Potent Lewd Books describes the emergence of a brand new home-grown English pornography. throughout the exam of over 500 items of British erotica, this ebook appears to be like at intercourse as visible in erotic tradition, faith and medication during the lengthy eighteenth-century, and gives a thorough new method of the examine of sexuality.
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