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Sex - Early works to 1800

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    The polite road to an estate, or, fornication one great source of wealth and pleasure.

    | Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]
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    Treatises on poisons, hemorrhoids, cohabitation : Maimonides' medical writings / translated and annotated by Fred Rosner.

    Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. | Date: 1984
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    Advice to the fair-sex. A poem Translated from the Greek of Naumachius.

    Free, John, 1712?- | Date: Printed, in the Year, [1736]
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    The loving chamber-maid, or, Vindication of a departed maidenhead : Being the art to lye with a man and yet be a virgin. To a new tune Maidens .... but Ah what is a maid I pray an infant female that scarce views the day, for e're the things we virgins call aspire to 13 years, they feel a strange desire: longing for what themselves can scarcely tell, which strange desire of make their bellies swell and then what 'tis they know too fatal well.

    | Date: [1675?]
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    The Difficult batchelor; or, the nice clown well fitted with an industrious wife.

    | Date: 1760?]
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