Sexiest book ever? Try the Bible.
It was especially easy to be intimate in the Old Testament. In those days all the more important people seemed to know each other. Of course Knowing a person was synonymous with fucking them, and the word was applied to both sexes. Men knew women, and women knew men. Later, we only had knowledge of a woman (c. 1425), where to know her was to love her. Knowing a man, however, came to count for very little, and self-knowledge, not at all. A little knowledge continued to be a very dangerous thing. We eventually gained carnal knowledge (c. 1686), from the Latin carnus, “meat,” which made it possible for us to know each other in the flesh, advanced students ostensibly being able to distinguish between eye of the round and chuck.
Directly from the desk of Dr. Bawdy
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