The book report I want to write:

This book is a very nice historical treatise on sex in the Colonies.

A book about sex really shouldn’t be “nice”. Even when talking about the Puritans and their schizophrenia about sexual relations.

There’s not a good wank in the whole thing. Three hundred and forty pages of text – there should be a good wank SOMEWHERE!!!!

What there is plenty of, however, are statements like “This guy wrote in his diary about XXX, but we don’t know how his wife/girlfriend/lover felt about it because her diary (assuming she kept one) didn’t survive.” yawn

Reading this book made me want to reach through the sands of time and smack our ancestors upside the head.

I’m sorry I picked this book up, I’m even sorrier that I didn’t pick up and mark where the annotated bib and index section (they’re over 100 pages) because it would’ve made working through this thing a lot less painful. Someone bring the author to me so I can stick him in a pillory and abuse him.

On this day..

• No furnace - day 20million - 2004
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