shagging & fucking

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/3/2010 04:09 AM, ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:
>Well, in their defense, since homosexuality had not yet been
>invented, they did not realize that they were supposed to stick to
>just one sex as the outlet for their shagging.

Surely they did realize -- sodomy was a capital and much (perhaps the
most) despised crime in 1700s England.  There was blackmail and
extortion; "sodomites" kept their activities hidden.

Joel

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