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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9280611" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>I recently finished <em>The School of Venus</em>, which is the title given to the 1680 English translation of the 1655 French work, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Escole_des_Filles" target="_blank"><em>L'Escole des Filles</em></a> (author(s) unknown, but typically attributed to Michel Millot and Jean L'Ange).</p><p></p><p>One of the early <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whore_dialogues" target="_blank">whore dialogues</a>, I found it odd that it was written in script format, despite there not being any evidence (that I'm aware of) that it was intended for any sort of stage performance. That seems to have been characteristic of this particular genre, as another such book which I read (<em>A Dialogue between a Married Woman and a Maid</em>, also known as <em>The Dialogues of Luisa Sigea</em>, published circa 1660 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Chorier" target="_blank">Nicolas Chorier</a>) was written in the same style.</p><p></p><p>It's also notable that, amidst the highly-smutty conversations in these books, there was a certain sex act which <em>wasn't</em> mentioned in either one, which lends itself to bawdy jokes about it not having been invented yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 9280611, member: 8461"] I recently finished [I]The School of Venus[/I], which is the title given to the 1680 English translation of the 1655 French work, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Escole_des_Filles'][I]L'Escole des Filles[/I][/URL] (author(s) unknown, but typically attributed to Michel Millot and Jean L'Ange). One of the early [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whore_dialogues']whore dialogues[/URL], I found it odd that it was written in script format, despite there not being any evidence (that I'm aware of) that it was intended for any sort of stage performance. That seems to have been characteristic of this particular genre, as another such book which I read ([I]A Dialogue between a Married Woman and a Maid[/I], also known as [I]The Dialogues of Luisa Sigea[/I], published circa 1660 by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Chorier']Nicolas Chorier[/URL]) was written in the same style. It's also notable that, amidst the highly-smutty conversations in these books, there was a certain sex act which [I]wasn't[/I] mentioned in either one, which lends itself to bawdy jokes about it not having been invented yet. [/QUOTE]
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