Download or read book Sexy Origins and Intimate Things written by Charles Panati and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1998 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where did the word love come from? Has there ever been a gay pope? How did Valentine's Day originate? From the lascivious to the romantic, from the hard-core to the scientific and the scholarly, this engaging and eye-opening compendium of little known facts about sex is both informative and endlessly entertaining.