Miss Manners, aka author Judith Martin, has written an advice column since 1978. Her ‘heavy etiquette theory’ comes through in wit and serious analysis. The book includes such gems as offering toiletries to a one-night stand and how to get out of scrapes such as calling a lover by another’s name.
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‘You shall haue euery sawcy boy… to catch vp a woman & marie
her… So he haue his pretie pussie to huggle withall, itforceth not.’
Philip Stubbes, The Anatomic of Abuses, 1583
Apparently the longest sex book title is MULIEBRIA Historico-Medica, hoc est Partium Genitalium Muliebrium Consideratio Physico-Medico — Forensis, qua Pudendi Muliebris Partes tarn extemae, quam intemae, scilicet Uterus cum IpsiAnnexis Ovariis etTubis Fallopianis, nee nonVaria de Clitoride et Tribadismo de Hymen et Nymphotomania seu Feminarum Circumsisione et Castratione selectis et curiosis observationibus traduntur AD Martino Schurigio, Physico Dresdensi (MDCCXXIX) by Schurig. Muliebria translates as the female genital organs.
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‘While we have sex in the mind, we truly have none in
the body.’ DH Lawrence, Leave Sex Alone, 1929
Banned for Sexual Themes
Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger — in various US schools and libraries •^Flower for Algernon, Daniel Keyes — school boards including British Columbia and Canada •bLady Chatterley’s Lover, DH Lawrence — US and UK temporarily. Australia Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov — Iran and Saudi Arabia •>Ulysses, James Joyce — US temporarily
PlayboYs List of Sexiest Novels Ever (Top 20)
О Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, John Cleland ф Lady Chatterley’s
Lover, DH Lawrence ф Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller © The Story of О,
Pauline Reage ф Crash, JG Ballard ф Interview with the Vampire, Anne
Rice ф Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth ф The Magus, John Fowles
ф The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami © Endless Love, Scott
Spencer ф Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov © Carrie’s Story, Molly
Weatherfield © Fear of Flying, Erica Jong © Peyton Place, Grace
Metalious © Story of the Eye, Georges Bataille © The End of Alice, AM
Homes © Vox, Nicholson Baker © Rapture, Susan Minot © Singular
Pleasures, Harry Mathews © In The Cut, Susanna Moore
‘…I saw, with wonder and surprise, what?
not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man,
but a maypole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been
observ’d, it must have belong’d to a young giant.’ From Fanny Hill
Rules For Writing Real Classy Sex Scenes
Never compare a woman’s nipples to: a) Cherries в) Cherry pits c) Pencil
erasers d) Frankenstein’s bolts # Never, ever use the words ‘penis’or’vagina’
# Resist the temptation to use genital euphemisms (unless you are trying to be
funny) # No: tunnel of love, candy shop, secret garden, pleasure gate,
bearded clam # Equally no: mule, flesh kabob, magic wand, shaft of
manhood # Don’t forget the foreplay — The lead-in is often better than the
actual humping part. Tease the reader a little # Real people do not talk in
porn cliches — They do not say: ‘Give it to me, big boy.’ Most of the time, real
people say all kinds of weird, funny things during sex, such as ‘I’ve got a
cramp in my foob # It is okay to get aroused by your own sex scenes — in fact,
ІРs pretty much required Source: sbalmond@earthlink. net