creativitycache:goddamnshinyrock:goddamnshinyrock:Amazon reviews of Fanny Hill from people who didn’
creativitycache:goddamnshinyrock:goddamnshinyrock:Amazon reviews of Fanny Hill from people who didn’t know it was pornography: the post. Honorable mention: ‘Kindle Customer’, who did know it was pornography and was really into it: Special shoutout to Amazon reviewer MR J HOLLIDAY, who “believes” that this 18th century pornographic novel was “intentionally written to titillate.” Nothing gets past that guy. I need absolutely everyone to know that I genuinely, hand-to-God-I-swear, had a professor of 18th century lit make a pledge to assign one book she hadn’t read a quarter and I was there for the dawning realization she had given us pornography to read.And because the collegiate experience is unmatched we spent 3 weeks earnestly discussing Fanny Hill.a) That’s AMAZING, congrats to your professor for apparently not even skimming the wikipedia article for the book she was about to assign, and bigger congrats to her for not changing course once she realized it was pornographic. b) it makes me feel I ought to mention that the context in which I read Fanny Hill was as an english literature assignment in freshman year of high school… which was the year I was homeschooled. My mother assigned this to her 14-year-old, with the commentary “it’s a classic.” Boy is it ever. -- source link
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