When I came to write about this amorous fun, I wondered why I had taken a big woman like the Jewess. I have had enough big, fully matured ones, intended to have no more, and my taste now runs in another direction. Yet I selected her — I cannot account for these sudden letches which upset all my intentions.
It was my letch for the time, I was in the vein for cunt inspection and the night following went to another lapunar, not of the highest class. I had not much want for female aid or conjunction, but an overwhelming, insatiable desire to see all that the women had hidden of their bodies, to compare and note differences, and ask every one of them questions about their sexual tastes, sensations, and habits. I have done that for many many years, have asked scores of times on first acquaintance, expecting more frequently lies than the truth, yet still I asked. — It is delightful in itself to put the lascivious questions, searching for the most hidden thoughts, feelings, and deeds of these lovely creatures. — When I have known a woman or girl a short time, I have nearly always got their confidence, and then over a bottle of wine, when its generous influence has been felt, I have but little doubt that I got in the main truthful replies.
Long before this period I prepared a set of questions, of which I knew the order pretty well by heart, through repetition. — At about this time I bethought me of additional questions about tribadism, of cunt to cunt rubbing, or as it is called flat fucking; but to which amusement it is only of recent years that I gave attention, or that these feminine games gave me much sensual pleasure to think about, or had roused my curio-sity. — From hundreds of answers to these questions, coupled with my own experience in facts, I think I have as good a knowledge of the sexual tastes and habits of men and women as most; excepting old baudy priests, who know all through confession. — The replies of many of the females, particularly of the young ones, I know already have been given in various parts of this history.
I have had many servants. All had been poor, and in their youth had nursed their brothers if they had any. Many had been nursemaids when they left their homes. — Some were nursemaids when I fucked them. They enjoyed my talk on sexualities. It is one of the additional pleasures which servant girls, and women who are not gay, give me. — It adds to the physical pleasure which they always give and always have with me, for a servant if she will take money, and gifts (and all women will, for that is my experience) have met me, and surrendered to me, for the pleasure of fucking, and not for money.
As before said (often perhaps — I forget) I always got the confidence and liking of gay women when I visited them regularly. They at times like reminiscences of lust and of their precocious experience, and will often talk freely when there are one or two to-gether, and are a little known to each other. (Two gay ladies of late have often met me together in baudy companionship.) Then over a bottle of champagne or two, they generally will exchange confidences, answer my questions, and tell the truth to each other and to me, tho I have found some manifest liars even when their tongues were loosened by liquor. These were principally the leading questions, which I have put to hundreds, the first mainly to the quite young and youngish, the more searching to females of all ages. — The first twenty or thereabouts I have always asked servants and young girls and nursemaids.
At what age does a little boy's cock get stiff? When do you think a boy first feels pleasure in its stiffness?
At what early age do you think a boy can spend? Did you ever make a boy's cock stiff? Did you ever frig a boy till he spent and what was the youngest you made spend?
Did he spend quickly? did it spurt out? was his spunk thick or thin? was there much of it?
How old was the youngest boy, who wanted to put his hands up your clothes, or was curious about your sex or your cunt?
At what age did you know what fucking was?
At what age did you first know that you had a womb, and that children came out thro cunts?
How old were you when you first felt randy? How old when you first frigged yourself?
How old when you were first fucked?
Did you spend at the first fuck, or if not did you feel any pleasure at all?
Did your first fuck hurt you much, and did you bleed much?
How long was your cunt sore afterwards?
When during a month do you feel most lewed, before or after your monthlies, or whilst they are on?
Does your clitoris get stiffer when you frig yourself, or you feel lewed?
Did you ever frig a girl? What age was the youngest girl you have frigged?
Do many girls frig each other?
Are there any girls after twelve years of age who don't frig themselves?
If girls want the pleasure, do any restrain themselves from frigging?
At what time of day or night do they generally frig themselves?
How often have you ever frigged yourself in twenty-four hours?
Did you ever lick another girl's cunt?
Did another girl lick your cunt?
Which do you like best, fucking, or frigging yourself, or being frigged, or having your cunt licked till you spend?
Do you like licking a girl's cunt?
Do you like being licked by a man or a woman?
The further questions to the fully experienced women in the Ars Amoris, were:
Do you like sucking a man's prick, and have you sucked one?
Do you like the feel of a prick in your mouth best when it's stiff, or when it's limp?
Do you mind or like his spending in your mouth? Which do you like best — fucking or being gamahuched?
Which do you like best, a man or woman to gamahuche you?
Do you like gamahuching a nice woman?
Do you like a finger up your cunt when you are gamahuched, or up your bum hole?
Do you generally spend with men, or with a man who is new to you and fucks you for the first time?
Do you like fucking as much as you did when you wereseventeen?
Do you like being dildoed?
Which gives you most pleasure, being gamachuched, frigged, or dildoed, or fucked?
Did you ever suck a man's cock while you were being gamahuched?
Does flat fucking give you much, and prolonged pleasure?
Are you longer before you spend that way than when being fucked?
Do the two women flat fucking usually spend at the same time?
Does your cunt feel as satisfied flat fucking as it does after a man has fucked and spent his sperm in you?
Did you ever see a man buggering another, or one sucking another's prick?
Did you ever swallow a man's sperm?
How does sperm taste?
Does sperm seem a nasty fluid to you?
Were you ever buggered and do you like it?
These are leading questions. The replies suggest others. — The answers given to them by many women will, coupled with a man's own wide experience and observation of women, leave him but very little to learn about them; and enable him to form sound opinions about their sexual tastes and habits, and the phenomena accompanying their lust and spending, as well as about the habits and tastes of men.
Now I go back to the regular order of my history, as it followed after my erotic gambols with a man at Sarah's lodgings. Again I was at B***s*ls and went to a well known lapunar, tho not the one where a year previously I had eight women of a night to inspect; nor that where I had the big Jewess, and the flaxen hair cunted Dutch girl. — I was with a tallish, rather slim woman, with legs and thighs and backside disproportionately large to her arms and breasts. I was not much enamoured of her when I had her in the room, and did not at first attempt to inspect her charms nor did I think she was much pleased with me. Gay women have their likes and dislikes like other people, and some of them show their indifference (once in Italy at N*p**s, I recollect a lovely little girl about sixteen years old refusing to let me have her, saying, “I don't like you and you shan't,” — and she left the room). This girl didn't like me, I'm sure. “Mon Dieu! haven't you seen enough,” said she, when tardily and without speaking I began my inspection. Her manner quite chilled me, my pego did not stand, but anticipating its rise in time, I began asking her one or two of the questions I usually do of gay women, whom I have seen for the first time. — I was not inclined to talk much, but to sit looking at her and thinking about her — I have been much like that during the last few years with gay women.