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"'''''[Lady Chatterley's Lover] is, to say the least, a powerful aphrodisiac and I have it on the personal testimony of one who lisps that its descriptions of the normal sex act could do more than the arts of psychoanalysis to make an erring homo renounce his red tie and begin annoying women."''''' <ref>Merle Macbain to Leo Adams, October 12, 1929. Leo Adams Papers, New York Public Library (hereafter cited by name and date only).</ref>  
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'''"[Lady Chatterley's Lover] ''is, to say the least, a powerful aphrodisiac and I have it on the personal testimony of one who lisps that its descriptions of the normal sex act could do more than the arts of psychoanalysis to make an erring homo renounce his red tie and begin annoying women."'''''<ref>Merle Macbain to Leo Adams, October 12, 1929. Leo Adams Papers, New York Public Library (hereafter cited by name and date only).</ref>  
  
  

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"[Lady Chatterley's Lover] is, to say the least, a powerful aphrodisiac and I have it on the personal testimony of one who lisps that its descriptions of the normal sex act could do more than the arts of psychoanalysis to make an erring homo renounce his red tie and begin annoying women."[1]


Notes

  1. Merle Macbain to Leo Adams, October 12, 1929. Leo Adams Papers, New York Public Library (hereafter cited by name and date only).


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