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09 September
Courtesy of Model Society - What is permissible on facebook?
Interestingly, this image is considered permissible to be shown on Facebook. What are the precise rules that determine when the amount of nudity of a photograph transgresses facebook regulations? And is the policy the same for paintings?
06 September
Erotic Victorian Novels, Part II
Venus in Furs
Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch, 1870
This famous erotic and somewhat autobiographical work is
actually the origin of the term masochism (for those who wonder, we can thank
the Marquis de Sade for “sadism”). The protagonist, Severin, is infatuated by a
beautiful woman and offers himself as her slave. Obsessed with his total
submission to her, he urges the woman, Wanda, to humiliate and degrade him more
and more cruelly as the story goes on. The book is focused on fetish and
S&M, and remains very popular.
It’s more of a literary drama than the usual explicit
offering. You can read the book on-line. Roman Polanski adopted Venus in Furs
for the silver screen in 2012.
The Autobiography of a Flea
Anonymous, 1887 or 1888
A work of social satire with a wafer thin plot containing
many erotic scenes as witnessed by a flea (hitching a ride on a young woman)
traveling from home to home and peeping at the sexual activities of the
residents. What does the flea see? Quite a lot, including explicit intimacy,
group encounters, lusty priests, seduction of the innocent, deflowering,
incest, corporal punishment, and bukkake. Many of the characters are caricature
types that would have been recognized by 19th century readers.
The Lustful Turk
Anonymous, 1828
Another slight cheat since this one’s pre-Victorian, but the
popular and notorious novel remained in print even into the 20th century. Given
the 19th century appetite for exotic places and cultures (and more than a touch
of xenophobia), the Lustful Turk satisfied readers on several levels. An
English lady writes letters to her friends back home about her capture by Turks
and forcible ravishment, after which she wholeheartedly embraces a variety of
explicit, erotic encounters with men and women in the Sultan’s harem. The book
is so popular it was even made into a sexploitation film in 1968.
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