23-06-2026 17:01 via nytimes.com

Benjamin Franklin’s Library Given 1,500 Rare Books About Sex

The collection is the latest donation to the Library Company of Philadelphia, founded by Franklin in 1731, by Charles Rosenberg, a now-retired historian of science at Harvard University. He described this collection, including volumes dating to the late 1600s, as largely “how-to-run-your-sex-life books.” – The New York Times
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