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Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are. Or so everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated NPR host—the man who put the second "L" in "vanilla"—decided to find out if it's true. From strip clubs to gambling halls to swingers clubs to porn sets—and then... read more
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“And hell if everybody's going to be vaguely dissatisfied with what they've already got, you might as well stay at home, where at least you know the snacks are things you like and you get to control the remote.”
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“Maybe, when you turn up the work lights, that's all any of these vices are: just ways of gussying up meat. Sometimes, the meat is us.”
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as soon as sinning starts to be fun, it becomes a vice.
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Everybody is a tourist outside the bounds of his own life: wondering how the natives manage, trying to get a taste of it while knowing he’ll never know what it’s like to live there.
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Retro Raunch is a website which sells access to thousands of vintage photographs of naked people.
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God only rewards us; a loss is a sign merely that we need to try again and give God another chance.
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Vices may or may not be wrong, but they differ from sins in that you commit them simply (okay, well not so simply…some of them are rather hard) for the pleasure they afford.
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Although, as we shall see, the pleasure you derive from a vice often arises from the fact that you shouldn’t be doing it; that is, your vice may not be a sin, but it’s essential that you believe it to be one.
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To this day, an object that serves no purpose except to show that the owner could afford its ostentatious price is known as a “Veblen good.”
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Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, received a message from God naming the young girl He had selected to be the second wife of Mr. Smith, and also calling out, by name, the first Mrs. Smith, very much alive and still married to Joseph, and suggesting she just chill about it.)
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Studies have shown that male praying mantises actually copulate better with no head, which will surprise no woman who’s ever attempted to talk to a man during foreplay, especially about the idea of maybe having some foreplay.
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A sucker isn’t born every minute; a sucker is born every time someone is born.
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It's nearing midnight at the Power Exchange, San Francisco's, and maybe the world's, only open-to-the-public "mixed" (men and women and transvestites and transgendered) sex club, a nine-thousand-square foot former Pacific Bell switching station now done up in Inexpensive Brothel Moderne.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Peter Sagal (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 9780060843823
Page Count: 254
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 9780060843823
Page Count: 254
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- Dewey: 179.8
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