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TIL When Paul Joannides first wrote "the Guide To Getting It On", no publisher wanted it because they said it wasn’t enough like the “Joy of Sex”. It also had a sense of humor, and publishers believed that sex and humor were not good companions, so Joannides started his own publishing company

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