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“Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred an accomplice, an attendant lady of respectable appearance who would help him reduce the guilt and loneliness of this most lonely act of love.”
― Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS
― Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS
“Clearly, Nell was going crazy. (Well, she certainly had the hair for it.)”
― Whistling In the Dark
― Whistling In the Dark
“When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come”
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“The average married man, if he had the energy, could have sex with several women without diminishing the affection and desire he felt for his wife. But women like Judith- unlike truly liberated females like Barbara and Arlene- could not simply accept a man as a temporary instrument of pleasure; they wanted soft lights and promises, not just a penis but the man attached to it.”
― Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS
― Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS
“The penis, often regarded as a weapon, is also a burden, the male curse.”
― Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS
― Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS
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