Society & Culture
The male centred ramble novel but make it sexy
2020-02-24
In this episode we go back to the 18th century to look at the first Western erotic novel, the aptly titled Fanny Hill. Within the pages we discover that thigh sex is a thing and that the 18th century had a lot of fun words for genitalia. Give it a go with your lovers, spice up your dirty talk and report back.
*Content warning* this episode contains references to rape.
For those looking to check our academic sources or for further reading (you nerdy, saucy minxes!):
- Weed, David. "Fitting Fanny: Cleland's" Memoirs" and the Politics of Male Pleasure." In Novel: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 7-20. Duke University Press, 1997.
- Fisher, Will. "“Wantoning with the Thighs”: The Socialization of Thigh Sex in England, 1590–1730." Journal of the History of Sexuality 24, no. 1 (2015): 1-24.
- McCracken, David. "A Burkean Analysis of the Sublimity and the Beauty of the Phallus in John Cleland’s Fanny Hill." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 29, no. 3 (2016): 138-141.
- Lubey, Kathleen. Excitable Imaginations: Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 1660-1760. Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
Music: Yesterday's Secret by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/texasradiofish/57365 Ft: Mr. Yesterday, ElRon XChile, Electronico, Duckett, DJ Stupid, robwalkerpoet, Richard Kilmer, inchadney, Sven Erga.
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