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A sexual athlete who fathered both legitimate and illegitimate children (see ‘A Burns Chronology’ for details), Burns was uninhibited on the subject of sex in private, believing it to be a natural blessing, a rare pleasure for the poor.
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© 1991 Alan Bold
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Bold, A. (1991). The Bawdy Burns. In: A Burns Companion. Literary Companions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21165-4_10
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