I was listening to James Schmidt's audio lectures on The Enlightenment
when I came across Schmidt's description of the first coffeehouses in
England. Schmidt describes the resistance coffee met from 'concerned
citizens' who argued that coffee caused impotence, quite literally
drying patrons up. A letter warned that men faced being "cuckolded by
dildos" if they did not stop drinking coffee.
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