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My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London (Signet Classics)

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As the greatest heat of the summer was getting over, I crossed over the mountains with a friend, and leaving him to return to England, shaped my course towards the south of France, intending to go by sea to Southern Italy. On the fifth day I determined to do something to enable me to leave her, and told her I must do so. That if she did not let me put her somewhere safely, I would fetch her father. It ended in her writing from my dictation to her relative at A*i**d*n. When I was at F**r***e I had three sisters, and it is the only time I ever had three, tho a dozen times I have had two sisters. — It was in the middle of the day, a scorching hot day, and a Valet-de-place had been with me to some of the sights of the town. When lust got hold of me very strongly, I resisted it till after lunch-eon, when my food made me more lustful, and I asked him if he could show me a house where I could get a woman. Saying I was going to stop that day and the night, the mistress demanded fifty shillings, and said she should lose money at that. I knew well the money taken in that house and that two pounds for twenty-four hours ought to suffice, and it was settled at that. Rosa opened her eyes when she saw me pay, I didn't like to leave her there, thinking the mistress might try to induce her to turn gay, seeing how young and handsome the girl was; but it got monotonous being in one bedroom together so long, and tho I had all the newspapers to read, I was glad when darkness set in.

Chapter II A middle-aged masturbatrix. ― At a French sea-port. ― Mrs. C**p**n. ― Introduced. ― Her voluptuous looks. ― "Where do you garter?" ― A kiss on the stairs. ― In her bed-room. ― Frank impudicity. ― Not quite a gamahuche. ― What's her little game? ― Mutual masturbation. ― Her maid. ― "You won't do it now." ― Both naked. ― My reflections about her behaviour. ― Our second amusements. ― Masturbation resumed. ― Her taste for it. ― Her half promise not kept. ― Her sudden departure. ― At F**r***e. ― A moral Valet-de-place. ― An immoral one. ― A female establishment. ― Maria alone. ― With Maria and Antonia. ― With Francesca. ― With the three sisters to-gether. ― Frolics voluptuous, salacious, libidinous. ― Empty testicles. Historical sources sometimes reassure us: we have thrown off hypocrisy; we’re enlightened. Yet, as Walter notes, “crying out at the sins of others was always a way of hiding one’s own iniquity”. Books may also warn how little we’ve improved. Walter’s entitled licentiousness is based on inequality sexual and financial, redolent of the era. Does this inequality just belong to the past?

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It is therefore a landmark text that throws light upon the sexual dynamics of a society deeply conservative and divided between rich and poor. It was a society that operated in binary terms: men and women, chaste and sexual etc. Then I went into the adjoining room. The door leading out of it on to the lobby was open. I saw other doors open there, which I guessed led to servants' quarters and other rooms. — It did not occur to me that she would see to that — what if one came in — it might compromise her, so I hesitated, stood, coughed, and then coughed louder. Her bedroom door opened ajar, she peeped out, opened it wider, and I saw she was in her chemise. — With silent but rapid step I crossed the corridor. — "Oh you rake, to dare to come in here and catch me like this," said she, shamming. But smiling, her game was as transparent as glass. Again a long pause, again I repeated my offer. She eyed me closely, seemed almost to be trying to look through me, her lips moved as if she was speaking, but not a sound came from them. — Tired of this, and people noticing us as we stood together, tho but few passed in the by-street, and thinking now that I was only wasting my time, I said, "Good bye if you won't go home, and won't come with me — I'm going" — and I turned to go. — As I turned round, — "What are you going to do, where are you going?" said she hurriedly. — "Take you to a house where we can talk comfort-ably, for we can't stand here longer." — "I won't — "Good bye then." — A pause. — "I don't care, — said she sullenly — and she stood upright, still looking at me curiously. — "Will you come at once?" "I will."

When Dorian Gray goes to the bad, what is he up to? When Doolittle sells Eliza, is it unusual? When Jekyll regrets Hyde’s dark urges, when Steerforth corrupts Little Emily, what are they doing?Tell me all about it, my darling." — But she would not — even when my fingers were on her quim, which she now permitted there, but in a way which seemed as if she thought it hopeless to try to prevent me. — "Your face is so dirty, look," — indeed it had become like that of a dirty, blubbering child. — "Get up and see," — getting up and looking in the glass. — "So it is

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