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Dates: during 1975-1975
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...nights were reserved for sordid encounters. Cavafy secretly kept a room in a brothel on Alexandria's Rue Mosquée Attarine and took willing boys there. But he expressed no more than the most fleeting qualms about his homosexuality. He seems to have been much more disturbed by his autoerotic propensities. As Biographer Liddell explains, "In Egypt the name for this practice '39' is popularly explained by the myth that [masturbation] is 39 times more exhausting than any other sexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bard from Byzantium | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

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