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Tuesday Afternoon

Tuesday Afternoon's Journal
Tuesday Afternoon's Journal
January 9, 2013

Its always 4:20 somewhere -

January 8, 2013

that is getting harder and harder for any of us to do, even white males...may be a tad easier but,

poor, white males are having a harder time getting rich these days.

January 8, 2013

an entire class of user on this site who seem to mostly exist just to push other people's buttons to

drive them from the site, just to do it.

and yet somehow, these people are NOT the trolls . . .

January 8, 2013

17th-Century 'Aristotle' Sex Manual Goes Up For Auction

By Jeanna Bryner | LiveScience.com

A sex and pregnancy manual from 1680 that was incorrectly attributed to Aristotle is going up for auction this month at Lyon & Turnbull in England.

"Aristotle's Compleat Master-Piece" may have been banned in Britain until the 1960s, according to some sources, though that is uncertain. One thing is for sure: "It was taboo and a lot of people didn't want their name on it," said Lyon & Turnbull book specialist Cathy Marsden, during an interview.

As for why the book was pegged to Aristotle, "we think it was just to kind of raise the profile of the book," Marsden said. Also, there has been some suggestion that bits of the book, though not very much at all, could be attributed to Aristotle's work. Bits also seem to come from the work of 17th-century physician Nicholas Culpeper and 13th-century saint and grand thinker Albertus Magnus.

The book, though taboo, was by no means "The Joy of Sex," the 1972 cookbook-esque writing known for its explicit drawings of sex poses and the like. Images in this "master-piece" show a woman's torso and drawings of hairy children with extra limbs, and according to the Guardian, an image showing a woman's torso opened up to reveal a baby in her womb. But there are no actual explicit images, she said. [The Sex Quiz: Myths, Taboos & Bizarre Facts]

more at link:
http://news.yahoo.com/17th-century-aristotle-sex-manual-goes-auction-164444364.html

January 8, 2013

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