John Cleland

John Cleland (1721–1771) was an English novelist.

His best-known book,  Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749; banned as obscene for many years), includes a scene in which Fanny watches fascinated as two young men have sex. This, and the fact that the many heterosexual sex scenes in the book are written from a woman's point of view, have led to speculation that Cleland might have been gay.