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Why sex is secretly food

Posted on 2011/11/10 , tagged as

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‘Freud said that everything was secretly sexual,’ Etymologicon author Mark Forsyth writes on the We Love This Book website. ‘But etymologists know that sex is secretly food.’

Read more of that piece here, and, on the same site, a piece here about the surprisingly mix-up between black and white, and how almost every word in the English language derives from shah…

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