Depraved and fun: how the classics wrote about sex

The classics have always been sexy — all those percy, lanita, and mossy delights bouncing through the pages of geniuses like a gang of pranksters.

We just couldn't get past it and decided to share it, because the classics wrote about sex really exciting — fun and passionate.

Guy de Maupassant "Life" 1883

Anatole France "Belshazzar" 1886

Victor Hugo "Notre-Dame de Paris" 1831

Henry Fielding "The Story of the late Jonathan Wilde the Great" 1743

Long"Daphnis and Chloe»Approximately II century AD.

Ivan Bunin "Mitya's Love" 1924

Emile Zola "Germinal" 1885

Alexander Kuprin "Sulamith" 1908

Charles Bukowski "Women" 1978

Keywords: Culture | Sexuality | Classics | Sex | Literature | Writers

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