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Rimming Was Everywhere in the Middle Ages, but Not for the Reason You Think

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To the modern viewer of medieval manuscripts, rimming is all over the place.

In 1998, President Clinton announced to the world in his State of the Union address that he never had “sexual relations” with intern Monica Lewinsky.

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