“It's shocking, the positions,
the unchecked simplicity with which
one mind contrives to fertilize another!
Such positions the Kama Sutra itself doesn't know.”

"An Opinion Concerning the Question of Pornography"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The People on the Bridge (1986)

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Polish writer 1923–2012

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“It's shocking, the positions,the unchecked simplicity with whichone mind contrives to fertilize another!Such positions the Kama Sutra itself doesn't know.”

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“It's shocking, the positions,
the unchecked simplicity with which
one mind contrives to fertilize another!
Such positions the Kama Sutra itself doesn't know.”