"Gushing Out Blood": Defloration and menstruation in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

John Cleland’s 1740s pornographic novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure repeatedly depicts and eroticises the act of defloration. As such it is a revealing illustration of what Ivan Bloch termed the ‘defloration mania’ of the eighteenth century. This article maps narrative events on to contemporary...

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Main Author:	Sara Read
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2016
Subjects:	Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified Philosophy not elsewhere classified Defloration Menstruation Hymenal bleeding Sex Medicine Eighteenth century Cleland Philosophy Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/23625
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