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The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel

Anonymous · 1873

A Victorian-era erotic novel presented in four volumes, narrated from the perspective of a young protagonist experiencing sexual awakening within a household that includes a governess and siblings. The work is explicit in its treatment of sexual themes and relationships.

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Sex & Religion

What this book knows

Pleasure is the only curriculum: desire accumulates, escalates, and governs every relationship without guilt or consequence.

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

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her hand fell, apparently by accident, exactly on my cock—the touch was electric. In an instant, my member stood stiff and strong beneath her hand.
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Her gentle touch did anything but allay the passion that was rising to fever heat; my titillations soon decided her passions.
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do I not quite overlook all your weakness for the younger members of your own sex, and do I not lend myself to your fantasies in that way?
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He scolded us sternly for being late, and said he meant to flog us both well—we knew immediately that he meant to lay on.
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Aunt asked me to walk with her, and as before ended by leading me to the summer house, where, after relieving my distress symptoms three times, she proposed to try a new position.
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We women are made to relieve such stiffnesses; we possess a sheath to put it in. She took my hand and put it down on her cunt.
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