No.310 [Open thread]
Concerning Tales Olde and Antiquated of Ye Singuler Creature known as a "Cuckqueane"
We know that cuckqueaning is older than any of us and that from time to time, we have been mentioned in writing whether fictional or factual. Cuckqueaning throughout history thread!
First, some old smut. In the Bibliography of Forbidden Books, Volume 3, I found this little gem:
>I cannot better terminate this bibliographical attempt, in which English fiction so largely figures, than by noticing two tales which reach me as these pages are passing through the press:
Abishag; a Luscious Tale of a Successful Physiological Search after Rejuvenescence, Fully disclosing the Secret of the only natural and true Elixer capable of effecting such a desirable necessity. By David II. Jerusalem 1851.
>This is a husband's confession of infidelity to his wife, and the Elixer for rejuvenescence, promised on the title-page, is nothing more than the contact of a young girl. Taking the episode of David and Abishag for his text, the narrator tells us how, tiring of his wife six months after marriage, he has connection with Jemima, his servant maid, and continues the intimacy for two years, until she gets a husband. As he grows older his power of satisfying his wife diminishes, until he seduces Jemima's successor, "a young orphan girl of about eighteen, who has never been in service before," and finds himself in a position to serve both mistress and maid. His wife compliments him on his return of vigour, and enquires the cause, which, after some hesitation, he discloses. His partner expresses surprise that such girls can have so much influence, but, being an accommodating woman, she determined to keep the secret, and to profit by the discovery. On Polly's departure to wed "a particularly well hung young butcher," she engages another docile maid, "always making a change every three months or so, as fresh girls are most effective."
>The idea of a wife condoning, and even profiting by her husband's libertinism, if not strictly new, is at any rate not hackneyed, and a more thorough, less flimsy treatment than in the volume before us might have secured an attractive narrative.
Only one copy is known to exist and is in a private collection.
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No.3042
From Behind Every Great Man: The Forgotten Women Behind the World's Famous and Infamous, we have this lovely note from Aldous Huxley's (author of Brave New World) wife.
I know what she means by
>smelt so strongly of you still that it made me giddy
so much. Somehow scent makes it all so real.
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No.3043
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No.3057
>>363
>>518
>>1097
>>2340
Here's more - this one's by Kitagawa Utamaro.
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No.4340
>>363
>>3057
I recently found what these sort of images may have been inspired by: The shogun and his concubines.
From Mistress-Keeping in Japan: The Pitfalls and the Pleasures:
>Then everyone went to bed: The shogun and his mistress for the night in the centre of the room and a female servant behind a folding screen in the same room. This servant had to remain dressed and stay awake all night. It was her duty to listen to any conversation between the shogun and the girl and to report whatever she heard the following morning. In addition, two other women were posted in an adjoining room to note down everything that happened in the ruler's bed chamber.
>This practice of watching and listening to the shogun go about his manly expressions was for the purpose of proving whether or not the ruler was responsible if his bed partner became pregnant and of preventing the lucky lady from making use of the occasion to present the ruler with a private petition or to engage in political machinations with him.
From http://www.lesleydowner.com/secrets-of-the-shoguns-harem/ :
>When the shogun slept with a concubine, the whole procedure was tightly regulated. First the girl had to be stripped and searched to make sure there were no weapons or notes on her body or in her long luxurious hair. No hairpins were allowed and combs had to be checked to make sure there was no cutting edge. If it was the girl’s first time, one of the old ladies would check she was a virgin. Once she and the shogun were in bed, there would be two ladies-in-waiting lying wide awake in the room, one on each side. Two more listened behind screens not far way, to ensure that the girl did not make any requests for herself or her family.
>No doubt all this formality was as oppressive for the shogun as for the concubine. The early shoguns took to spending a lot of time in tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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No.11288
>>3043
Just added omnifutuent to Wiktionary.
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