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April 29, 2016 05:34 pm PDT

Walt Whitman was into paleo and wrote a Manly Health and Training guide with sex tips

It me, Walt Whitman.

Leaves of Grass? He probably ate them now and then.

A scholar at the University of Houston in Texas has discovered a 13-part, 47,000-word series by Walt Whitman, published by the New York Atlas in 1858, under the pseudonym Mose Velsor.

Under that most macho of aliases, Manly Health and Training amounts to a "part guest editorial, part self-help column," a rambling and self-indulgent series that reveals Walt Whitman's thoughts on a variety of manly-man topics. Including sex.

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