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ismnotwasm

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12. Fascinating
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 01:42 AM
Jan 2015

“Cigarettes were a symbol of the penis and of male sexual power…Women would smoke because it was then that they’d have their own penises.”

I see Freud was still very much in vogue then. Oral fixation and all. Cigarettes look more like a detachable tentacle to me, but those were different times, as a famous songwriter once said.

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