The British Foreign Office. Credit: Wikipedia.
In foreign office document FO 371/168255 from 5 June 1963, sent from the Havana embassy, Sir Herbert Marchant, then the British ambassador in Cuba, sent his superiors in the foreign office a review of the state of culture in Cuba after the revolution. He noted that "Havana has very few book-shops" but nevertheless there is a "plentiful supply of paper-back text books on Chess and Sex, both popular with Cubans."
The popularity of chess is understandable, due to Capablanca, of course, but why on earth would the other activity be popular in Cuba?
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