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I think this was one of, if not the first, smut rags. It's actually pretty boring, even though there's porn on every page.

I read this mostly out of curiosity. The story itself was not terribly engaging, mostly there to tie the sex scenes together as is the way with porn. The sex scenes themselves were both flowery and gross. I admittedly had a hard time following the excessively verbose and "poetic" descriptions of the scenes and when I could it was generally on the more messy, unsexy parts of the action. The moral of this story: Don't read 18th Century porn expecting it to be sexy...

18th century 50 Shades, with better writing. meh.
dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I started reading Fanny Hill earlier on this evening and the first half have just flown by. Fast paced, concise and surprisingly easy to read.
A young, innocent country girl goes to London to earn her fortune after the death of her parents. Thrust into the worldly city without a friend to rely on she finds herself entered into a world of debauchery and lustful licentiousness!. A tale of the journey of a young girl into womanhood. What a classic! Loving it!”

Read for school, would never read again or recommend 
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DID NOT FINISH: 50%

Gleaned all I needed to know from what I'd read and wanted to move on

SMUT
adventurous challenging funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I read this for a college course, called enlightenment literature in our course catalog, but called virgins and whores on the posters. Given the latter half of that second name, reading this makes sense. It is very misogynistic in its portrayal of women, but also fascinating for its portrayal of women's pleasure in a book from the eighteenth century.  

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