Porn Budget:

£4.00 per annum

"You must be vastly mistaken in the article of £4 a year to C---l.* That had certainly been a properer article of my estimate; for the batchelor never gratifies his passion, but when nature of its own accord dictates; but when married, and it becomes an expected duty, there will, to preserve peace at home, be a greater occasion to have recourse to luscious books, to raise that passion, that by frequent repitition, and with the same object, would otherwise grow faint and languid."

Edward Ward - response to a critic of his Batchelor's Advocate

in his later book None but Fools Marry (1730)

*Edmund Curll was a publisher and bookseller, notorious for hack-work, literary piracy and pornography. He was attacked in print, most famously by Alexander Pope, imprisoned and even pilloried; but in the stocks was cheered rather than attacked by the mob, and when released was carried off on their shoulders.