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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society
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This is a 1762 illustration of a woman warding off the devil with her genitalia.
The illustration was used to accompany the poem, “The Devil of Pope Fig Island,” written by a 17th century French poet by the name of Jean de la Fontaine.
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This is a 1762 illustration of a woman warding off the devil with her genitalia.
The illustration was used to accompany the poem, “The Devil of Pope Fig Island,” written by a 17th century French poet by the name of Jean de la Fontaine.
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instagram.comOn Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
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When in 1575 Dorothy Clevely, a London wife of dubious morals, told her maid Judith to wash her feet and put out a clean smock as she might have to share a bed with some gentlewoman who would be ‘loath to lie with her if her feet were foul and her smock not clean’, she was expressing common sensibilities.
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De Mulieribus Claris or De Claris Mulieribus (Latin for "Concerning Famous Women") is a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in Latin prose in 1361–1362. It is notable as the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in post-ancient Western literature... See more
De Mulieribus Claris
🖼️ Miscellaneous antique erotic art ✨
1. Achille Devéria, 1830
2. Gustave Courbet, “The Origin of the World”, 1866
3. Chinese porcelain tile, 19th century
4. Anonymous, 1799
5. Rudolfo Valentino, “Tango Dancers”, 1930. Painted terra-cotta.
6. Gustave Courbet, “The... See more
instagram.comThe somewhat misogynistic anonymous text entitled The Deceyte of Women (1557) is a collection of tales very much in the popular tradition about women lying and cheating and frequently taking lovers behind their husbands’ backs. But although it returns again and again to the theme of women as being morally corrupt, men who are deceived by them are t
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