Bare Facts

October, 2014

TWO NEW BOOKS EXPOSE THE NAKED TRUTHS ABOUT OUR BODIES • Readers of this magazine maybe forgiven for thinking they know a thing or two about body parts. But with two new volumes, Cultural Encyclopedia of the Breast and its companion. Cultural Encyclopedia of the Penis, publisher Rowman & Littlefield shows there's always more to discover. From the "divorce corset" (an early-1800s device to lift and separate) to "magical penis theft" (the superstition that a man could lose...

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