/Of Dolls and Dildos in the Eighteenth Century
Sex and artifice
By Christina Voss
When the French traveler Georges-Louis Lesage (1676-1759) visited England from 1713 to 1714, he observed women in St. James Park carrying baskets of dolls and selling them to the local women. The odd thing is that the dolls were simply a cylinder, covered with cloth, about six inches long and...
- 02/06/2011
