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The Two Meet at the Tip of Your Tongue

Luxury and lechery are two delicious words, the way they roll off the tongue. Lechery, especially: the word comes from the French lecher, to lick. In its earliest sense, a lecher was more of a gourmand than a lustfiend, though its etymology lends itself to pornographic innuendo. Artur Fischer’s nineteenth-century...

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Sex in History

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The Two Meet at the Tip of Your Tongue

By Christina Voss

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