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Losing your heart - or your nose LASCIVIOUS BODIES: A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY by Julie Peakman Atlantic Books, £16.99, pp. 348, ISBN 1843541564 £14.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848
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Losing Your Heart - or Your Nose
Losing your heart - or your nose LASCIVIOUS BODIES: A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY by Julie Peakman Atlantic Books, £16.99, pp. 348, ISBN 1843541564 £14.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848
If a car is travelling behind a tractor for five miles on a narrow road, and at last the tractor turns off down a side street, often you will see that car, from its driver's pent-up frustration, suddenly shoot forward, trashing the speed limit.Something similar happened to writing about sex after the Lady Chatterley case of the early 1960s and the subsequent relaxation of censorship. Nove...See the full content of this document
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