“Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.”

—  Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich's ABC https://books.google.com/books?id=u7x5UYHMs0IC&pg=PT158#v=snippet&q=sex%20in%20amaerica&f=false (1962)

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