People! Is anyone here as into Tony’s Secret Cabinet on the Smart Set dot com as I am? It’s a whole column in which Tony Perrottet tells the internet all the fun sex facts he’s learned in the course of his reading.

Mostly he covers things from before our period, but here are two entries the Long 19thers may enjoy:

Quick, Jeeves, Cover the Piano Legs!
The Brits thought Americans prudes. But then the table turned.

The Curse of Self-Abuse
Three hundred years of worry over that most personal of acts.

And here’s one that’s not relevant at all, but it’s my favorite:

Standing up in Court
In the dreaded French impotence trials, performance anxiety took on new meaning.