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    1. Readers are suggesting other titles for Such Were My Temptations. What do you think the title should be? Vote or submit your own.

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    2. Are the Americans you know morally rigid (“Puritanical”) about sex?

    3. Suggestive love poetry appeared in many venues. The Happy Pair, the short poem featured in the video in sidebar to the right, appeared in Father Abraham’s Almanack in 1763. After watching the video, what do you think the poem is about?

    4. Have most human cultures practiced monogamy? Answer one. If comments, add in next question.

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    5. Some historians suggest that naughty books like Aristotle’s Masterpiece and The Coquette were the third books people bought, after Webster’s and the Bible. What was your first naughty book?

    6. When does something become pornographic?

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    7. Is Such Were My Temptations pornographic?

    8. According to author David Levy, “Dildonics,” computer-controlled sexual devices, and “teledildonics,” virtual-reality sex accessed via the Internet, suggest a future with intimacy via machine connections. What do you think of these possibilities?

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    9. Informal networks of information have changed since the Internet revolution. Where do you get your information about sex and reproduction from?

    10. Such Were My Temptations discusses the ravishing power of music. What music ravishes you? Name a song, instrument, or musical style.

    11. Is it appropriate to talk about the founding fathers' sex lives?

    12. Is it appropriate to talk about the founding mothers' sex lives?

    13. Do you think that women need orgasms to be healthy?

    14. Do you think that men need orgasms to be healthy?

    15. Where did you get your ideas about whether orgasm is necessary to health?

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    16. Are men's sex drives stronger than women\'s?

    17. Where did you get your ideas about gendered sex drives?

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    18. Are women the guardians of sexual morality?


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    Praise for The Glass Harmonica

    • "...a scholarly Fifty Shades of Grey."
      —Rebecca Rego Barry, Fine Books Magazine
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    • "Temptations is a fun, fast read with tons of beautiful illustrations...But what’s most striking... is the way the book points out our misconceptions of a sexually repressed national past."    —Rosalyn Sternberg, Kinsey Confidential    Read more reviews.

    • "The ebook is ...an introduction to some of the best readings on these topics."    —Elaine Jarvik, The Salt Lake Tribune    Read more reviews.

    • "Those who think of the 1760s as an era of widespread chastity should brace themselves for surprise before reading Temptations..."    —Rosalyn Sternberg, Kinsey Confidential    Read more reviews.

    • Music, love, virtue, sex, desire – it all comes together in The Glass Harmonica, a knock-out historical novel."    —Ngaire Atmore, New Zealand Herald    Buy now

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    • [A] provocative novel by an elegant writer …"    —Jim Cullen, History News Network    Buy now

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    • As it plumbs the erotic life of the 19th century, this debut novel is filled with moments of startling insight and deep wisdom … Dorothee Kocks’s language vibrates with surprise and enchantment." —Teresa Jordan, author of Riding the White Horse Home    Buy now

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    • [P]oetically erotic … a work of true literary art." —Jesse Paul, Elle Lit     Buy now

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    • One voluptuously melodic sentence follows the next …" —Jana Richman, author of The Last Cowgirl     Buy now

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    • Bawdy, geographically vast, heroic, and sensual indeed, Dorothee Kocks's The Glass Harmonica perfectly combines the novelist's and the historian's skills. It is an unforgettable saga." —Sterling Watson, author of Fighting in the Shade Buy now

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