LOL Stendhal, I still want to smack all your characters but you are an entertaining dude.

I really should update about the past three days, because ladyhamilton (friend-from-Edinburgh) and I did kind of a whirlwind tour of Paris. It's one of those "too much to write about, so I will write nothing" things--I couldn't possibly summarize it, except that there was lots of nerdy cackling involved, and I am probably a very bad (and excessively morbid) tour guide. And now my mom is here, and I have been looking at my schedule for the next two months and hyperventilating as I realize I will have no time to do ANY of my schoolwork.

So instead of giving a blow-by-blow, I am going to go the route of "posting about completely irrelevant things," i.e. things only me and mmebahorel will find interesting, i.e. the question (spread over many threads about Les Mis slash) of how taboo oral sex was in the 1820s and 30s.

And I found a reference--to oral sex performed on a woman, not on a man, but in the context of married couples and real-life manwhores instead of the usual porn-and-prostitutes. Basically, Stendhal writing to Prosper Mérimée about male impotence, alluding to ways husbands can keep their wives entertained if they can't get it up. And completely dropping the coy façade of Armance to reveal the raunch underneath.

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LOL Stendhal, I still want to smack all your characters but you are an entertaining dude.

I really should update about the past three days, because ladyhamilton (friend-from-Edinburgh) and I did kind of a whirlwind tour of Paris. It's one of those "too much to write about, so I will write nothing" things--I couldn't possibly summarize it, except that there was lots of nerdy cackling involved, and I am probably a very bad (and excessively morbid) tour guide. And now my mom is here, and I have been looking at my schedule for the next two months and hyperventilating as I realize I will have no time to do ANY of my schoolwork.

So instead of giving a blow-by-blow, I am going to go the route of "posting about completely irrelevant things," i.e. things only me and mmebahorel will find interesting, i.e. the question (spread over many threads about Les Mis slash) of how taboo oral sex was in the 1820s and 30s.

And I found a reference--to oral sex performed on a woman, not on a man, but in the context of married couples and real-life manwhores instead of the usual porn-and-prostitutes. Basically, Stendhal writing to Prosper Mérimée about male impotence, alluding to ways husbands can keep their wives entertained if they can't get it up. And completely dropping the coy façade of Armance to reveal the raunch underneath.

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