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Any reading man throughout recorded history has been confronted with the bawdy and naughty thoughts of his predecessors, from the lewd and crude in Boccaccio to Chaucer to Sappho to Shakespeare, from The Perfumed Garden to The Plum in the Golden Vase, to the roots of Japanese tentacle porn in Japanese woodblock shunga prints.
But Mr O'Connor also shows the Molly behind the mask; her thoughts are a stream of bawdy Irishisms that belie her ladylike conduct.
We could profitably ask why we are so keen to project prudery and purity of thought on to 19th-century writers, when there's bawdy humour to be found everywhere.
I came to Chaucer thinking, like everybody else, that he's a bawdy poet, light.
They were a place where a child could learn that books could be mind-blowing, unpredictable, bawdy and frightening, that books could break down the divisions between nations, between foundations of thought, and between fantasy and reality.
My partner Ian and I were intrigued by its reputation for brazen flashiness and bawdy fun, while 11-year-old Alice and her friend Hannah were beside themselves at the thought of unlimited access to the Pleasure Beach.
Is it bawdy?
Scary parts and bawdy bits.
Philida is bawdy and brave.
"We're dirty and bawdy.
"Those roasts are very bawdy.
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