{"id":3741,"date":"2011-05-18T22:23:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T22:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2011-05-18T22:23:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T22:23:06","slug":"interesting-18th-century-acknowledgement-of-female-sexual-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=3741","title":{"rendered":"Interesting 18th-century acknowledgement of female sexual desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Bartholomew&#8217;s Fair in London &#8220;many a handsome wench exchanges her maidenhead for a small favour, such as a moiety of bone lace, a slight silver bodkin, a hoopt-ring, or the like toye; for she comes not thither with her sweet-heart, to serve her owne turne only, but also to satisfy her desire&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(An anonymous quote in &#8211; Dianne Payne &#8220;Smithfield&#8217;s Bartholomew Fair&#8221; The Historian, No 109, Spring 2011, pp. 12-16 &#8211; yes I&#8217;d really like that reference to have more information, but from the context I&#8217;d guess 18th century! The article is, however, beautifully illustrated.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Bartholomew&#8217;s Fair in London &#8220;many a handsome wench exchanges her maidenhead for a small favour, such as a moiety of bone lace, a slight silver bodkin, a hoopt-ring, or the like toye; for she comes not thither with her sweet-heart, to serve her owne turne only, but also to satisfy her desire&#8230;&#8221; (An anonymous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3759,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions\/3759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}