the birds and the bees

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Colonial parents

Did the ordinary colonial 'rental unit enjoy the kind of privacy that
would have permitted them to keep sexual intercourse a secret till the
chidren were approaching puberty?

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