While John Cleland was serving a sentence in a British debtors' prison in the 1700s, he realized that he had no access to the internet or cable TV, and utilized his time instead by imagining the lusty journal of a promiscuous "lady of the evening," whom he named FANNY HILL.  Without using any profanity, Cleland invented numerous double- and triple-entendre words and phrases to demonstrate the athletic abilities of young Fanny, and her stable of stallions (that's one of my OWN double entendres there, by the way).  After the book was originally published in 1748, it became one of the most litigious pieces of literature ever published (being banned hither and yon for obscenity, while yon and hither it was saluted for its verbal ingenuity and wit).  It was recognized as the first original English prose erotica (I was searching for an appropriate SINonym, and scored a pun, to boot!), as well as the first bit of naughty bawdiness to use the novel format.  

It eventually reached the United States, and met a similar fate, facing one set of judges and courts after another; until in 1966 the U. S. Supreme Court finally decided that FANNY HILL had been cruelly maligned for far too long, and that its "redeeming social value" placed its publication, distribution and sale beyond the ken of any further blue-noses or blue-coats.  It can even be purchased today from Barnes & Noble!  This copy, however, is from 1964, and predates the U. S. Supreme Court decision by 2 years, indicating that it was probably sold from "under the counter" at those brave (albeit cautious) bookstores that had originally chose to sell it, back when "fanny" was still a questionable euphemism.

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