THE PARIS REVIEW's Best of 2016: A Post About a Nymphet Prostitute

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

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!" 

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