>>27855795>Also, as someone who isn't American, I don't even know who Ben Franklin is beyond that he was involved with the founding of the US (?).He was printmaker and scientist who made important to contributions to a lot of fields, most notably electricity - he was the first to prove that static electricity was the same fundamental 'thing' as lightning, created one of the first capacitors, discovered the existence of positive and negative charges, and discovered conservation of charge.
His biggest contribution was as the diplomat to France during the war for independence. He fucked his way around the French aristocracy to get America support and became a /hag/ enthusiast in the pursuit of FREEDOM.
On older women as lovers, he had this to say:
>Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding2 only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement. 
