Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Venus’s highway n.

the vagina.

1591		Lyly Man in the Moone IV iii: Is it not a shame [...] hauing liued so long in Mars his Campe, thou shouldest now bee rockt in Venus Cradle.
1606		Wily Beguiled 10: He pleades my want of wealth, / And saies it is a barre in Venus Court.
1607		G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act I: ilf.: Hast not thou been a whoremaster? har.: In youth I swill’d my fill at Venus’ cup.
1654		Mercurius Fumigosus 25 15–22 Nov. 215: He [...] found Vulcan hard at work upon Venus Anvill, no whit daunted at the terribleness of the Sergeants Mace, she would not suffer him to budge an ynch till he had done his work.
1685–8		‘Devosnshire Damsels’ Frollick’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) I 164: The Young [men] freely repairing declaring / that this is the humours of Venus Court.
1707		Humours of a Coffee-House 10 Oct. 34: I am sorry to see him so very much out of Order. I with Love’s Dragon, that often lurks in the Garden of Venus, has bit him by the Rudder of his Affections.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy III 342: For when you have possession got, / Of venus Mark, or Hony-pot.
a.1749		Robertson of Struan ‘Spoke by an Old Man’ in Poems (1752) 80: To plow the Ground on Venus’ Field.
c.1750		‘New Dialogue between Mars and Venus’ in Holloway & Black (1975) I 188: Thro’ Venus’s hall you may go throu to get it [i.e. her ‘castle’].
1775		‘Miss Larg’ in Ranger’s Impartial List of the Ladies of Pleasure in Edinburgh n.p.: Whenever she is offering insence at the Shrine of Venus, her whole frame is in agitation with pleasure.
1797		M. Leeson Memoirs (1995) III 186: This whimsical affair caused great laughter, and a poor figure as my hero cut in the groves of Venus, yet he certainly was the conqueror by a chalk.
1801		C. Dibdin Yngr Song Smith 143: The Temples of Venus in Hedge-lane are seen, / And Hymen’s old Temples at Gretna-green.
1826		C.M. Westmacott Eng. Spy II 368: Meer Cyprian traders, captain, from the Gulf of Venus, engaged in gudgeon hawling, or on the look-out for flat fish.
1881		J.C. Reddie Amatory Experiences of a Surgeon 88: My cock was ready enough, so I gently introduced him to Venus’ wrinkle.
1889		C. Deveureux Venus in India I 38: That bosom with its hills of living snow topped with rosy fire and that more than voluptous motte, a perfect ‘hill of Venus,’ clothed with the richest dark bushes of curly hair. [Ibid.] 97: Finding her waistband loosened, it had explored the sweet pastures of her silvery belly, and crossing the rough surface grass of the mount of Venus. As my fingers pressed in Cupid’s furrow, the lovely little clitoris, ever on the watch, had sprung up to salute it with a moist and eager kiss.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues VII 273/2: The female pudendum [...] Venus’s secret cell (highway or honeypot).
1904		Lustful Memoirs of a Young and Passionated Girl 63: Once more I drew from him that delicious tribute which all men must pay who worship at the shrine of Venus.
c.1920s		in P. Smith Letter from My Father (1978) 109: She had a great bush of hair on the mouth of her Venus.