Sincerely,Fanny is slang for a woman's vagina. It is generally considered not to be derogatory or offensive but is appropriate only in a relaxed or informal environment.
See our Sexual Slang page for more colloquial words for vagina. Below you will find information on the banned erotic novel, Fanny Hill, quotes and pictures.
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Karene Jade
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From
the website: 'Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, also known as Fanny Hill,
is a novel by John Cleland. Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's
prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel"
in English, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica.
The novel was published in two installments, on November 21, 1748 and February of 1749. Initially, there was no governmental reaction to the novel. In November 1749, Cleland and his publisher were arrested and charged with "corrupting the King's subjects." In court, Cleland renounced the novel and it was officially withdrawn. However, as the book became popular, pirate editions appeared. In particular, an episode was interpolated into the book depicting homosexuality between men, which Fanny observes. Cleland published an expurgated version of the book in March 1750 and was prosecuted for that too, although the charges were dropped.
In the 19th century, copies of Fanny Hill were sold 'underground,' and
the book eventually made its way to the United States where, in 1821, it
was banned for obscenity.
n 1963, G. B. Putnam published the book under the title John Cleland's Memoirs
of a Woman of Pleasure which also was immediately banned for obscenity.
The publisher challenged the ban in court.
In a landmark decision in 1966, the United States Supreme Court ruled in
Memoirs v. Massachusetts that the banned novel did not meet the Roth standard
for obscenity.
In 1973, the Miller Test came into effect, and as a result the ban on the
novel was lifted because although it appeals to the prurient interest and
at points is patently offensive, the work taken as a whole does not lack
literary or artistic value.'
Fanny
Hill, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hill
From
the book: 'Encouraged by this, her hands became extremely free, and wander'd
over my whole body, with touches, squeezes, pressures, that rather warm'd
and surpriz'd me with their novelty, than they either shock'd or alarm'd
me.
The flattering praises she intermingled with these invasions, contributed also not a little to bribe my passiveness; and, knowing no ill, I feared none, especially from one who had prevented all doubt of her womanhood by conducting my hands to a pair of breasts that hung loosely down, in a size and volume that full sufficiently distinguished her sex, to me at least, who had never made any other comparison...
I lay then all tame and passive as she could wish, whilst her freedom
raised no other emotions but those of a strange, and, till then, unfelt
pleasure. Every part of me was open and exposed to the licentious courses
of her hands, which,
like a lambent fire, ran over my whole body, and thaw'd all coldness as
they went.
My breasts, if it is not too bold a figure to call so two hard, firm, rising hillocks, that just began to shew themselves, or signify anything to the touch, employ'd and amus'd her hands a-while, till, slipping down lower, over a smooth track, she could just feel the soft silky down that had but a few months before put forth and garnish'd the mount pleasant of those parts, and promised to spread a grateful shelter over the seat of the most exquisite sensation, and which had been, till that instant, the seat of the most insensible innocence. Her fingers play'd and strove to twine in the young tendrils of that moss, which nature has contrived at once for use and ornament.
But,
not contented with these outer posts, she now attempts the main spot, and
began to twitch, to insinuate, and at length to force an introduction of
a finger into the quick itself, in such a manner, that had she not proceeded
by insensible gradations that inflamed me beyond the power of modesty to
oppose its resistance to their progress, I should have jump'd out of bed
and cried for help against such strange assaults.
Instead of which, her lascivious touches had lighted up a new fire that wanton'd through all my veins, but fix'd with violence in that center appointed them by nature, where the first strange hands were now busied in feeling, squeezing, compressing the lips, then opening them again, with a finger between, till an "Oh!" express'd her hurting me, where the narrowness of the unbroken passage refused it entrance to any depth.
In the meantime, the extension of my limbs, languid stretchings, sighs, short heavings, all conspired to assure that experienced wanton that I was more pleased than offended at her proceedings, which she seasoned with repeated kisses and exclamations, such as "Oh! what a charming creature thou art! . . . What a happy man will he be that first makes a woman of you! . . . Oh! that I were a man for your sake! ... with the like broken expressions, interrupted by kisses as fierce and fervent as ever I received from the other sex.
For my part, I was transported, confused, and out of myself; feelings so new were too much for me. My heated and alarm'd senses were in a tumult that robbed me of all liberty of thought; tears of pleasure gush'd from my eyes, and somewhat assuaged the fire that rag'd all over me.'
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