This news article discusses six famous authors who incorporated smutty or edgy content into their work. Norman Mailer had to clean up the language in his book "The Naked and the Dead" by replacing the word "fuck" with "fug." Dashiell Hammett managed to include risque material in his book "The Maltese Falcon," including the term "gunsel" which means both a young man used for sex and a gunman. Shakespeare also had hidden dirty jokes in his work, such as euphemisms for vagina and a pissing gag. Additionally, there were unknown dick jokes found in a computer analysis of a 2006 text. Latin was also used to hide filth, with the earliest known f-bomb being encoded in a 15th-century poem. Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" has a line that could be interpreted as a butt-sex joke. Lastly, Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" contains humor involving
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