Detective Mildred strikes again! It's funny, because I sat down this evening to talk about how I don't think Fritz would have said he wasn't having sex with Algarotti if he was, and use that as evidence for the low sex drive theory. But now that I was at the computer, I went and did my due diligence with Preuss (which is very hard to do on my phone), and lo and behold! Fritz is saying he DID have sex with Algarotti. And not as much as he wanted, at that. I had to do a 180 on my whole write-up!
Man, I have got to learn French and German. There's got to be a ton of goodies like that out there!
Oh, and now we're up to documentary evidence for a sexually active relationship with two of the boyfriends: Keith and Algarotti. (I still suspect I'm the first one to pick up on the very indirect but compelling evidence for the former. I would like to have a gander at the original FW order re Keyserlingk in the archives. selenak, one day, post-pandemic, you're going to have to help me with this. ;) )
ETA: Also, props to Blanning for pointing me in the right direction. Long ago, I had skimmed the complete set of Algarotti letters in Preuss via Google translate, but I did *not* pick up on this aspect. Like MacDonogh, Blanning is a good person to have read. Both their books are chock full of useful information that I've been able to contribute to our discussions. They're just bad people to trust. (And to be fair, most authors are. Ziebura still gets flowers. And we take it back about Marwitz!)
Re: Algarotti's STD and Fritz's sexuality
Detective Mildred strikes again! It's funny, because I sat down this evening to talk about how I don't think Fritz would have said he wasn't having sex with Algarotti if he was, and use that as evidence for the low sex drive theory. But now that I was at the computer, I went and did my due diligence with Preuss (which is very hard to do on my phone), and lo and behold! Fritz is saying he DID have sex with Algarotti. And not as much as he wanted, at that. I had to do a 180 on my whole write-up!
Man, I have got to learn French and German. There's got to be a ton of goodies like that out there!
Oh, and now we're up to documentary evidence for a sexually active relationship with two of the boyfriends: Keith and Algarotti. (I still suspect I'm the first one to pick up on the very indirect but compelling evidence for the former. I would like to have a gander at the original FW order re Keyserlingk in the archives.
ETA: Also, props to Blanning for pointing me in the right direction. Long ago, I had skimmed the complete set of Algarotti letters in Preuss via Google translate, but I did *not* pick up on this aspect. Like MacDonogh, Blanning is a good person to have read. Both their books are chock full of useful information that I've been able to contribute to our discussions. They're just bad people to trust. (And to be fair, most authors are. Ziebura still gets flowers. And we take it back about Marwitz!)