Tag: Fanny Hill

• Sex in a Debtors’ Prison

  Once upon a time (in 1748) a man named John Cleland sat in a lonely debtors’ prison in England. Day after dreary day he sat thinking of sex. He couldn’t help himself. Debtors’ prison was god-awfully dull. We don’t know for sure if John ever pleasured himself, but according to Dr. William Acton anyone who…

  Adrienne Morris

  May 27, 2015

  books, United States History

  19th century, Books, Civil War, Fanny Hill, fiction, sex