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A word about my Goodreads Ratings before I get down to my bio: I believe very much that we should be using the full range of five stars in our reviews. I generally rate on the idea I read somewhere that made the point that we should re-read truly great literature four times in our lifetimes -- as a child, as a young adult, in middle age and in old age.

I use this rating premise heavily when it comes to fiction books. I'm much less strict when it comes to academic books as I consult even the worst ones pretty frequently.

So my general ratings for fiction with adjectives are as follows:
★ = Did not finish, terrible, awful, not great. Would not read again. Generic, predictable, or trashy.

★★ = Most likely finished. Not awful, wouldn't recommend ...more

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NotchesBlog Article

Hey guys,

I recently wrote an article about the SSV/Lord Campbell for Notches, which is the leading history of sexuality online journal.

You can read it here: http://notchesblog.com/2016/05/10/a-p...

The book continues to sell well and I’m still looking for a paper publisher

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	Annals of Pornographie: How Porn Became "Bad" 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ethics in Linked Data by Alexandra Provo (Editor), Kathleen Burlingame (Editor), Brian M. Watson (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The ditch once covered over, above it acorns shall be strewn, in order that the spot become green again, and the copse grown back thick over it, the traces of my grave may disappear from the face of the earth as I trust the memory of me shall fade out of the minds of all men save nevertheless for those few who in their goodness have loved me until the last and of whom I carry away a sweet remembrance with me to the grave."
Last Will and Testament (1806)”
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“[pull-quote]I can understand your concern that works on sex crimes class next to works on gays, but this is an accident of classification, in which some topics must appear next to other topics although there may be no relation between them except that they are a subtopic of a larger subject. . . . To even begin to contemplate any intent other than to arrange works on distinct topics on the shelves boggles the mind.[end pull—quote]

The book before you provides an account of an attempt to perform this mind-boggling work.”
― Melissa Adler, Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge

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