Mettle in Your Merkin:

VictoriAn sex Slang

Professor Calamity

Victorians, like everyone else, came up with an end-

less number of creative and euphemistic sayings to cover a
dizzying variety of human sexual encounters and body parts.
Below is a small sampling of popular Victorian sex slang taken
from erotic novels (from 1840–1899) popular in both Eng-
land and the US. So if you want to seduce a steampunker or
talk dirty to a neo-Vic it might be good to practice using the
parlance of love from the 19th century.

ARE YOU GOOD NATURED, DEAR?: prostitute proposition

for services

BAWD: female pimp

That bawd has a whole stable of bobtails that make her money.

BELLS: nipples
Sally likes it when her bells are lightly pinched while making love.
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