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This book is a fascinating and in-depth look at Victorian lower class prostitutes and their upper class client base. The anonymous author, a decidedly upper class gentleman apparently went through at least three fortunes which underwrote his obsessive need for paid sex, which... Read Full Overview

My Secret Life portrays a period of time in the Victorian era through the eyes of a young man coming of age through "varied delights... whims and fancies normal and abnormal" including sexual violence, fetishes and hundreds of sexual encounters with cousins, nursemaids, and multiple... Read Full Overview

"My Secret Life is by far the most famous and the longest erotic autobiography written in the nineteenth century. It has in it invaluable material for social and cultural historians, literary scholars, students of manners and morals - and it has more of what we might call 'encounters'... Read Full Overview

This famous anonymous account of the author's promiscuous and daring sexual activities is a classic of erotica. The narrator, Walter, goes in to explicit detail about his sexual experiences from his boyhood into his young manhood and maturity. This classic of erotica is not for... Read Full Overview

The erotic memoir of a Victorian gentleman.

My Secret Life, by "Walter", is the memoir of a gentleman describing the author's sexual development and experiences in Victorian England. It was first published in a private edition of eleven volumes, at the expense of the author, including an imperfect index, which appeared... Read Full Overview

My Secret Life Volumes I to III By an Anonymous Author or Walter My Secret Life, by "Walter", is the memoir of a gentleman describing the author's sexual development and experiences in Victorian England. It was first published in a private edition of eleven volumes, which appeared... Read Full Overview

This book contains all three volumes of My Secret Life.

From his precocious childhood to the end of what he calls his "amatory career," an adventurous Victorian known only as "Walter" records a breathtaking carnal epic through hundreds of sexual encounters with one or more nursemaids, prostitutes, cousins, actresses, workingmen, and... Read Full Overview