In Letters of Note: Sex, Shaun Usher collects together some of the most noteworthy missives ever written on the subject, from euphemism-laden, flirtatious exchanges and desire-driven expressions of passion to sincere and thoughtful meditations on the meaning of sex.
Includes letters by:
John Cheever, Dorothy Day,
Frida Kahlo, Margaret Mead,
Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin,
Mae West
& many more
- 144 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Letters of Note: Sex
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- 01 An Instrument of Joy
- 02 What Gloomy Tidings About the Crabs
- 03 You the Pious, the Moral, the Respectable
- 04 To My Ever-Loving Wife
- 05 The Ache in My Heart is Intolerable
- 06 All I Know is Asthma
- 07 Sexationally Yours
- 08 This Astonishing Pilgrimage
- 09 Do Not Think I Rejoice in Being Sexless
- 10 Sex Does Not Thrive on Monotony
- 11 The Last Sexual Taboo
- 12 Oblivion of Words
- 13 You’re Food and Drink to Me
- 14 Your Lovely Hampton Wick
- 15 There Are No Nice Customers
- 16 My Body Shall be All, All Yours
- 17 Man’s Best Friend? A Sheep? A Horse?
- 18 Max Standby
- 19 A Potentially Limitless Shared Ecstasy
- 20 Even My Bones Seem to Cry for You
- 21 Your Name is Upon Every Tongue
- 22 At Length the Waves Grew More Terrific
- 23 The Poor-Whores Petition
- 24 I was a Masturbator’s Masturbator
- 25 I was the Worst Bed Partner in Five Continents
- 26 I Need to Relieve My Sexuality Physically Somehow
- 27 Married Love
- 28 If Only
- Permission Credits
- Acknowledgements
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