Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

Literary historical novel following astronomers Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon from their 1761 transit-of-Venus expedition through the surveying of the Mason-Dixon line in colonial America, narrated in eighteenth-century prose with digressions on science, slavery, empire, and folklore.

This book’s main concerns are; animal cruelty/neglect, BDSM, controversial and inflammatory religious commentary, dubious consent, explicit sexual nudity, gore, kinks, fetishes, patently offensive sexual content, pornographic material referenced, prostitution, prurient behaviors, sexual and reproductive exploitation, sexual activities, sexual dialogue, slavery, and violence.