Length26h 2m
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Excerpt: "I began these memoirs when about twenty-five years old, having from youth kept a diary of some sort, which perhaps from habit made me think of recording my inner and secret life. When I began it, I had scarcely read a baudy book, none of which excepting "Fanny Hill" appeared to me to be truthful, that did, and it does so still; the others telling of recherche eroticisms, or of inordinate copulative powers, of the strange twists, tricks, and fancies, of matured voluptuousness, and philosophical lewedness, seemed to my comparative ignorance, as baudy imaginings, or lying inventions, not worthy of belief; although I now know by experience, that they may be true enough, however eccentric, and improbable, they may appear to the uninitiated. Fanny Hill was a woman's experience. Written perhaps by a woman, where was a man's, written with equal truth? That book has no baudy word in it; but baudy acts need the baudy ejaculations; the erotic, full flavored expressions, which even the chastest indulge in, when lust, or love, is in its full tide of performance. So I determined to write my private life freely as to fact, and in the spirit of the lustful acts done by me, or witnessed; it is written therefore with absolute truth, and without any regard whatever for what the world calls decency. Decency and voluptuousness in its fullest acceptance, cannot exist together, one would kill the other; the poetry of copulation I have only experienced with a few women, which however neither prevented them, nor me from calling a spade, a spade."
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length26 hrs 2 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1My Secret Life I To III
26CHAPTER VI.
2Volume One
27CHAPTER VII.
3INTRODUCTION
28CHAPTER VIII.
4PREFACE
29CHAPTER IX.
5SECOND PREFACE
30CHAPTER X.
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6CHAPTER I.
31CHAPTER XI.
7CHAPTER II.
32CHAPTER XII.
8CHAPTER III.
33CHAPTER XIII.
9CHAPTER IV.
34CHAPTER XIV.
10CHAPTER V.
35CHAPTER XV.
11CHAPTER VI.
36CHAPTER XVI.
12CHAPTER VII.
37CHAPTER XVII.
13CHAPTER VIII.
38CHAPTER XVIII.
14CHAPTER IX.
39CHAPTER XIX.
15CHAPTER X.
40CHAPTER XX.
16CHAPTER XI.
41CHAPTER XXI.
17CHAPTER XII.
42Volume Three
18CHAPTER XIII.
43CHAPTER I.
19CHAPTER XIV.
44CHAPTER II.
20Volume Two
45CHAPTER III.
21CHAPTER I.
46CHAPTER IV.
22CHAPTER II.
47CHAPTER V.
23CHAPTER III.
48CHAPTER VI.
24CHAPTER IV.
49CHAPTER VII.
25CHAPTER V.
50CHAPTER VIII.
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