Comments | shake_the_stars: Thoughts on John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

shake_the_stars

Thoughts on John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Jun 22, 2007 17:55

I appear to be having a spot of friends-only lately, but such is life.

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zyphryus June 23 2007, 04:03:52 UTC

haha! I loved your long discussion about eighteenth century british literature! :D

Also, I wonder how many other cases 'Fanny' as a name for a sexual creature has turned up. In England, the word 'fanny' is used as another term for woman's naughty bits, and not the buttocks, as we like to think here in the united states.

shake_the_stars June 24 2007, 16:39:34 UTC

Oh, admit it. You whack to literary criticism ALL THE TIME. ;D

Yeah, I was thinking about that, and I wonder where it got started--if it had its genesis after the popularity of Cleland's novel, or if it had been in use in British English for some time previous. There's got to be the OED on the Web somewhere. XD