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Those classic literary works which were risque or had dodgy content for their time. I suggest written before 1950 (ideally much earlier to be a 'classic')
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message 1: by Antonomasia (new)

Antonomasia The Tenant of Wildfell Hall?? I love that book, but it's hardly smutty.


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