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    Philip Roth’s estate, now on the market for $2.95 million, is the perfect place to masturbate.

    Jessie Gaynor
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    September 9, 2019, 3:12pm

    Philip Roth’s Lichfield, Connecticut estate is on the market for $2.925 million. Roth bought the home in 1972 for $110,00 in cash, and it served as his primary residence from 1996 to 2001, during which time he wrote his American Trilogy. We imagine that if these walls could talk, they’d have a lotto say—mostly about masturbation.

    So if you have an extra $3 million in your offshore bank account and you’re in the market for a beautiful, airy, sex-positive historical site in which to finish off your own great American novel (or whatever the kids are calling it these days), make your move! And please let us know, in graphic detail, how it goes.

    [h/t The Wall Street Journal]

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