The Paris Review is on vacation until after the holidays, but they posted "[...] we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2016. Enjoy your holiday!"Best of 2016: Max Nelson on "Fanny Howe," one of the most inscrutable erotic novels in history https://t.co/OkWzRR0Rum— The Paris Review (@parisreview) December 28, 2016
And what is one of their favorite pieces? It is Max Nelson's May 5, 2016 post "Overdrafts of Pleasure" that is about John Cleland’s "[...] two-volume novel called Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill, published when he was in debtor’s prison between 1748 and 1749 [...]"
In the novel, Fanny entered the brothel when she was fifteen, which preceded her "sexual initiation" that involved lipstick lesbian sex with a seasoned prostitute. Fanny's first customer was a "[...] debauched elderly caller “with a yellow cadaverous hue”."
John Cleland’s “Fanny Hill”: An Erotic Novel with Morals https://t.co/HdJyyHzirX pic.twitter.com/u3VQhZXNIq— The Paris Review (@parisreview) May 5, 2016
