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Shakespeare's Sex Life
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
The Cost of Spirit in a Waste of Shame
This is a love letter from a man to another man. It's pretty bad in it. I've read somewhere that if a man ejaculates, the belief was that at that time they lost five minutes or an hour of their life. And you can tell me whether this is actually true. So sex between a man and woman is just a waste of time,. a waste of energy, a waste of spirit. And it's horrible. Really, Shakespeare, is it? No. If we accept that the man writing to another man who really fancies him but what does that tell us about same sex relationships at that time? Because it's tempting to think that it's all fire and brim
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