Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Latin Sexual Vocabulary
- Author
- J. N. Adams
- Published
- 1982
- Pages
- 272
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: A philologist’s study of the Latin words for sex and the body, from obscenities to euphemism and metaphor, and what they show about Roman social register.
Where I heard about it
- r/obscurePDFs — posted as a PDF in March 2019 (post). The book is in print, so the shared copy was not archived. Routing record: The obscurePDFs Subreddit.