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Sir Richard Burton & the History of Sex (Playboy) – Nov 2011
By Turtle Bunbury An illustrated version of this article appeared in Playboy magazine in November 2011. Sir Richard Francis Burton was born in 1821 on the south coast of England. His paternal ancestors hailed from the Lake District, but during the 1770s Burton’s grandfather relocated to the western shores of Ireland and became a Protestant […]