Whore dialogues are a literary genre of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment and a type of erotic fiction. The first example was the Ragionamenti by Pietro Aretino, followed by works such as Ferrante Pallavicino's La Retorica delle Puttane, L'Ecole des Filles attributed to Michel Millot and Jean L'Ange, and The Dialogues of Luisa Sigea by Nicolas Chorier. Such works typically concerned the sexual education of a naive young woman by an experienced older woman and often included philosophizing, medical folklore, satire and anti-clericalism, with the later works in the genre indulging in more sophisticated sexual fantasy and serving as precursors to the more explicit pornography that followed in Europe.
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Notable ExampleRagionamenti by Pietro Aretino 1 Defining TraitSexual education of a naive young woman by an experienced older woman 1 Sources
1. Whore dialogues - Wikipedia
Introduction, first example
The first example was the Ragionamenti by Pietro Aretino
Introduction, typical content
Such works typically concerned the sexual education of a naïve young woman by an experienced older woman and often included elements of philosophising, medical folklore, satire and anti-clericalism.
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