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The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival, The Belle of the Delaware

Kate Percival

A first-person narrative memoir by Kate Percival recounting her life from childhood in Pennsylvania through her formative years at boarding school, with explicit focus on her romantic and sexual awakening, particularly her relationship with her teacher Laura Castleton.

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Sex & Religion

What this book knows

Female desire narrates itself unapologetically—pleasure, power, and curiosity are Kate's own, not gifts from men.

Sex: Primary
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Present

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desire

I spurred his bottom with my heels, I pressed him to me, I bit him in the agony of my delight.
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Rivers of pleasure permeated through my system… my whole body was under the exquisite influence of her scientific manipulations.
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I was too fond of sexual pleasures to refuse them when time and opportunity offered. I made no reply whatever.
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'I proclaim myself the priestess of this assembly, and shall take upon myself the ord—'
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religion-and-sex

I soon found they were both perfectly adept in the art of procuring sexual enjoyment… the great morality pervading in Mount de Sales.
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I now led her into the vestry-room near the pulpit… I forced a finger into her slit while she seized my instrument.
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