What do you call a sex maniac? (UNCLASSIFIED)

Thu Mar 4 07:15:15 UTC 2010

Reminds me of the doctrine of signatures.

Eric

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> At 11:56 AM -0600 2/22/10, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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> >General -- sexaholic
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> >Male -- Swordsman, cocksman, Lothario, Romeo, Don Juan, ladies' man,
> >libertine, satyromaniac, Casanova, rake, poon magnet, player
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> And re "sex addict" and "Casanova", see now this letter to the editor
> of the Times appearing yesterday:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/health/02lett-OFAPOLOGIESA_LETTERS.html
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> Note too the name of the writer....
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> LH
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