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Well here’s a spicy bit of history for you.

There’s an 17th century book out there which is essentially the English Kama Sutra and it’s absolutely cooked.

It’s called Aristotle’s Masterpiece Completed In Two Parts, The First Containing the Secrets of Generation, which isn’t really the sauciest title but it’s what’s on the inside that counts.

And within these pages is glorious, 17th century smut.

The “sex manual” was banned for nearly 300 years, but is in the news right now as British auction house Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers prepares to sell a copy of the book in March.

Manuscript valuer Jim Spencer Hansons said it was very, very risqué.

[Image via Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers]