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THOMAS A.FOSTER is an Associate Professor in the History Department at DePaul University. He is the author of Sex and the EighteenthCentury Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America and the editor of three books, most recently Documenting Intimate Matters: Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America.
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