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soldier’s disease
—drug addiction to morphine by Civil War veterans. Morphine was frequently used as a pain-killer during the Civil War. A number of soldiers became addicted as a result.

sporting culture
—generations of hard-drinking, whore-loving, gambling, fighting American males who abandoned traditional mores for a social life that was lived on the streets and in the back alleys of nineteenth century America.

Storyville
—located in New Orleans between 1898 and 1917, the nation’s most notorious and famous legally-mandated red-light district.

third sex
—people who preferred to have sex with same-sex partners.

trade
—manly or “normal” males who allowed or invited the sexual advances of “fairies” or effeminate-appearing males.

two-way artist
—a man who gave other men oral sex and received anal sex, e.g. “a two-way artist is a cocksucker and a pogue.”

VAGINAL TENTS—
diaphragms for birth control

Terms for Prostitutes in the 1800s

Terms for a Whore House

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CHAPTER

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Sex on the Interstate & In the Woods

F
or some people, there’s nothing like cruising down a deserted highway with one hand on the wheel and the other on their lover’s sweet spot. It doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor, mongrel or blueblood, this is one time when our motor-driven culture nips you in the rear and makes you feel good all over.

Acts described in this chapter may be illegal or dangerous in many parts of the world, including the United States. Local, State and National ordinances should be your guide, in addition to common sense. Goofy Foot Press does not condone nor encourage any acts that might be dangerous or illegal.

The Rolling Monotone of a Nebraska Back Road

It might be particularly nice when your brain’s in a narcoleptic funk and your sweetheart slyly grabs your free hand and slips it into the warm, wet space between her legs. Or maybe you’re taking that long drive from Texas to Washington D.C. and the wind’s not the only thing that’s doing the blowing.

Ten years after the fact, one of you will occasionally say, “Honey, remember that time going ’cross Kansas...” and you’ll both stop whatever you are doing, smile, and shut out the rest of the world for a precious moment.

The best way to use a car for sex, besides for driving to your sweetheart’s house to get some, is when parking at a romantic spot and seeing how quickly you can steam the windows up. People who live in the inner city often don’t have cars, so they sometimes find a favorite rooftop or “tar beach” with a romantic view where they can make love. Just be sure it’s not a spot where junkies like to shoot up; you don’t want to roll over on someone’s stuff.

Winnebegos on the Continental Divide

While it’s important to do things that inspire fond memories, it’s also nice to stay alive so you can enjoy them. Keeping your bearings on the road while sharing certain types of physical pleasure is a talent that few people should ever attempt. Also, your state might have laws about sex behind the wheel. Call your State Trooper, State Police or Highway Patrol and ask.

As for other driving risks, driving with your head up the tailpipe is probably safer than driving while talking on a cellular phone, and thousands of people die each year from falling asleep at the wheel. We’d love to keep you as readers of future editions, so please, if you find yourself feeling sleepy, get some coffee or pull far off the road and take a nap.

Sex on the Rail of the Hoover Dam & Beyond

Some people like to have sex in public places where other people will see. While this might be a fine form of release for all parties involved, it is not what this section is about. What’s being described here is that rare moment in life when you and your partner get to make love in a natural setting which is so magnificent that nature’s sweet vibration nearly explodes inside of you. What transpires can be so expansive that it’s difficult to think of it as just sex, or maybe it’s what sex was meant to be before we started living in high rises and condominiums.

There are natural settings where you don’t have to be too cautious about getting it on, like in a meadow filled with wildflowers, on a deserted beach, or under a god-sized rainbow in the Montana Big Sky. But there are other equally compelling locations, like dams, bridges, trains, planes, and various national monuments, where a well-honed sense of cunning and mischief is absolutely essential. The following are but a few suggestions about sex in the outdoors that you might find helpful: