Jane Eyre: insights and revelations

Andy's brother forwarded this information. It's coarser than what we usually post around here, but I chuckled lightly:

Two notes found on the top and bottom of page 212 of the Senate House Library's copy of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre:

Let's not forget that the wonderful Mr. R[ochester] is the first and only man that our heroine has had the pleasure to meet. She's 18, a virgin, and no doubt bursting with hormones. Would it not be foolhardy to wed and bed Mr. R, thereby relinquishing all hopes of seeing what life and love lie beyond the sheltering confines of Thornfield and the surrounding hills?

and:

Let us not also forget that in a pre-AIDS society, a stiff British upper lip was as good a deterrent for sex as any coupled with conventional sexual attitudes and strict conformations to female coquetry. Having said that however, and being a red-blooded male, I masturbate fervently in the hope that Jane swallows gallons of Mr. R's spunk.