History Laid Bare: Love, Sex, and Perversity from the Ancient Etruscans to Warren G. Harding
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ISBN: 0060169532 / Publisher: HarperCollins, February 1994
Surprising historical documents--such as a treatise on the difficulties of sex with the devil--are interspersed with reflections on sex and love by famous artists, statesmen, and saints
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Intending to amuse, enlighten, and fill in the gaps, Zacks plunders history for sexual tidbits and lore from the bawdy to the weird to, in some cases, the horrifying, from 1400 BC Hittite tablets to Joan of Arc, a French love manual to an eyewitness account of sex with the devil, Karl Marx to President Harding. Although it is fragmentary, decontextualized, and contains few female voices, it nevertheless makes for entertaining reading. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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