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If you want to read the book ;P
http://www.classicly.com/read-fanny-hill-online-free/page/1
Skimming through, some passages that caught my eye:
- Imagine to yourself, a man rather past threescore, short and ill-made, with a yellow cadaverous hue, great goggle eyes, that stared as if he was strangled; an out-mouth from two more properly tusks than teeth, livid lips, and breath like a Jake's: then he had a peculiar ghastliness in his grin, that made him perfectly frightful, if not dangerous to women with child; yet, made as he was thus in mock of man, he was so blind to his own staring deformities, as to think himself born to please, and that no woman could see him with impunity: in consequence of which idea, he had lavished great sums on such wretches as could gain upon themselves to pretend love to his person, whilst to those who had not art or patience to dissemble the horror it inspired, he behaved even brutally.
LOL!
Interesting that the opinion is that books require less censoring than television. Ending on that note left an ominous aftertaste.“It all seems very odd now, 50 years later, when you can turn on a cable station in your own home and see stuff that’s incredibly explicit,” (Cowin) said. “The opinion is the government’s got better things to do than telling us what we ought to be reading.”
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There was a post on /r/askhistorians on the history of porn. One of the things he emphasized was that the drive to censor porn started when the masses starting consuming it.