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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I fear the quality of the text went downhill from the titillating title page onwards. They're selling moralizing in the guise of prurience.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/25/wow-now-i-really-want-to-read-this-book/
Attachments:
- The Crafty Whore: or, The mistery and iniquity of BAWDY HOUSES Laid open, the dialogue between two SUBTLE BAWDS, wherein, as in a mirrour, our CITY-CURTESANS may face their sould-destroying Are, and Crafty devices, whereby they Insnare and beguile Youth, pourtraled to the life, By the PENSELL of one of their late, (but now penitent) CAPTIVES, for the benefit of all, but especially the younger sort. Whereunto is added DEHORTATIONS from LUST Drawn from the SAD and LAMENTABLE Consequences it produceth. (remote)
