"Franklin was a master of what the French call amitié amoureuse, whose English translation, amorous friendship, gives only a hint of its true meaning: a delicious form of intimacy, expressed in exchanges of teasing kisses, tender embraces, intimate conversations and rhapsodic love letters, but not necessarily sexual congress."
from the article "Why he was a babe magnet" in the 7/7/03 special issue of Time Magazine on Ben Franklin.
The word Lascivious is 325 times less popular than stuff
Heard on an interivew on NPR about the new book about Ben Franklin
Friday, July 04, 2003
