Tag: pornography

Archives of Desire: Debbie Does Death

By Josh Adair September 29, 2016 Archives of Desire 0 comments

Even in death a Republican-appointed judge wanted to be remembered for his stance against pornography.

“A Poison More Deadly”: Defining Obscenity in the West

By Brian Watson May 10, 2016 United Kingdom 0 comments

Under the scrutiny of the British legal system, no work was safe from being deemed obscene.

Archives of Desire: Soft-Core Pornography and Activism in the 1960s

By Helis Sikk April 26, 2016 Archives of Desire, LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

The Los Angeles Advocate captured the essence of an important segment of the LGBTQ culture.

Queering de Sade

By notcheseditor November 27, 2014 LGBTQ 0 comments

Gert Hekma Over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the “divine marquis” influenced literature, philosophy, and artistic and social movements such as Surrealism, Situationism, and Provo. His name became a byword for cruelty and sexual perversion in popular culture, and, as his work was forbidden until the 1960s, for a long time […]

Intimate Worlds: Exploring Sexuality Through the Wellcome Collection

By Jennifer Grove June 3, 2014 Dispatches 0 comments

Jennifer Grove A letter dated 2nd October 1936, headed with the logo of The Oriental Hotel, Kobe, Japan and the large underlined word ‘URGENT’, reads “I have bought the special things at sex store…” [original underlining]. The letter is from Montague Henry Knapp, a retired naval captain and collector, to […]