erotica

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• SOURCE: Observer
  10/19/2022
  

  We Discovered the Archive of a Sex Education Academy; Is its Value for Auction or Research?

  by Allison Miller

  What happened when a historian and an archivist-in-training tracked down the much-rumored but long unseen archives of a defunct institute for the study of sexuality? 

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• SOURCE: WGBH
  1/4/2022
  

  New Boston MFA Exhibit Shows Museum's Complex History of Censoring Queer Desire

  by Erin L. Thompson

  "When I first visited Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, as a young and deeply closeted queer college student, I found myself wondering if the museum possessed ancient Greek vases decorated with anything other than sex scenes."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/27/2021
  

  EBay Deletes the Queer Past

  The online auction company's decision may make it difficult for historians of LGBTQ cultures and of sexuality to build archives of historically signicant erotica. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  

  Lifting the Veil on the New York Public Library’s Erotica Collection

  A special classification once marked restricted materials, like pulp novels warning of “beatniks perverts” or William Faulkner’s secret drawings of sex with his mistress.

• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5-9-13
  

  Hugo Schwyzer: I Teach a College Class on How to Think and Talk About Pornography

  Hugo Schwyzer teaches history and gender studies at Pasadena City College.  He is co-author of Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir."What do you study in a 'porn class'?" I've gotten that question almost daily since "Navigating Pornography"—a humanities course I offer at Pasadena City College—received national attention in the aftermath of a controversial classroom visit in February by adult superstar James Deen. The queries have grown even more frequent since last week's widely covered announcement that Porn Studies, a new periodical devoted to the study of "cultural products and services designated as pornographic" will make its debut in 2014.

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• No Kinky Porn, Please -- We're English

  by Robin Lindley

  Letícia Román in a publicity still for Russ Meyer's 1964 film adaptation of Fanny Hill. Actual illustrations from Fanny Hill are decidedly NSFW.In England, the eighteenth century was a time of questioning, exploration, scientific advances, and an expanded worldview -- the birth of modernity, according to some historians.This age of remarkable energy and innovation also saw an explosion of erotic literature that reflected dynamic social and cultural changes as it challenged the authority of Church and State, satirized the hypocritical, and explored the fantasies of its consumers.