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

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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