Voluptuous excess: Maritza has so many curves

Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure)

Letter The First

Here began the usual tender preliminaries, as delicious, perhaps, as the crowning act of enjoyment itself; which they often beget an impatience of, that makes pleasure destructive of itself, by hurrying on the final period, and closing that scene of bliss, in which the actors are generally too well pleas'd with their parts not to wish them an eternity of duration.

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