Surrounded by death, Civil War soldiers found pleasure and fraternity in sharing erotic pictures and prints.
Tag: pornography
Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: A Roundtable on the Politics of Sexual Representations in the 1970s – Part 1
“Porno chic” culture of the 1970s provided an opportunity to embrace—or challenge—the sexual revolution.
CFP: Histories of “Smut,” “Porn” and “Obscenity”
How do we historicize the production, consumption and circulation of sexual images and texts?
Archives of Desire: Debbie Does Death
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
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
The Los Angeles Advocate captured the essence of an important segment of the LGBTQ culture.
Queering de Sade
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 […]
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