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Sex, Drugs and Chocolate

by Paul Martin · 2009

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A book about the lengths people will go to nuzzle out some pleasure - and the scientific reasons that lie behind those impulses. The author looks at changing attitudes to pleasure over the centuries, including religious and philosophical lawgiving on the subject, before moving on to the science of all this human frenzy.

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adult
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medium · 390 pages

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