Author: Henry Spencer Ashbee
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602069719
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 661
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In this final volume of the 1877 work that established him as England's leading authority on pornography, Henry Spencer Ashbee describes scores of "curious, uncommon and erotic books" that were banned or otherwise prohibited from legitimate sale during the Victorian era. Included in this volume are such "gentlemen only" titles as Intrigues and Confessions of a Ballet Girl, The Pleasures of Kissing and Being Kissed, and the infamous Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. This catalog of mostly forgotten works is an invaluable-and highly entertaining-resource for bibliophiles, students of erotica, and collectors of Victoriana. British book collector, travel writer, and bibliographer HENRY SPENCER ASHBEE (1834-1900), aka Pisanus Fraxi, is thought by some to have authored the notorious Victorian sexual memoir My Secret Life.
Author: Donna Dennis
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674053731
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Licentious Gotham, set in the streets, news depots, publishing houses, grand jury chambers, and courtrooms of the nation's great metropolis, delves into the stories of the enterprising men and women who created a thriving transcontinental market for sexually arousing books and pictures. The experiences of fancy publishers, flash editors, and racy novelists, who all managed to pursue their trade in the face of laws criminalizing obscene publications, dramatically convey nineteenth-century America's daring notions of sex, gender, and desire, as well as the frequently counterproductive results of attempts to enforce conventional moral standards. In nineteenth-century New York, the business of erotic publishing and legal attacks on obscenity developed in tandem, with each activity shaping and even promoting the pursuit of the other. Obscenity prohibitions, rather than curbing salacious publications, inspired innovative new styles of forbidden literature--such as works highlighting expressions of passion and pleasure by middle-class American women. Obscenity prosecutions also spurred purveyors of lewd materials to devise novel schemes to evade local censorship by advertising and distributing their products through the mail. This subterfuge in turn triggered far-reaching transformations in strategies for policing obscenity. Donna Dennis offers a colorful, groundbreaking account of the birth of an indecent print trade and the origins of obscenity regulation in the United States. By revealing the paradoxes that characterized early efforts to suppress sexual expression in the name of morality, she suggests relevant lessons for our own day.
Author: Henry Spencer Ashbee
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Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Author: Henry Spencer Ashbee
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Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Author: Henry Spencer Ashbee
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Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Author: Henry Spencer Ashbee
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Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Author: Henry Spencer Ashbee
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Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Author: Marie Carmichael Stopes
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Category : Husband and wife
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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