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I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885–1930), British author. repr. in Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D.H. Lawrence, pt. 3, ed. E. McDonald (1936). Pornography and Obscenity (1930).

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