Erotic literature
The text is hardly explicit as Cleland wrote the entire book using euphemisms for sex acts and body parts, employing 50 different ones just for the term penis. Gladstone patrolled at night to persuade girls to leave their life of 'vice'. A Victorian Beauty nudeorama October 29, Vintage postcards like these blur the lines between painting and photography — the original photograph embellished by ink and charcoal, then later tinted by watercolors. University of California Press. Men were vigorously counselled to conserve vital health by avoiding fornication, masturbation and nocturnal emissions for which a variety of devices were invented and by rationing sex within marriage. It was a second film loop, with a close-up of a nuzzling couple followed by a short peck on the lips "the mysteries of the kiss revealed".