Whore dialogues

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"Whore dialogues" are a literary genre of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Examples include the Ragionamenti by Pietro Aretino, The School of Venus (1680), Venus in the Cloister (1725), and A Dialogue Between a Married Lady and a Maid (1740). These are dramatic conversations between an older, experienced woman and a younger, inexperienced maid. They combine sex education, medical folklore, and erotic literature.

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When Flesh Becomes Word: An Anthology of Early Eighteenth-Century Libertine Literature (2004) by Bradford K. Mudge