Ribald Classic:the Fierce Machine
October, 1979
from Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, by John Cleland, 1749I, having expressed severest doubts and saying that I could not conceive of affording entrance for that fearful machine without dying in the greatest pain, Phoebe asked me if I knew Polly Philips.I said that I did--but to what purpose did she ask? "You must know," Phoebe said, "that she is kept by a young Genoese merchant, on business in London. She receives him thrice a week in her light closet, up one pair...
