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The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.

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Thomas Szasz
Age: 92 †
Born: 1920
Born: April 15
Died: 2012
Died: September 8
Academic
Human Rights Activist
Psychiatrist
University Teacher
Writer
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Men
Correspondence
Intimacy
Contemporary
Friendship
Faces
Experience
Cohabitation
Women
Victorians
Many
Fornication

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