Even when the courtesan farts She does it as a favour

-Anonymous
^ c.1616^1853  Collected in R H Blyth Senryo:  Japanese Satirical Verses Translated and Explained (1949).

La courtisane est un mythe. Jamais une femme n'a invente¤   une de¤ b auche. The courtesan is a myth. No woman has ever invented any new sensual pleasure.

-Flaubert, Gustave
  Letter to Mme Louise Colet,  Aug.