In a little naughty Wednesday history lesson, we delve into the secret affair of America’s 29th president: Warren Harding. He should have been writing erotic novels or making porn… his talent was wasted as the president of the United States.

You may not know this name all that well, after all he did not spend long in office and did not achieve anything particularly great during this time. We should also note that these letters were written mostly before his time in office as the president.

The Library of Congress will this month release more than 100 breathlessly passionate notes written by Harding to his mistress of 15 years.

The handwritten letters by the the 29th president contain some of the most sexually-explicit language ever credited to an American head of state.

“I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips and then bury my face on your pillowing breasts,” he told Carrie Fulton Phillips, the wife of one of his best friends, in a 1913 letter.

In a minor concession to modesty, Harding would refer to his erection as “Jerry”, describing it like an insistent friend who would arrive without warning and stay beyond his welcome.

“Jerry came and will not go, says he loves you, that you are the only, only love worthwhile in all this world,” Harding wrote. “He is so utterly devoted that he only exists to give you all. I fear you would find a fierce enthusiast today.”

In one letter penned just before the end of the First World War, Harding said simply: “Wish I could take you to Mount Jerry”.