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Man and Woman, Intimately

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Dimiter Kenarov writes about a book that was, on the surface, just a primer in sex-ed, yet grew into a cultural phenomenon in Bulgaria.

Capitalism came simultaneously with my first orgasm. It was the early 1990s and I was an innocent, unsuspecting middle-school kid, confined with my innocent, unsuspecting parents in a pre-fab concrete apartment block in Sofia, Bulgaria. Like all such apartment blocks in the neighborhood, it resembled a residential tombstone. We were all living under a rock. But “the Changes”—the events that followed the demise of communist regimes across Eastern Europe in late 1989—were already underway. Old-fashioned beliefs and proprieties were getting quickly discarded. When the Iron Curtain came down, it…

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