 While the text satirised the literary conventions and fashionable manners of 18th century England, it was more scandalous for depicting a woman, the narrator, enjoying and even reveling in sexual acts with no dire moral or physical consequences.The text is hardly explicit as Cleland wrote the entire book using euphemisms for sex acts and body parts, employing 50 different ones just for the term penis.Two small earthquakes were credited to the book by the Bishop of London and Cleland was arrested and briefly imprisoned, but "Fanny Hill" continued to be published and is one of the most reprinted books in the English language.