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'''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.<ref>David Leavitt, introduction to the Penguin edition of E M Forster's ''Maurice'', page xxxii.</ref> 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.<ref>David M Robinson, ''Closeted writing and lesbian and gay literature: classical, early modern, eighteenth-century''. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd, 2006. page 38. ISBN 0-7546-5550-4.</ref>

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 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.<ref>David Leavitt, introduction to the Penguin edition of E M Forster's ''Maurice'', page xxxii.</ref> 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.<ref>David M Robinson, ''Closeted writing and lesbian and gay literature: classical, early modern, eighteenth-century''. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd, 2006. page 38. ISBN 0-7546-5550-4.</ref>
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