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# Elmina Drake Slenker

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Elmina Drake Slenker was a 19th-century American author, leader in the Freethought movement, and early sex reformer. A regular contributor to anarchist journal Lucifer the Lightbearer, Slinker advocated a sexual practice called Dianism. In 1887, Slenker was arrested for violating the Comstock laws w

##  Quotes by Elmina Drake Slenker

> [“When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; . . . . despairing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elmina-drake-slenker/when-a-mere-girl-my-mother-offered-me-a-dollar-if-i-would-read-the/)

[Elmina Drake Slenker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elmina-drake-slenker/)

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