Love-Lust-Kink #20 Book 10. 8 Love-Sex-Erotic Public Domain Books from the Victorian Era

These books are a mix of love, sex and smut from the 18th and 19th centuries. I’m constantly amazed at how insightful and true these past writers are about what’s going on among people. Nothing has changed among the human race. I especially like the Laws of Etiquette written in 1836. We’re still as lonely and feel alone as ever, desperately searching for love, sex, fun and pleasure all at the same time which can’t work because you can’t have it all.

Once you marry, you sacrifice your free sex drive. All marriages fade in some way. The guy in Laws of Etiquette says be careful before you marry because you don’t know what you’re throwing away. Most people in marriages feel lonely. They did not get the deep love they wanted and now they’re stuck in a half-assed, lukewarm love.

The books are;

Sister Carrie (1900), by Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

A Love Episode, by Emile Zola (1840-1902)

Abbe Mouret's Transgression, by Emile Zola (1840-1902)

The Book of Romance (1902), by Various Authors, published by Longmans, Green, and Co.

Bible Romances (1882), by George W. Foote, a parody and critique of parts of the Bible

Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845), by Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Sex and Society (1913), by William I. Thomas (1863-1947), Studies in the Social Psychology of Sex

The Laws of Etiquette, by A Gentleman, Book Written in 1836

Chapter 1. Early Books on Sex & Love

Introduction to Public Domain Books on Love, Sex & Romance

The enlightened people of one generation die off. Their books fade away into near-oblivion then a group of enlightened people in succeeding generations have to discover life wisdom on their own all over again.

The writers are a few people from another era willing to go beyond the pale of conventional wisdom to feel what was there on their own terms.

I enjoy reading older books about love, sex and romance written before the time of the mass media explosion because they’re purer, fresher, freer and a lot more original than all the generic psychobabble bull we got posing as love, sex and romance knowledge nowadays.

These people in the past probably sat in little rooms without electricity writing out of a need and desire to try to understand themselves and pass this knowledge on out of some noble need within themselves to do something for humanity which was a lot more common back then because these writers knew they weren’t gonna get rich writing their books unlike today where it’s all about packaging a book with hype to make money.

The Marquis de Sade had all these sexual thoughts that were different than the conventional sexual knowledge of his day that he felt he had to express by writing about them.

I started writing this book because I felt that the monogamy brainwash of my youth wasn’t what I felt and the literary porn/ erotica I read was a bunch of fantasy so I never saw anyone trying to find truth or at least express it without getting too crude because I feel that the private thoughts and fantasies each of us has is way more primal and sexual than anything I’ve ever read about sex, love and romance, even the literary porn which is largely one-dimensional to help you get off quickly. All I saw was marketing sex and love books to make money.

When I finally got over my monogamy indoctrination, I realized I was an untamed hedonist and there was no reason for me to think that any other man with normal levels of testosterone was any different from me in the privacy of his mind.

We’re all the same physiologically. There are no great chasms of differences among the hormones men release which make them think sexual thoughts. The true test is how much does a man think freely versus how much does he allow himself to get indoctrinated by the rules and customs of the society he lives in.

That’s when I realized society is a big hypocrisy out of necessity because we have to act nonsexual out in public in order to have civil relations with e