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Word: haleking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1976-1976
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...Forman refrain from physical ministrations, medical and otherwise. He invented a code word -halek-to record sexual relations with female patients. The word pops up with awesome regularity throughout the good doctor's case notes. The Dark Lady herself received his attentions. In his mid-50s, he was still haleking as often as three times a day, and the hundreds of casual adulteries confessed to by his clients suggest that Forman was not unusually randy. Rowse's exclamation, "What a free-for-all Elizabethan sex-life was!" is amply documented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Horatio Faustus | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

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