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"Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right."
there are so many books on how to ?"
"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex,
"Tell him I've been too fucking busy - or vice versa."
"There are no good girls gone wrong,
"Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality.
"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it
"A halo has to fall only a few
"Brevity is the soul of lingerie."
- Dorothy Parker"
"Sex is a bad thing because
Real satisfaction is not enshrined in a
Sexual Transgressions Puritan Settlers New England America  The early Puritan settlers in New England had a punishment to fit every sexual transgression: whip lashings for fornication, scarlet A's for adultery, confinement in stocks or pillory for newly married couples after the wedding. Yet despite these severities, some estimates concluded that fully one-third of the children born in late 18th century New England were conceived out of wedlock.
In the long run, however, changing social customs achieved what stocks
and pillory could not. Sexual squeamishness, in fact, became a mark of
social refinement in 19th century America. It also spawned a flourishing
business in books for all ages and both sexes on avoiding temptation.
The author of the "Science of a New Life" urged women to eschew chignons
because "this great pressure of hair on the small brain...causes an unusual
flow of the blood to amativeness." Sylvester Graham warned young men that
"over-stimulation" would lead to "a shocking state of debility and excessive
irritabitliy." And some thought that not even the sanction of marriage
should lift restrictions on amorousness. In 1840 Dr William Andrus Alcott
cautioned newlyweds against frequent sex, explaing "that one indulgence to
each lunar month is all that the best health of the parties can possibly
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