Sex and death in Verona

I've just finished reading Ron Rosenbaum's new book "The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascos, Palace Coups.''
This is some good book. The author reports on men and women who have given their careers and their lives to studying the work of Shakespeare very, very closely.
There are controversies in Shakespeare studies: Which of the three versions of Hamlet is the most "Shakespearean?'' What were the "real'' last words of King Lear?
These things matter to people who love the Bard and for those who love language and the things it can do to the brain and the heart.
Even a pronoun can matter.
The virgin Juliet says,
"Give me my Romeo, and when he shall die
Take him and cut him out into little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.

Quite the profession of love. How many of you men have ever had that kind of effect on women?
But some scholars believe the first line should have Juliet say ...''and when I die/Take him and cut him.....'' as one version of the play has it. That makes little sense, others argue....unless we remember that in Elizabethan times "to die'' was often a euphemism for "have an orgasm.''
And so, they say, Juliet is contemplating the earth-shattering consummation of her relationship with Romeo. Which would be fine, except that in the play Juliet is probably younger than one of Rep. Foley's pages.
I try to put that aside and, in fact, I'm not in the business of looking for the "naughty bits'' in Shakespeare's plays.
But the man could sling around the old iambic pentameter like nobody's business and some lines stay with me, as when Benedick, in "Much Ado About Nothing,'' tells his true love when she asks what she should do with the world falling apart around them that she should "serve God, love me, and mend.''
And that's good advice for anybody, anywhere and anytime.