Many of these 19th-century books are surprisingly kinky, and some of them may be quite offensive to modern-day readers – in more ways than one. What a heavenly form! But come, turn round and let me see the charms of the other side. In telling me all this Louisa had often to beat about the bush for expressions to explain their actions and their means of carrying them out. When the trance was over, she drew me to her bosom and our lips joined in a long kiss of satisfied desire. How much more beautiful this is than the bosom of a woman,’ said she. I explained to her the nature of the change and of the happy adaptation of the end to the means; for what should we have done had he been always in a state of erection? In the middle of the picture a lovely recess-a temple of the God of Love-its moist pink inside, the delightful clitoris (betraying by its stiff projection the state of excitement the dear creature was under) and in
