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Article: Carnal knowledge - History Channel's 'Sex' series explores the act through the ages.
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- The Boston Herald
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- August 16, 1999
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Did you know that the first recorded hanging in Massachusetts was of a teenage servant, Thomas Granger, for sexually assaulting a mare, two goats, a cow, two calves, five sheep and a turkey?
Or that Victorians used the term "limbs" as a euphemism for legs, which were thought to be so sexually exciting to men that a mere glimpse of a table leg could spur them into sexual frenzy?
Would you believe that Pilgrims were kinky?
These are just a few of many titillating, bizarre facts revealed in the History Channel's new five-part, five-hour documentary, "The History of Sex," beginning tonight at 10 and continuing nightly through Friday.
The ...