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about 250 years older than that!
1698–1700 [UK] N. Ward London Spy VII: Nor one whore that could have the impudence to ask above Six-pence Wet and Six-pence Dry, for an hour of her Cursed Company.
1832 [UK] Satirist (London) 9 Sept.: [T]he saying has become common, when speaking of what they consider a low girl, ‘Oh! the creature’s wet: she goes to the Piccadilly Saloon’.
1888–94 [UK] ‘Walter’ My Secret Life: Was it not lovely, Charlotte, is not your thing wet?
1920s [US] ‘All Night Long’ in G. Logsdon Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing: We drank one or two as other folks do, / The night was wet, but she got wetter.
1941 [US] in G. Legman Limerick: Her twat would get wet / And would wiggle and fret, / And her cunt-lips would curl and unfurl.
1949 [US] H. Miller Sexus: She was wet as a goose now.