sex is both informative and endlessly entertaining.

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