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From his precocious childhood to the end of what he calls his amatory career, an adventurous victorian known only as walter records a breathtaking carnal epic through hundreds of sexual encounters with one or more nursemaids, prostitutes, cousins, actresses. My secret life by an anonymous author amsterdam 1888 privately printed for subscribers. Full text ebook the two little episodes last narrated, tho shortened, took a long time to write, but are worth preserving, yet how short a time they really occupied me in the performance. Sex diary of a victorian gentleman volumes viii to xi my secret life sex diary of a victorian gentleman book 3 ebook. My secret life a classic victorian erotic novel by.
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