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As to Don Juan, confess - confess, you dog (and be candid), that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing. It may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? - and tooled in the post-chaise? In a hackney coach? In a gondola? Against a wall? In a court carriage? In a vis-à-vis? On a table - and under it? I have written about a hundred stanzas of a third Canto, but it is damned modest - the outcry has frightened me. I had such projects for the Don, but the cant is so much stronger than cunt nowadays, that the benefit of experience in a man who had well weighed the worth of both monosyllables must be lost to despairing posterity.

From Letter from Lord Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1819. Cited in City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-century London

It is very interesting how the fashion changed, and the erotic image in print became censored.

Byron said "Cant is so much stronger than cunt nowadays".

Le Débat du cueur et du corps de Villon

RIP Griselda Blanco[1] (1943 - 2012), drug lord for the Medellín Cartel and a pioneer in the Miami-based cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1970s and early 1980s.

I love the anonymous photo.