Governing pleasures: pornography and social change in England, 1815-1914

Lisa Z. Sigel

With permission of the Kinsey Institute.

Anonymous drawing: Cunnilingus.

Figure 1. Anonymous drawing: Cunnilingus.

Frontispiece: The Frisky Songster.

Figure 2. Frontispiece: The Frisky Songster.

With permission of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Thomas Rowlandson, "The Star Gazer," circa 1820s.

Figure 3. Thomas Rowlandson, "The Star Gazer," circa 1820s.

Thomas Rowlandson, "The Curious Parson," circa 1820s.

Figure 4. Thomas Rowlandson, "The Curious Parson," circa 1820s.

Thomas Rowlandson, "The Jugglers," circa 1820s.

Figure 5. Thomas Rowlandson, "The Jugglers," circa 1820s.

Thomas Rowlandson, "The Harem," circa 1820s.

Figure 6. Thomas Rowlandson, "The Harem," circa 1820s.

Frontispiece: Centuria Librorum Absconditorum.

Figure 7. Frontispiece: Centuria Librorum Absconditorum.

Cabinet portrait of geishas.

Figure 8. Cabinet portrait of geishas.

Illustration from John Davenport's Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs.

Figure 9. Illustration from John Davenport's Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs.

Photographs from a catalogue of artist's models.

Figure 10. Photographs from a catalogue of artist's models.

Photographic catalogue: "Bijoux 118."

Figure 11. Photographic catalogue: "Bijoux 118."

Photograph: Reclining woman.

Figure 12. Photograph: Reclining woman.

Photograph: Woman with garland.

Figure 13. Photograph: Woman with garland.

Photograph: Woman (in bonnet) and man.

Figure 14. Photograph: Woman (in bonnet) and man.

Photograph: Ménage, two women and one man.

Figure 15. Photograph: Ménage, two women and one man.

Photograph: Ménage, two men and one woman.

Figure 16. Photograph: Ménage, two men and one woman.

Photograph: Seaside fellatio.

Figure 17. Photograph: Seaside fellatio.

Catalogue: "La Lune à 1 mètre." [The moon at 1 meter]

Figure 18. Catalogue: "La Lune à 1 mètre." [The moon at 1 meter]

Photograph: Two women with bottle.

Figure 19. Photograph: Two women with bottle.

Postcard: Woman in an indiscreet bodystocking.

Figure 20. Postcard: Woman in an indiscreet bodystocking.

Reviews

Journal Abbreviation

Label

URL

JHSex

11.4 (2002): 695-696

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_sexuality/v011/11.4sinfield.html

AHR

108.1 (Feb. 2003): 256-257

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533171

45.4 (Summer 2003): 777-779

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_studies/v045/45.4forman.html

JSocH

37.4 (2004): 1119-1121

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_social_history/v037/37.4white.html

WRB

20.1 (Oct. 2002): 8-9

http://www.jstor.org/stable/4024012

HEB Id	Title	Authors	Publication Information
heb02140.0001.001	The Colonial Harem.	Alloula, Malek, and Barbara Hallow.	Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
heb02141.0001.001	Love in the Time of Victoria: Sexuality and Desire among Working-Class Men and Women in Nineteenth-Century London.	Barret-Ducrocq, Francoise.	London: Verso, 1991.
heb02142.0001.001	Eroticism and the Body Politic.	Hunt, Lynn.	Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
heb02143.0001.001	The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800.	Hunt, Lynn.	New York: Zone Books, 1996.
heb02144.0001.001	Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Literature.	Kincaid, James R.	London: Routledge, 1992.
heb02145.0001.001	Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America.	Kipnis, Laura.	Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
	The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth Century England.	Marcus, Steven.	New York: W. W. Norton and Company.
heb02146.0001.001	Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest.	McClintock, Anne P.	London: Routledge, 1995.
heb02148.0001.001	The Mastery of Submission: Inventions of Masochism.	Noyes, John K.	Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
heb02149.0001.001	Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Introduction.	Tomlinson, John.	Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
	Eros Revived: Erotica of the Enlightenment in England and America.	Wagner, Peter.	London: Secker and Warburg, 1988.
	City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London.	Walkowitz, Judith R., and Catherine R. Stimpson.	Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
heb00983.0001.001	Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State.	Walkowitz, Judith R.	Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Governing pleasures: pornography and social change in England, 1815-1914

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Anonymous drawing: Cunnilingus.

Frontispiece: The Frisky Songster.

Thomas Rowlandson, "The Star Gazer," circa 1820s.

Thomas Rowlandson, "The Curious Parson," circa 1820s.

Thomas Rowlandson, "The Jugglers," circa 1820s.

Thomas Rowlandson, "The Harem," circa 1820s.

Frontispiece: Centuria Librorum Absconditorum.

Cabinet portrait of geishas.

Illustration from John Davenport's Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs.

Photographs from a catalogue of artist's models.

Photographic catalogue: "Bijoux 118."

Photograph: Reclining woman.

Photograph: Woman with garland.

Photograph: Woman (in bonnet) and man.

Photograph: Ménage, two women and one man.

Photograph: Ménage, two men and one woman.

Photograph: Seaside fellatio.

Catalogue: "La Lune à 1 mètre." [The moon at 1 meter]

Photograph: Two women with bottle.

Postcard: Woman in an indiscreet bodystocking.

Governing pleasures: pornography and social change in England, 1815-1914

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