walt whitman was into paleo and wrote a manly health and training guide with sex tips /

Leaves of Grass? He probably ate them now and then.
A scholar at the University of Houston in Texas has discovered a 13-fraction,47000-word series by Walt Whitman, published by the New York Atlas in 1858, and under the pseudonym Mose Velsor.
Under that most macho of aliases,“Manly Health and Training” amounts to a "fraction guest editorial, fraction self-back column, or " a “rambling and self-indulgent series” that reveals Walt Whitman's thoughts on a variety of manly-man topics. Including sex. (more…)

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