Gravdigr • Feb 8, 2010 3:15 am
I wonder if Mrs. Tasse's parlor is still doing business? God I hope so. Stink finger.

DanaC;633529 wrote:What year is this from?
Carruthers;633754 wrote:I wasn't paying much attention to the radio a few days ago, but I eventually realised that a book under discussion was a guide to er.......... 18th Century 'ladies of the evening'.
The various services available from each lady were extensively but discreetly catalogued. One girl was noted for her skill in 'playing the silent flute'. :headshake
There is no more I can usefully add.
Carruthers:)
Elspode;633964 wrote:Everything there makes sense except:
1) Aural? WTF? Is that where you talk about it and she listens?
2) Dog style is free? Why?
DanaC;633993 wrote:As a little aside; apparently one of the euphemisms for prostitutes during the 18th century (in some regions) was 'painted moths'.
One of the Professors at uni has as his particular focus 'Vice and consumerism in the long eighteenth century'. Some of the books in his collection are very interesting.
Apparently our university library's Special Collections section has a fairly big collection of eighteenth-century erotica and porn.
Elspode;633964 wrote:2) Dog style is free? Why?