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href="#Writings_of_prostitutes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Writings of prostitutes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Writings_of_prostitutes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Writings_of_students" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Writings_of_students"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Writings of students</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Writings_of_students-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sex_manuals" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sex_manuals"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Sex manuals</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sex_manuals-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Erotic_Fiction" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Erotic_Fiction"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Erotic Fiction</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Erotic_Fiction-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Legal_status" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Legal_status"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Legal status</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Legal_status-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Legal status subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Legal_status-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Early_legislation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Early_legislation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Early legislation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Early_legislation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-To_1857" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#To_1857"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1.1</span> <span>To 1857</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-To_1857-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1857–1959" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1857–1959"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1.2</span> <span>1857–1959</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1857–1959-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Modern_legislation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Modern_legislation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Modern legislation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Modern_legislation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Further reading subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-History_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#History_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>History</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-History_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-General" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#General"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1.1</span> <span>General</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-General-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ancient_world_and_Middle_Ages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ancient_world_and_Middle_Ages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1.2</span> <span>Ancient world and Middle Ages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ancient_world_and_Middle_Ages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Modern_times_to_1900" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Modern_times_to_1900"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1.3</span> <span>Modern times to 1900</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Modern_times_to_1900-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%AF%D8%A8_%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A" title="أدب جنسي – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="أدب جنسي" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotik_%C9%99d%C9%99biyyat" title="Erotik ədəbiyyat – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Erotik ədəbiyyat" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF" title="আদিরসাত্মক সাহিত্য – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="আদিরসাত্মক সাহিত্য" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Эратычная літаратура – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Эратычная літаратура" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literatura_er%C3%B2tica" title="Literatura eròtica – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Literatura eròtica" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotick%C3%A1_literatura" title="Erotická literatura – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Erotická literatura" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotische_Literatur" title="Erotische Literatur – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Erotische Literatur" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literatura_er%C3%B3tica" title="Literatura erótica – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Literatura erótica" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literatura_erotikoa" title="Literatura erotikoa – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Literatura erotikoa" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%DB%8C%DA%A9" title="ادبیات اروتیک – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ادبیات اروتیک" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotiskar_b%C3%B3kmentir" title="Erotiskar bókmentir – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Erotiskar bókmentir" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litt%C3%A9rature_%C3%A9rotique" title="Littérature érotique – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Littérature érotique" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literatura_er%C3%B3tica" title="Literatura erótica – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Literatura erótica" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%99%B8%EC%84%A4_%EB%AC%B8%ED%95%99" title="외설 문학 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="외설 문학" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF" title="शृंगारिक साहित्य – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="शृंगारिक साहित्य" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotska_knji%C5%BEevnost" title="Erotska književnost – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Erotska književnost" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letteratura_erotica" title="Letteratura erotica – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Letteratura erotica" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%98%D7%99%D7%AA" title="ספרות ארוטית – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ספרות ארוטית" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotin%C4%97_literat%C5%ABra" title="Erotinė literatūra – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Erotinė literatūra" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%80%A7%E6%84%9B%E6%96%87%E5%AD%A6" title="性愛文学 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="性愛文学" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotik_adabiyot" title="Erotik adabiyot – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Erotik adabiyot" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literatura_er%C3%B3tica" title="Literatura erótica – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Literatura erótica" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literatur%C4%83_erotic%C4%83" title="Literatură erotică – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Literatură erotică" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Эротическая литература – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Эротическая литература" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li 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title="Proverb">proverb</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_speaking" title="Public speaking">Oration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Performance" title="Performance">Performance</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Audiobook" title="Audiobook">audiobook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spoken_word" title="Spoken word">spoken word</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saying" title="Saying">Saying</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#ddddff;"> Major written forms</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content-with-subgroup hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Drama" title="Drama">Drama</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Closet_drama" title="Closet drama">closet drama</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">Poetry</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lyric_poetry" title="Lyric poetry">lyric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narrative_poetry" title="Narrative poetry">narrative</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prose" title="Prose">Prose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Literary_nonsense" title="Literary nonsense">Nonsense</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nonsense_verse" title="Nonsense verse">verse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ergodic_literature" title="Ergodic literature">Ergodic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electronic_literature" title="Electronic literature">Electronic</a></li></ul> <table class="sidebar-subgroup"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Long prose fiction</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anthology" title="Anthology">Anthology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serial_(literature)" title="Serial (literature)">Serial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novel" title="Novel">Novel</a>/<a href="/wiki/Romance_(prose_fiction)" title="Romance (prose fiction)">romance</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Short prose fiction</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Novella" title="Novella">Novella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novelette_(literature)" class="mw-redirect" title="Novelette (literature)">Novelette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Short_story" title="Short story">Short story</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drabble" title="Drabble">Drabble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sketch_story" title="Sketch story">Sketch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flash_fiction" title="Flash fiction">Flash fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parable" title="Parable">Parable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_text" title="Religious text">Religious</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wisdom_literature" title="Wisdom literature">Wisdom</a></li></ul></td> </tr></tbody></table></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#ddddff;"> Prose genres</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content-with-subgroup hlist"> <table class="sidebar-subgroup"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/Fiction" title="Fiction">Fiction</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Speculative_fiction" title="Speculative fiction">Speculative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Realist_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Realist literature">Realist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">Children's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genre_fiction" title="Genre fiction">Genre</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Action_fiction" title="Action fiction">action</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adventure_fiction" title="Adventure fiction">adventure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coming-of-age_story" title="Coming-of-age story">coming-of-age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_fiction" title="Crime fiction">crime</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">erotic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_literature" title="Fantasy literature">fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_fiction" title="Military fiction">military</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paranormal_fiction" title="Paranormal fiction">paranormal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romance_novel" title="Romance novel">romance</a></li> <li><a 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title="Epistle">Epistle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essay" title="Essay">Essay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Journalism" title="Journalism">Journalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Letter_(message)" title="Letter (message)">Letter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Life_writing" title="Life writing">Life</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nature_writing" title="Nature writing">Nature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Persuasive_writing" title="Persuasive writing">Persuasive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Travel_literature" title="Travel literature">Travelogue</a></li></ul></td> </tr></tbody></table></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#ddddff;"> Poetry genres</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content-with-subgroup hlist"> <table class="sidebar-subgroup"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/Narrative_poetry" title="Narrative poetry">Narrative</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Children%27s_poetry" title="Children's poetry">Children</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">Epic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verse_drama_and_dramatic_verse" title="Verse drama and dramatic verse">Dramatic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verse_novel" title="Verse novel">Verse novel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_poetry" title="National poetry">National</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/Lyric_poetry" title="Lyric poetry">Lyric</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ballad" title="Ballad">Ballad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elegy" title="Elegy">Elegy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epigram" title="Epigram">Epigram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghazal" title="Ghazal">Ghazal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haiku" title="Haiku">Haiku</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hymn" title="Hymn">Hymn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Limerick_(poetry)" title="Limerick (poetry)">Limerick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ode" title="Ode">Ode</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qasida" title="Qasida">Qasida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonnet" title="Sonnet">Sonnet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Villanelle" title="Villanelle">Villanelle</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Lists</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_epic_poems" title="List of epic poems">Epic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_poetry_groups_and_movements" title="List of poetry groups and movements">Groups and movements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_poets" title="List of poets">Poets</a></li></ul></td> </tr></tbody></table></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#ddddff;"> Dramatic genres</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Comedy" title="Comedy">Comedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libretto" title="Libretto">Libretto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Play_(theatre)" title="Play (theatre)">Play</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_(theatrical_genre)" title="History (theatrical genre)">historical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morality_play" title="Morality play">moral</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">Satire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Screenplay" title="Screenplay">Script</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tragedy" title="Tragedy">Tragedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tragicomedy" title="Tragicomedy">Tragicomedy</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#ddddff;"> <a href="/wiki/History_of_literature" title="History of literature">History</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_literature" title="Ancient literature">Ancient</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classics" title="Classics">Classical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medieval_literature" title="Medieval literature">Medieval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Literary_modernism" title="Literary modernism">Modernist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postmodern_literature" title="Postmodern literature">Postmodern</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#ddddff;"> Lists and outlines</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_literature" title="Outline of literature">Outline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_literary_terms" title="Glossary of literary terms">Glossary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_books" title="Lists of books">Books</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_writers" title="Lists of writers">Writers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_literary_movements" title="List of literary movements">Movements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_literary_cycles" title="List of literary cycles">Cycles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_literary_awards" title="List of literary awards">Literary awards</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_poetry_awards" title="List of poetry awards">poetry</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Short_story_collection" title="Short story collection">Short story collection</a></li> <li><a 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margin-top:0.3em; border-top:1px solid #aaa; padding-top:0.15em; border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;"> <span class="nowrap"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Books-aj.svg_aj_ashton_01.svg/16px-Books-aj.svg_aj_ashton_01.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Books-aj.svg_aj_ashton_01.svg/24px-Books-aj.svg_aj_ashton_01.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Books-aj.svg_aj_ashton_01.svg/32px-Books-aj.svg_aj_ashton_01.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="309" data-file-height="274" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Literature" title="Portal:Literature">Literature portal</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output 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abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Literature" title="Template:Literature"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Literature" title="Template talk:Literature"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Literature" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Literature"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Erotic literature</b> comprises fictional and factual stories and accounts of <a href="/wiki/Eros_(concept)" title="Eros (concept)">eros</a> (passionate, romantic or sexual relationships) intended to arouse similar feelings in readers.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This contrasts <a href="/wiki/Erotica" title="Erotica">erotica</a>, which focuses more specifically on sexual feelings. Other common elements are <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Social_criticism" title="Social criticism">social criticism</a>. Much erotic literature features <a href="/wiki/Erotic_art" title="Erotic art">erotic art</a>, illustrating the text. </p><p>Although cultural disapproval of erotic literature has always existed, its circulation was not seen as a major problem before the invention of printing, as the costs of producing individual manuscripts limited distribution to a very small group of wealthy and <a href="/wiki/Literacy" title="Literacy">literate</a> readers. The invention of printing, in the 15th century, brought with it both a greater market and increasing restrictions, including <a href="/wiki/Censorship" title="Censorship">censorship</a> and legal restraints on publication on the grounds of <a href="/wiki/Obscenity" title="Obscenity">obscenity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Hyde_1964;_pp._1-26_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hyde_1964;_pp._1-26-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because of this, much of the production of this type of material became <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clandestine" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:clandestine">clandestine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_periods">Early periods</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early periods"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_Love_Song_of_Shu-Sin_(Shu-Suen_B)_%E2%80%93_Istanbul_2461_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/A_Love_Song_of_Shu-Sin_%28Shu-Suen_B%29_%E2%80%93_Istanbul_2461_cropped.jpg/220px-A_Love_Song_of_Shu-Sin_%28Shu-Suen_B%29_%E2%80%93_Istanbul_2461_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="384" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/A_Love_Song_of_Shu-Sin_%28Shu-Suen_B%29_%E2%80%93_Istanbul_2461_cropped.jpg/330px-A_Love_Song_of_Shu-Sin_%28Shu-Suen_B%29_%E2%80%93_Istanbul_2461_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/A_Love_Song_of_Shu-Sin_%28Shu-Suen_B%29_%E2%80%93_Istanbul_2461_cropped.jpg/440px-A_Love_Song_of_Shu-Sin_%28Shu-Suen_B%29_%E2%80%93_Istanbul_2461_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1384" data-file-height="2416" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Clay_tablet" title="Clay tablet">Clay tablet</a> with a Sumerian love poem from the 3rd millennium BCE</figcaption></figure> <p>The oldest located love poem is <a href="/wiki/Istanbul_2461" title="Istanbul 2461">Istanbul 2461</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an erotic monologue written by a female speaker directed to king <a href="/wiki/Shu-Sin" title="Shu-Sin">Shu-Sin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In ancient Sumer, a whole <a href="/wiki/Sumerian_literature" title="Sumerian literature">cycle of poems</a> revolved around the erotic lovemaking between the goddess <a href="/wiki/Inanna" title="Inanna">Inanna</a> and her consort <a href="/wiki/Dumuzid_the_Shepherd" class="mw-redirect" title="Dumuzid the Shepherd">Dumuzid the Shepherd</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Song_of_Songs" title="Song of Songs">Song of Songs</a>, found in the last section of the <a href="/wiki/Tanakh" class="mw-redirect" title="Tanakh">Tanakh</a>, celebrates sexual love, giving "the voices of two lovers, praising each other, yearning for each other, proffering invitations to enjoy".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many erotic poems have survived from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">ancient Greece</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Rome</a>. The Greek poets <a href="/wiki/Straton_of_Sardis" title="Straton of Sardis">Straton of Sardis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sappho_of_Lesbos" class="mw-redirect" title="Sappho of Lesbos">Sappho of Lesbos</a> both wrote erotic lyric poems.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The poet <a href="/wiki/Archilochus" title="Archilochus">Archilochus</a> wrote numerous satirical poems filled with obscene and erotic imagery.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Erotic poems continued to be written in <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_period" title="Hellenistic period">Hellenistic</a> and Roman times by writers like <a href="/wiki/Automedon_(poet)" title="Automedon (poet)">Automedon</a> (<i>The Professional</i> and <i>Demetrius the Fortunate</i>), <a href="/wiki/Philodemus" title="Philodemus">Philodemus</a> (<i>Charito</i>) and <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Argentarius" title="Marcus Argentarius">Marcus Argentarius</a>. Notable Roman erotic poets included <a href="/wiki/Catullus" title="Catullus">Catullus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Propertius" title="Propertius">Propertius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tibullus" title="Tibullus">Tibullus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a> and <a href="/wiki/Juvenal" title="Juvenal">Juvenal</a>, and the anonymous <a href="/wiki/Priapeia" title="Priapeia">Priapeia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some later Latin authors such as <a href="/wiki/Joannes_Secundus" class="mw-redirect" title="Joannes Secundus">Joannes Secundus</a> also wrote erotic verse. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Haft_Peykar" title="Haft Peykar">Haft Peykar</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>: <span lang="fa" dir="rtl">هفت پیکر</span>) also known as <i>Bahramnameh</i> (<span title="Persian-language text"><span lang="fa" dir="rtl">بهرام‌نامه</span></span>, <i>The Book of Bahram</i>) is a romantic epic by the Persian poet <a href="/wiki/Nizami_Ganjavi" title="Nizami Ganjavi">Nizami Ganjavi</a> written in 1197. This poem is a part of the <i>Nizami's Khamsa</i>. The original title <i>Haft Peykar</i> can be translated literally as "seven portraits" with the figurative meaning of "seven beauties." The poem is a masterpiece of erotic literature, but it is also a profoundly <a href="/wiki/Morality" title="Morality">moralistic</a> work.<sup id="cite_ref-Blois_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blois-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the Renaissance period, many poems were not written for publication; instead, they were merely circulated in manuscript form among a relatively limited readership. This was the original method of circulation for the <i><a href="/wiki/Sonnets" class="mw-redirect" title="Sonnets">Sonnets</a></i> of <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, who also wrote the erotic poems <i><a href="/wiki/Venus_and_Adonis_(Shakespeare_poem)" title="Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem)">Venus and Adonis</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rape_of_Lucrece" title="The Rape of Lucrece">The Rape of Lucrece</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Perfumed_Garden_of_Sensual_Delight" class="mw-redirect" title="The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight">The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a>: الروض العاطر في نزهة الخاطر) is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nefzawi, also known simply as "Nefzawi". The book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have to be attractive and gives advice on sexual technique, warnings about <a href="/wiki/Sexual_health" class="mw-redirect" title="Sexual health">sexual health</a>, and recipes to remedy sexual maladies. It gives lists of names for the <a href="/wiki/Human_penis" title="Human penis">penis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vulva" title="Vulva">vulva</a>, and has a section on the interpretation of dreams. Interspersed with these there are a number of stories which are intended to give context and amusement. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="17th_and_18th_centuries">17th and 18th centuries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 17th and 18th centuries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jacob_Huysmans_-_Portrait_of_John_Wilmot,_2nd_Earl_of_Rochester_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Jacob_Huysmans_-_Portrait_of_John_Wilmot%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Rochester_1.jpg/220px-Jacob_Huysmans_-_Portrait_of_John_Wilmot%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Rochester_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="269" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Jacob_Huysmans_-_Portrait_of_John_Wilmot%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Rochester_1.jpg/330px-Jacob_Huysmans_-_Portrait_of_John_Wilmot%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Rochester_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Jacob_Huysmans_-_Portrait_of_John_Wilmot%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Rochester_1.jpg/440px-Jacob_Huysmans_-_Portrait_of_John_Wilmot%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Rochester_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="889" data-file-height="1088" /></a><figcaption>Portrait by <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Huysmans" title="Jacob Huysmans">Jacob Huysmans</a> of <a href="/wiki/John_Wilmot,_Earl_of_Rochester" class="mw-redirect" title="John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester">John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester</a>, a notorious author of erotic verse</figcaption></figure> <p>In the 17th century, <a href="/wiki/John_Wilmot,_Earl_of_Rochester" class="mw-redirect" title="John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester">John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester</a> (1647–80) was notorious for obscene verses, many of which were published posthumously in compendiums of poetry by him and other "<a href="/wiki/Stuart_Restoration" title="Stuart Restoration">Restoration</a> <a href="/wiki/Rake_(stock_character)" title="Rake (stock character)">rakes</a>" such as <a href="/wiki/Charles_Sedley" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Sedley">Sir Charles Sedley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Sackville,_6th_Earl_of_Dorset" title="Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset">Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset</a>, and <a href="/wiki/George_Etherege" title="George Etherege">George Etherege</a>. Though many of the poems attributed to Rochester were actually by other authors, his reputation as a <a href="/wiki/Libertine" title="Libertine">libertine</a> was such that his name was used as a selling point by publishers of collections of erotic verse for centuries after. One poem definitely by him was "A Ramble in <a href="/wiki/St._James%27s_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="St. James's Park">St. James's Park</a>", in which the protagonist's quest for healthy exercise in the park uncovers instead "Bugg'ries, Rapes and Incest" on ground polluted by <a href="/wiki/Libertine" title="Libertine">debauchery</a> from the time when "Ancient <a href="/wiki/Pict" class="mw-redirect" title="Pict">Pict</a> began to Whore". This poem was being censored from collections of Rochester's poetry as late as 1953, though, in line with the subsequent general change in attitudes to sexuality, it was dramatised as a scene in the film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Libertine_(2004_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Libertine (2004 film)">The Libertine</a></i> about his life, based on an existing play.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>English collections of erotic verse by various hands include the <i>Drollery</i> collections of the 17th century; <i><a href="/wiki/Pills_to_Purge_Melancholy" class="mw-redirect" title="Pills to Purge Melancholy">Pills to Purge Melancholy</a></i> (1698–1720); the <i><a href="/wiki/Roxburghe_Ballads" title="Roxburghe Ballads">Roxburghe Ballads</a></i>; <i><a href="/wiki/Bishop_Percy%27s_Folio" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop Percy's Folio">Bishop Percy's Folio</a></i>; <i>The Musical Miscellany</i>; <i>National Ballad and Song: Merry Songs and Ballads Prior to the Year AD 1800</i> (1895–97) edited by J. S. Farmer; the three volume <i>Poetica Erotica</i> (1921) and its more obscene supplement the <i>Immortalia</i> (1927) both edited by T. R. Smith.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> French collections include <i>Les Muses gaillardes</i> (1606) <i>Le Cabinet satyrique</i> (1618) and <i>La Parnasse des poetes satyriques</i> (1622).<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A famous collection of four erotic poems, was published in England in 1763, called <i>An Essay on Woman</i>. This included the title piece, an obscene parody of <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/An_Essay_on_Man" title="An Essay on Man">An Essay on Man</a>"; "Veni Creator: or, The Maid's Prayer", which is original; the "Universal Prayer", an obscene parody of Pope's poem of the same name, and "The Dying Lover to his Prick", which parodies "A Dying Christian to his Soul" by Pope. These poems have been attributed to <a href="/wiki/John_Wilkes" title="John Wilkes">John Wilkes</a> and/or Thomas Potter and receive the distinction of being the only works of erotic literature ever read out loud and in their entirety in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a>—before being declared obscene and blasphemous by that body and the supposed author, Wilkes, declared an <a href="/wiki/Outlaw" title="Outlaw">outlaw</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns" title="Robert Burns">Robert Burns</a> worked to collect and preserve Scottish folk songs, sometimes revising, expanding, and adapting them. One of the better known of these collections is <i><a href="/wiki/The_Merry_Muses_of_Caledonia" title="The Merry Muses of Caledonia">The Merry Muses of Caledonia</a></i> (the title is not by Burns), a collection of bawdy lyrics that were popular in the music halls of Scotland as late as the 20th century. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Maurice_Ray_-_Aphrodite_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Maurice_Ray_-_Aphrodite_03.jpg/220px-Maurice_Ray_-_Aphrodite_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="186" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Maurice_Ray_-_Aphrodite_03.jpg/330px-Maurice_Ray_-_Aphrodite_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Maurice_Ray_-_Aphrodite_03.jpg/440px-Maurice_Ray_-_Aphrodite_03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="586" data-file-height="495" /></a><figcaption>Illustration by <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Ray" class="extiw" title="fr:Maurice Ray">Maurice Ray</a> for <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Lou%C3%BFs" title="Pierre Louÿs">Pierre Louÿs</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Aphrodite:_m%C5%93urs_antiques" title="Aphrodite: mœurs antiques">Aphrodite: mœurs antiques</a></i> (1896)</figcaption></figure> <p>One of the 19th century's foremost poets—<a href="/wiki/Algernon_Charles_Swinburne" title="Algernon Charles Swinburne">Algernon Charles Swinburne</a>—devoted much of his considerable talent to erotic verse, producing, inter alia, twelve eclogues on <a href="/wiki/Flagellation" title="Flagellation">flagellation</a> titled <i>The Flogging Block</i> "by Rufus Rodworthy, annotated by Barebum Birchingly";<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> more was published anonymously in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Whippingham_Papers" title="The Whippingham Papers">The Whippingham Papers</a></i> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1888</span>).<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another notorious anonymous 19th-century poem on the same subject is <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rodiad" title="The Rodiad">The Rodiad</a></i>, ascribed (seemingly falsely and in jest<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) to <a href="/wiki/George_Colman_the_Younger" title="George Colman the Younger">George Colman the Younger</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Camden_Hotten" title="John Camden Hotten">John Camden Hotten</a> even wrote a pornographic comic opera, <i><a href="/wiki/Lady_Bumtickler%27s_Revels" title="Lady Bumtickler's Revels">Lady Bumtickler's Revels</a></i>, on the theme of <a href="/wiki/Flagellation" title="Flagellation">flagellation</a> in 1872.<sup id="cite_ref-prins152_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prins152-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Lou%C3%BFs" title="Pierre Louÿs">Pierre Louÿs</a> helped found a literary review, <i>La Conque</i> in 1891,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he proceeded to publish <i><a href="/wiki/Astarte" title="Astarte">Astarte</a></i>—an early collection of erotic verse already marked by his distinctive elegance and refinement of style. He followed up in 1894 with another erotic collection in 143 prose poems—<i><a href="/wiki/Songs_of_Bilitis" class="mw-redirect" title="Songs of Bilitis">Songs of Bilitis</a> (Les Chansons de Bilitis)</i>, this time with strong <a href="/wiki/Lesbian" title="Lesbian">lesbian</a> themes. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although <a href="/wiki/D._H._Lawrence" title="D. H. Lawrence">D. H. Lawrence</a> could be regarded as a writer of love poems, he usually dealt in the less romantic aspects of love such as sexual frustration or the sex act itself. <a href="/wiki/Ezra_Pound" title="Ezra Pound">Ezra Pound</a>, in his <i>Literary Essays</i>, complained of Lawrence's interest in his own "disagreeable sensations" but praised him for his "low-life narrative". This is a reference to Lawrence's dialect poems akin to the Scots poems of <a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns" title="Robert Burns">Robert Burns</a>, in which he reproduced the language and concerns of the people of <a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire" title="Nottinghamshire">Nottinghamshire</a> from his youth. He called one collection of poems <i>Pansies</i> partly for the simple ephemeral nature of the verse but also a pun on the French word <i>panser</i>, to dress or bandage a wound. "The Noble Englishman" and "Don't Look at Me" were removed from the official edition of <i>Pansies</i> on the grounds of obscenity; Lawrence felt wounded by this.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>From the age of 17, <a href="/wiki/Gavin_Ewart" title="Gavin Ewart">Gavin Ewart</a> acquired a reputation for wit and accomplishment through such works as "Phallus in Wonderland" and "Poems and Songs", which appeared in 1939 and was his first collection. The intelligence and casually flamboyant virtuosity with which he framed his often humorous commentaries on human behaviour made his work invariably entertaining and interesting. The irreverent eroticism for which his poetry is noted resulted in <a href="/wiki/W_H_Smith" class="mw-redirect" title="W H Smith">W H Smith</a>'s banning of his "The Pleasures of the Flesh" (1966) from their shops.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Canadian poet <a href="/wiki/John_Glassco" title="John Glassco">John Glassco</a> wrote <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Squire_Hardman_(poem)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Squire Hardman (poem) (page does not exist)">Squire Hardman</a></i> (1967), a long poem in <a href="/wiki/Heroic_couplets" class="mw-redirect" title="Heroic couplets">heroic couplets</a>, purporting to be a reprint of an 18th-century poem by <a href="/wiki/George_Colman_the_Younger" title="George Colman the Younger">George Colman the Younger</a>, on the theme of flagellation.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Italian <a href="/wiki/Una_Chi" title="Una Chi">Una Chi</a> distinguished herself among other publications for coldly analytical prose and for the crudeness of the stories. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_accounts">Other accounts</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Other accounts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Writings_of_prostitutes">Writings of prostitutes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Writings of prostitutes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Harris_List_Covent_Garden_Ladies_1773.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Harris_List_Covent_Garden_Ladies_1773.gif/220px-Harris_List_Covent_Garden_Ladies_1773.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="362" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Harris_List_Covent_Garden_Ladies_1773.gif 1.5x" data-file-width="320" data-file-height="527" /></a><figcaption><i>Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies</i></figcaption></figure><p><a href="/wiki/Prostitution" title="Prostitution">Prostitution</a> was the focus of much of the earliest erotic works. The term <i>pornography</i> is derived from the Greek <i>pornographos</i> meaning "writer about prostitutes", originally denoting descriptions of the lives and manners of prostitutes and their customers in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">Ancient Greece</a>. According to <a href="/wiki/Athenaeus" title="Athenaeus">Athenaeus</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Deipnosophists" class="mw-redirect" title="The Deipnosophists">The Deipnosophists</a></i> these constituted a considerable genre, with many lubricious treatises, stories and dramas on the subject.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A surviving example of this genre is <a href="/wiki/Lucian_of_Samosata" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucian of Samosata">Lucian of Samosata</a>'s <i>Dialogues of the Courtesans</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Accounts of prostitution have continued as a major part of the genre of erotic literature. In the 18th century, directories of <a href="/wiki/Prostitutes" class="mw-redirect" title="Prostitutes">prostitutes</a> and their services, such as <i><a href="/wiki/Harris%27s_List_of_Covent_Garden_Ladies" title="Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies">Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies</a></i> (1757–1795), provided both entertainment and instruction. </p><p>In the 19th century, the sensational journalism of <a href="/wiki/William_Thomas_Stead" class="mw-redirect" title="William Thomas Stead">W. T. Stead</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Maiden_Tribute_of_Modern_Babylon" title="The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon">The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon</a></i> (1885) about the procuring of underage girls into the brothels of Victorian London provided a stimulus for the erotic imagination. Stead's account was widely translated and the revelation of "padded rooms for the purpose of stifling the cries of the tortured victims of lust and brutality" and the symbolic figure of "The Minotaur of London" confirmed European observers worst imaginings about "Le Sadisme anglais" and inspired erotic writers to write of similar scenes set in London or involving sadistic English gentlemen. Such writers include <a href="/wiki/D%27Annunzio" class="mw-redirect" title="D'Annunzio">D'Annunzio</a> in <i>Il Piacere</i>, <a href="/wiki/Paul-Jean_Toulet" title="Paul-Jean Toulet">Paul-Jean Toulet</a> in <i>Monsieur de Paur</i> (1898), <a href="/wiki/Octave_Mirbeau" title="Octave Mirbeau">Octave Mirbeau</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Torture_Garden_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Torture Garden (novel)">Jardin des Supplices</a></i> (1899) and <a href="/wiki/Jean_Lorrain" title="Jean Lorrain">Jean Lorrain</a> in <i>Monsieur de Phocas</i> (1901).<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Well-known recent works in this genre are <i><a href="/wiki/Xaviera_Hollander#Author" title="Xaviera Hollander">The Happy Hooker: My Own Story</a></i> (1971) by the Dutch madame <a href="/wiki/Xaviera_Hollander" title="Xaviera Hollander">Xaviera Hollander</a> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Intimate_Adventures_of_a_London_Call_Girl" title="The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl">The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl</a></i> (2005) by <a href="/wiki/Belle_de_Jour_(writer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Belle de Jour (writer)">Belle de Jour</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Writings_of_students">Writings of students</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Writings of students"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="[icon]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2020</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LoC_Barse_Erotica.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/LoC_Barse_Erotica.jpg/220px-LoC_Barse_Erotica.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/LoC_Barse_Erotica.jpg/330px-LoC_Barse_Erotica.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/LoC_Barse_Erotica.jpg/440px-LoC_Barse_Erotica.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>Portrayal of Erotica at the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In the 21st century, a new <a href="/wiki/Literary_genre" title="Literary genre">literary genre</a> of <a href="/wiki/Student" title="Student">student</a> published <a href="/wiki/Academic_journal" title="Academic journal">journals</a> at <a href="/wiki/Universities_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Universities in the United States">American universities</a> was started.<sup id="cite_ref-chapatimystery_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chapatimystery-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following is a partial list of publications: </p> <ul><li><i>The Moderator</i> – <a href="/wiki/Bard_College" title="Bard College">Bard College</a><sup id="cite_ref-Moderator_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moderator-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-twitter_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-twitter-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Virgin Mawrtyr</i> – <a href="/wiki/Bryn_Mawr_College" title="Bryn Mawr College">Bryn Mawr College</a><sup id="cite_ref-virginmawrtyr_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-virginmawrtyr-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-City_paper_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-City_paper-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>H-Bomb</i> – <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a><sup id="cite_ref-hbomb_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hbomb-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Quake</i> – <a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a><sup id="cite_ref-Quake_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Quake-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Squirm</i> – <a href="/wiki/Vassar_College" title="Vassar College">Vassar College</a><sup id="cite_ref-Squirm_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Squirm-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Vita Excolatur</i> – <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a><sup id="cite_ref-chicago_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chicago-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Bang</i><sup id="cite_ref-swattie_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swattie-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Untouchables<sup id="cite_ref-swattie_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swattie-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – <a href="/wiki/Swarthmore_College#Media" title="Swarthmore College">Swarthmore College</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boink" title="Boink">Boink</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Boston_University" title="Boston University">Boston University</a><sup id="cite_ref-stern_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stern-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sex_manuals">Sex manuals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Sex manuals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sex_manual" title="Sex manual">Sex manual</a></div> <p>Sex manuals are among the oldest forms of erotic literature. Three brief fragments of a sex manual written in the fourth century BC that is attributed to <a href="/wiki/Philaenis_of_Samos" class="mw-redirect" title="Philaenis of Samos">Philaenis of Samos</a> have survived. Modern scholars generally regard it as a work of <a href="/wiki/Parody" title="Parody">parody</a> probably written by a man, and this was most likely Athenian sophist <a href="/wiki/Polycrates_(sophist)" title="Polycrates (sophist)">Polycrates</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other examples of the genre from the classical world include the lost works of <a href="/wiki/Elephantis" title="Elephantis">Elephantis</a><sup id="cite_ref-Plant_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Plant-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>'s <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Ars_Amatoria" title="Ars Amatoria">Ars Amatoria</a></i></span>. The Indian <i><a href="/wiki/Kama_Sutra" title="Kama Sutra">Kama Sutra</a></i> is one of the world's best-known works of this type. The <i><a href="/wiki/Ananga_Ranga" title="Ananga Ranga">Ananga Ranga</a></i>, a 12th-century collection of Indian erotic works, is a lesser known one. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Perfumed_Garden" title="The Perfumed Garden">The Perfumed Garden for the Soul's Recreation</a></i>, a 16th-century <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> work by <a href="/wiki/Sheikh_Nefzaoui" class="mw-redirect" title="Sheikh Nefzaoui">Sheikh Nefzaoui</a>, is also well-known and is often reprinted and translated. There is anecdotal evidence that, as late as the mid-20th century, sex therapists and other physicians prescribed erotic literature as treatment for erectile dysfunction.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The ancient Chinese versions of the sex manual include the texts that contain the <a href="/wiki/Taoist_sexual_practices" title="Taoist sexual practices">Taoist sexual practices</a>. These include books that show illustrations of the ideal sexual behavior because sex in this religion is not considered taboo but a manifestation of the concept of the <a href="/wiki/Yin_and_yang" title="Yin and yang">yin and yang</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> wherein the male and female engage in an act of "joining of energy" or "joining of essences". The belief is that proper sexual practice is key to achieving good health. The manuals included the <a href="/wiki/Ishinp%C5%8D" title="Ishinpō">Ishinpo</a> text,<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which is a medical document that also included sections devoted to sexual hygiene and sexual manuals of the Tang and Han dynasties. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Qigong" title="Qigong">Qigong</a> manuals include warming a wet towel and covering penis for a few minutes, then rubbing one direction away from base of penis hundreds of times daily, similar to qigong. Squeezing sphincter while semi-erect or fully erect dozens of times daily, particularly a few hours before intercourse will help delay orgasm or enhance non-ejaculatory pleasure. The Universal Tao system was developed by Mantak Chia to teach Taoist meditative and exercise techniques to balance the body and increase and refine one's vital energy, or <i><a href="/wiki/Qi" title="Qi">qi</a></i>. Front and back channel, the back channel is where the perineum is located between anus and scrotum moving up the tailbone to the crown, the front channel is moving down the front of your body down the midline. Breathing up the back channel and then breathing out from the front channel down to and from the abdomen moves chi. Many practices combined help chi to be transformed into spiritual energy or <i><a href="/wiki/Shen_(Chinese_religion)" title="Shen (Chinese religion)">shen</a></i>. </p><p>Not all sex manuals were produced to arouse or inform readers about sexual acts. Some were created as a form of satire or social criticism, as in the case of a mock-sex manual produced in the early sixteenth century by <a href="/wiki/Pietro_Aretino" title="Pietro Aretino">Pietro Aretino</a>. It was in response to the clerical censorship of the nude engravings of the Roman artists <a href="/wiki/Marcantonio_Raimondi" title="Marcantonio Raimondi">Marcantonio Raimondi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was released in cheap wood, with a corresponding sonnet serving as the voice of the characters. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Erotic_Fiction">Erotic Fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Erotic Fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Erotic_fiction_(genre)" title="Erotic fiction (genre)">Erotic fiction (genre)</a></div> <p>Erotic fiction is a <a href="/wiki/Genre" title="Genre">genre</a> of <a href="/wiki/Fiction" title="Fiction">fiction</a> that portrays sex or sexual themes, generally in a more literary way than the fiction seen in <a href="/wiki/Pornographic_magazine" title="Pornographic magazine">pornographic magazines</a>. It sometimes includes elements of <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satire</a> or <a href="/wiki/Social_criticism" title="Social criticism">social criticism</a>. These type of fiction have frequently been banned by the government or religious authorities. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legal_status">Legal status</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Legal status"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Obscenity" title="Obscenity">Obscenity</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Globalize plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-globalize" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Globe icon." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_globe_content.svg/48px-Ambox_globe_content.svg.png" decoding="async" width="48" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_globe_content.svg/73px-Ambox_globe_content.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_globe_content.svg/97px-Ambox_globe_content.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="350" data-file-height="290" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">The examples and perspective in this <b>deal primarily with England and the United States and do not represent a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias">worldwide view</a> of the subject</b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> You may <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit">improve this </a>, discuss the issue on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:Erotic_literature" title="Talk:Erotic literature">talk page</a>, or create a new, as appropriate.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2022</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_legislation">Early legislation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Early legislation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="To_1857">To 1857</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: To 1857"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Erotic or pornographic works have often been prosecuted, censored and destroyed by the authorities on grounds of obscenity.<sup id="cite_ref-Hyde_1964;_pp._1-26_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hyde_1964;_pp._1-26-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Medieval England, erotic or pornographic publications were the concern of the ecclesiastical courts. After the Reformation the jurisdiction of these courts declined in favour of the Crown which licensed every printed book. Prosecutions of books for their erotic content alone were rare and works which attacked the church or state gave much more concern to the authorities than erotica or '<a href="/wiki/Obscene_libel" title="Obscene libel">obscene libel</a>' as it was then known. For instance the <a href="/wiki/Licensing_Act_1662" class="mw-redirect" title="Licensing Act 1662">Licensing Act 1662</a> was aimed generally at "heretical, seditious, schismatical or offensive books of pamphlets" rather than just erotica per se. Even this Licensing Act was allowed to lapse in 1695 and no attempt made to renew it. </p><p>The first conviction for <a href="/wiki/Obscenity" title="Obscenity">obscenity</a> in England occurred in 1727, when <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Curll" title="Edmund Curll">Edmund Curll</a> was fined for the publication of <i><a href="/wiki/Venus_in_the_Cloister" title="Venus in the Cloister">Venus in the Cloister or The Nun in her Smock</a></i> under the <a href="/wiki/Common_law" title="Common law">common law</a> offence of <a href="/wiki/Breach_of_the_peace" title="Breach of the peace">disturbing the</a> <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_peace" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen's peace">King's peace</a>. This set a <a href="/wiki/Legal_precedent" class="mw-redirect" title="Legal precedent">legal precedent</a> for other convictions.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The publication of other books by Curll, however, considered seditious and blasphemous, such as <i>The Memoirs of John Ker</i>, apparently most offended the authorities. Prosecutions of erotica later in the 18th century were rare and were most often taken because of the admixture of seditious and blasphemous material with the porn. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1857–1959"><span id="1857.E2.80.931959"></span>1857–1959</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 1857–1959"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NewYorkSocietyForTheSuppressionOfVice.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/NewYorkSocietyForTheSuppressionOfVice.jpg/220px-NewYorkSocietyForTheSuppressionOfVice.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/NewYorkSocietyForTheSuppressionOfVice.jpg/330px-NewYorkSocietyForTheSuppressionOfVice.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/NewYorkSocietyForTheSuppressionOfVice.jpg/440px-NewYorkSocietyForTheSuppressionOfVice.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1675" data-file-height="1678" /></a><figcaption>Erotic literature going up in smoke and its distributors being put in jail, courtesy of Anthony Comstock's New York Society for the Suppression of Vice</figcaption></figure><p> It was the <a href="/wiki/Obscene_Publications_Act_1857" title="Obscene Publications Act 1857">Obscene Publications Act 1857</a> which made the sale of obscene material a statutory offense, giving the courts power to seize and destroy offending material. The origins of the act itself were in a trial for the sale of pornography presided over by the <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chief_Justice_of_England_and_Wales" title="Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales">Lord Chief Justice</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Campbell,_1st_Baron_Campbell" title="John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell">Lord Campbell</a>, at the same time as a debate in the House of Lords over a bill aiming to restrict the sale of poisons. Campbell was taken by the analogy between the two situations, famously referring to the London pornography trade as "a sale of poison more deadly than prussic acid, strychnine or arsenic",<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and proposed a bill to restrict the sale of pornography; giving statutory powers of destruction would allow for a much more effective degree of prosecution. The bill was controversial at the time, receiving strong opposition from both <a href="/wiki/Houses_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Houses of Parliament">Houses of Parliament</a>. It was passed on the assurance by the Lord Chief Justice that it was "intended to apply exclusively to works written for the single purpose of corrupting the morals of youth and of a nature calculated to shock the common feelings of decency in any well-regulated mind." The House of Commons successfully amended it so as not to apply to Scotland, on the grounds that Scottish common law was sufficiently stringent. </p><p>The Act provided for the seizure and destruction of any material deemed to be obscene, and held for sale or distribution, following information being laid before a "court of summary jurisdiction" (<a href="/wiki/Magistrates%27_court_(England_and_Wales)" title="Magistrates' court (England and Wales)">magistrates' court</a>). The Act required that following evidence of a common-law offence being committed – for example, on the report of a plain-clothes policeman who had successfully purchased the material – the court could issue a warrant for the premises to be searched and the material seized. The proprietor then would be called upon to attend court and give reason why the material should not be destroyed. Critically, the Act did not define "obscene", leaving this to the will of the courts. </p><p>While the Act itself did not change, the scope of the work affected by it did. In 1868 <a href="/wiki/Sir_Alexander_Cockburn,_12th_Baronet" title="Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet">Sir Alexander Cockburn</a>, Campbell's successor as Lord Chief Justice, held in an appeal that the test of obscenity was "whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." This was clearly a major change from Campbell's opinion only ten years before – the test now being the effect on someone open to corruption who obtained a copy, not whether the material was <i>intended</i> to corrupt or offend. </p><p>Cockburn's declaration remained in force for several decades, and most of the high profile seizures under the Act relied on this interpretation. Known as the <a href="/wiki/Hicklin_test" title="Hicklin test">Hicklin test</a> no cognisance was taken of the literary merit of a book or on the extent of the offending text within the book in question. The widened scope of the original legislation led to the subsequent notorious targeting of now acknowledged classics of world literature by such authors as <a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Zola" title="Émile Zola">Zola</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Joyce" title="James Joyce">James Joyce</a> and <a href="/wiki/D.H._Lawrence" class="mw-redirect" title="D.H. Lawrence">D.H. Lawrence</a> plus medical textbooks by such as <a href="/wiki/Havelock_Ellis" title="Havelock Ellis">Havelock Ellis</a> rather than the blatant erotica which was the original target of this law.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In contrast to England, where actions against obscene literature were the preserve of the magistrates, such actions were the responsibility of the Postal Inspection Service in America. They were embodied in the federal and state <a href="/wiki/Comstock_laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Comstock laws">Comstock laws</a> and named after the postal officer and anti-obscenity crusader <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Comstock" title="Anthony Comstock">Anthony Comstock</a>, who proved himself officious in the work of suppression both in his official capacity and through his <a href="/wiki/New_York_Society_for_the_Suppression_of_Vice" title="New York Society for the Suppression of Vice">New York Society for the Suppression of Vice</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first such law was the Comstock Act, (ch. 258 17 <a href="/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Large" title="United States Statutes at Large">Stat.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://legislink.org/us/stat-17-598">598</a> enacted March 3, 1873) which made it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, and/or lascivious" materials through the mail. Twenty-four states passed similar prohibitions on materials distributed within the states.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_legislation">Modern legislation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Modern legislation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This question of whether a book had literary merit eventually prompted a change in the law in both America and the UK. In the United Kingdom the <a href="/wiki/Obscene_Publications_Act_1959" title="Obscene Publications Act 1959">Obscene Publications Act 1959</a> provided for the protection of "literature" but conversely increased the penalties against pure "pornography." The law defined obscenity and separated it from serious works of art. </p><p>The new definition read: </p> <blockquote><p>[A]n article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or (where the article comprises two or more distinct items) the effect of any one of its items is, if taken as a whole, such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it.</p></blockquote> <p>After this piece of legislation questions of the literary merit of the work in question were allowed to be put before the judge and jury as in the <i><a href="/wiki/Lady_Chatterley" class="mw-redirect" title="Lady Chatterley">Lady Chatterley</a></i> trial. The publishers of the latter book were found not guilty by the court on the grounds of the literary merit of the book. In later prosecutions of literary erotica under the provisions of the act, however, even purely pornographic works with no apparent literary merit escaped destruction by the authorities. Purely textual pornographic texts, with no hint of <a href="/wiki/Libel" class="mw-redirect" title="Libel">libel</a>, ceased to be brought to trial following the collapse of the <i>Inside Linda Lovelace</i> trial in 1976. However, in October 2008, a man was unsuccessfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act (the <i><a href="/wiki/R_v_Walker" title="R v Walker">R v Walker</a></i> trial) for posting fictional written material to the Internet allegedly describing the kidnap, rape and murder of the pop group <a href="/wiki/Girls_Aloud" title="Girls Aloud">Girls Aloud</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="First Amendment to the United States Constitution">First Amendment to the United States Constitution</a> gives protection to written fiction, although the legal presumption that it does not protect obscene literature has never been overcome. Instead, pornography has successfully been defined legally as non-obscene, or "obscene" been shown to be so vague a term as to be unenforceable. In 1998 <a href="/wiki/State_v._Dalton" title="State v. Dalton">Brian Dalton</a> was charged with creation and possession of child pornography under an Ohio obscenity law. The stories were works of fiction concerning sexually abusing children which he wrote and kept, unpublished, in his private journal. He accepted a plea bargain, pleaded guilty and was convicted.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Five years later, the conviction was <a href="/wiki/Vacated_judgment" title="Vacated judgment">vacated</a>. </p><p>Importing books and texts across national borders can sometimes be subject to more stringent laws than in the nations concerned. Customs officers are often permitted to seize even merely 'indecent' works that would be perfectly legal to sell and possess once one is inside the nations concerned. <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> has been implicated in such border seizures.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Although the Obscene Publications Act of 1857, as well as 1959 legislation, outlawed the publication, retail and trafficking of certain types of writings and images regarded as pornographic, and would order the destruction of shop and warehouse stock meant for sale, the private possession of and viewing of pornography was not prosecuted in those times.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In some nations, even purely textual erotic literature is still deemed illegal and is also prosecuted.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output 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works</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_genres" title="List of genres">List of genres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_pornographic_book_publishers" title="List of pornographic book publishers">List of pornographic book publishers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Literotica" title="Literotica">Literotica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography">Pornography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pornotopia" title="Pornotopia">Pornotopia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romance_novel" title="Romance novel">Romance novel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sex-positive_movement" title="Sex-positive movement">Sex-positive movement</a></li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 15,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Guinness+World+Records&rft.atitle=Oldest+love+poem&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.guinnessworldrecords.com%2Fworld-records%2Foldest-love-poem&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErotic+literature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFantReddish2008" class="citation book cs1">Fant, Clyde E.; Reddish, Mitchell G. (October 15, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Dj6zVQJz7zYC&q=Cuneiform+tablets+of+istanbul+2461&pg=PA247"><i>Lost Treasures of the Bible: Understanding the Bible Through Archaeological Artifacts in World Museums</i></a>. Wm. B. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 21,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Blogger+wrote+of+murdering+Girls+Aloud&rft.pub=Independent.co.uk&rft.date=2008-10-03&rft.aulast=Green&rft.aufirst=Chris&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk%2Fcrime%2Fblogger-wrote-of-murdering-girls-aloud-949711.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErotic+literature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120215181843/http://www.politechbot.com/p-02223.html">"Ohio man convicted for "obscene" stories in his private journal"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politechbot.com/p-02223.html">the original</a> on February 15, 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">April 28,</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Ohio+man+convicted+for+%22obscene%22+stories+in+his+private+journal&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politechbot.com%2Fp-02223.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErotic+literature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">H. Montgomery Hyde <i>A History of Pornography</i>. (1969) London, Heinemann: 14</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Brulotte, Gaëtan & Phillips, John (eds.) (2006) <i>Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature.</i> New York: Routledge</li> <li>Gibson, Ian (2001) <i>The Erotomaniac</i> London: Faber & Faber</li> <li>H. Montgomery Hyde (1964) <i>A History of Pornography</i>. London: Heinemann</li> <li>Kearney, Patrick J. (1982) <i>A History of Erotic Literature</i>, Parragon, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85813-198-7" title="Special:BookSources/1-85813-198-7">1-85813-198-7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eberhard_and_Phyllis_Kronhausen" title="Eberhard and Phyllis Kronhausen">Kronhausen, Phyllis & Eberhard</a> (1959) <i>Pornography and the Law, The Psychology of Erotic Realism and Pornography</i>. New York: Ballantine Books</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eberhard_and_Phyllis_Kronhausen" title="Eberhard and Phyllis Kronhausen">Kronhausen, Phyllis & Eberhard</a> (1969) <i>Erotic Fantasies, a Study of Sexual Imagination</i>. New York: Grove Press</li> <li>Muchembled, Robert (2008) <i>Orgasm and the West: a history of pleasure from the 16th century to the present</i>, <a href="/wiki/Polity_(publisher)" title="Polity (publisher)">Polity</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7456-3876-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-7456-3876-7">0-7456-3876-7</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSontag,_Susan1969" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Susan_Sontag" title="Susan Sontag">Sontag, Susan</a> (1969). <i>The Pornographic Imagination in Styles of Radical Will</i>. Picador. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-312-42021-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-312-42021-8"><bdi>0-312-42021-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Pornographic+Imagination+in+Styles+of+Radical+Will&rft.pub=Picador&rft.date=1969&rft.isbn=0-312-42021-8&rft.au=Sontag%2C+Susan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErotic+literature" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Weller, Michael J. <i>The Secret Blue Book</i>. Home Baked Books,<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/outputs/other/Stephen-Mooney-on-MJ-Wellers-Secret/99514067302346">[1]</a>, London.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linda_Williams_(film_critic)" class="mw-redirect" title="Linda Williams (film critic)">Williams, Linda</a> (1999) <i>Hardcore: Power, Pleasure, and the 'Frenzy of the Visible'</i>. Berkeley: University of California Press</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKearney1981" class="citation book cs1">Kearney, Patrick, ed. (1981). <i>The Private Case: an annotated bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British (Museum) Library</i>. London Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: J. Landesman Distributed by Humanities Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780905150246" title="Special:BookSources/9780905150246"><bdi>9780905150246</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Private+Case%3A+an+annotated+bibliography+of+the+Private+Case+Erotica+Collection+in+the+British+%28Museum%29+Library&rft.place=London+Atlantic+Highlands%2C+New+Jersey&rft.pub=J.+Landesman+Distributed+by+Humanities+Press&rft.date=1981&rft.isbn=9780905150246&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErotic+literature" class="Z3988"></span> With an introduction by G. Legman.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPietrek1992" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Pietrek, Klaus (1992). <i>Lexikon der erotischen Literatur: Autoren, Werke, Themen, Aspekte</i> (in German). Meitingen: Corian-Verl. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9783890480503" title="Special:BookSources/9783890480503"><bdi>9783890480503</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lexikon+der+erotischen+Literatur%3A+Autoren%2C+Werke%2C+Themen%2C+Aspekte&rft.place=Meitingen&rft.pub=Corian-Verl&rft.date=1992&rft.isbn=9783890480503&rft.aulast=Pietrek&rft.aufirst=Klaus&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErotic+literature" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBondy1989" class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Bondy, François (1989), "Erotische literatur", in Bondy, François (ed.), <i>Harenbergs Lexikon der Weltliteratur: Autoren – Werke – Begriffe (Band 2)</i> (in German), Dortmund: Harenberg-Lexikon-Verl, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9783611000911" title="Special:BookSources/9783611000911"><bdi>9783611000911</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Erotische+literatur&rft.btitle=Harenbergs+Lexikon+der+Weltliteratur%3A+Autoren+%E2%80%93+Werke+%E2%80%93+Begriffe+%28Band+2%29&rft.place=Dortmund&rft.pub=Harenberg-Lexikon-Verl&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=9783611000911&rft.aulast=Bondy&rft.aufirst=Fran%C3%A7ois&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErotic+literature" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchweikleSchweikle1990" class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Schweikle, Günther; Schweikle, Irmgard (1990), "Erotische literatur", in Schweikle, Günther; Schweikle, Irmgard (eds.), <i>Metzler Literatur Lexikon: Begriffe und Definitionen</i> (in German), vol. 2, Stuttgart: J.M. Metzlersche, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9783476006684" title="Special:BookSources/9783476006684"><bdi>9783476006684</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Erotische+literatur&rft.btitle=Metzler+Literatur+Lexikon%3A+Begriffe+und+Definitionen&rft.place=Stuttgart&rft.pub=J.M.+Metzlersche&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=9783476006684&rft.aulast=Schweikle&rft.aufirst=G%C3%BCnther&rft.au=Schweikle%2C+Irmgard&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErotic+literature" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFvon_Wilpert2001" class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">von Wilpert, Gero (2001), "Erotische literatur", in von Wilpert, Gero (ed.), <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/sachworterbuchde0000wilp"><i>Sachwörterbuch der Literatur</i></a></span> (in German), vol. 8, Stuttgart: Kröner, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9783520231086" title="Special:BookSources/9783520231086"><bdi>9783520231086</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Erotische+literatur&rft.btitle=Sachw%C3%B6rterbuch+der+Literatur&rft.place=Stuttgart&rft.pub=Kr%C3%B6ner&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=9783520231086&rft.aulast=von+Wilpert&rft.aufirst=Gero&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fsachworterbuchde0000wilp&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErotic+literature" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHogenBode2004" class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Hogen, Hildegard; Bode, Eva Beate (2004), "Erotische literatur", in Hogen, Hildegard; Bode, Eva Beate (eds.), <i>Der Brockhaus Literatur: Schriftsteller, Werke, Epochen, Sachbegriffe</i> (in German), vol. 2, Mannheim: F.A. Brockhaus, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9783765303517" title="Special:BookSources/9783765303517"><bdi>9783765303517</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Erotische+literatur&rft.btitle=Der+Brockhaus+Literatur%3A+Schriftsteller%2C+Werke%2C+Epochen%2C+Sachbegriffe&rft.place=Mannheim&rft.pub=F.A.+Brockhaus&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=9783765303517&rft.aulast=Hogen&rft.aufirst=Hildegard&rft.au=Bode%2C+Eva+Beate&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErotic+literature" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrulottePhillips2006" class="citation book cs1">Brulotte, Gaétan; Phillips, John, eds. (2006). <i>Encyclopedia of erotic literature</i>. New York: Routledge. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781579584412" title="Special:BookSources/9781579584412"><bdi>9781579584412</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Encyclopedia+of+erotic+literature&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=9781579584412&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErotic+literature" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoy2014" class="citation journal cs1">Roy, Pinaki (January 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160208031958/http://thelabyrinthjournal.com/pdfs/Labyrinth%20ISSN%200976-0814%20Vol.5%20No.1.pdf">"Reviewing <i>Steamies</i>: the literary steam of twenty-first century feminism"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Labyrinth</i>. <b>5</b> (1). Gwalior, India: Dr. Lata Mishra: 68–77. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0976-0814">0976-0814</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thelabyrinthjournal.com/pdfs/Labyrinth%20ISSN%200976-0814%20Vol.5%20No.1.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on February 8, 2016.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Labyrinth&rft.atitle=Reviewing+Steamies%3A+the+literary+steam+of+twenty-first+century+feminism&rft.volume=5&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=68-77&rft.date=2014-01&rft.issn=0976-0814&rft.aulast=Roy&rft.aufirst=Pinaki&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fthelabyrinthjournal.com%2Fpdfs%2FLabyrinth%2520ISSN%25200976-0814%2520Vol.5%2520No.1.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErotic+literature" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStraight" class="citation web cs1">Straight, Sheryl. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eroticabibliophile.com/publishers_carrington_a_d.php">"The erotica bibliophile"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+erotica+bibliophile&rft.aulast=Straight&rft.aufirst=Sheryl&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eroticabibliophile.com%2Fpublishers_carrington_a_d.php&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErotic+literature" class="Z3988"></span> A Bibliography of Works Published by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Carrington" title="Charles Carrington">Charles Carrington</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWood2015" class="citation journal cs1">Wood, Rachel (July 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://shura.shu.ac.uk/14743/3/Wood%20-%20Sexual%20consumption%20within%20sexual%20labour%20%28AM%29.pdf">"Sexual consumption within sexual labour: producing and consuming erotic texts and sexual commodities"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Porn_Studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Porn Studies">Porn Studies</a></i>. <b>2</b> (2–3). <a href="/wiki/Taylor_and_Francis" class="mw-redirect" title="Taylor and Francis">Taylor and Francis</a>: 250–262. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F23268743.2015.1051308">10.1080/23268743.2015.1051308</a>. <a href="/wiki/Hdl_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hdl (identifier)">hdl</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10034%2F621054">10034/621054</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143264651">143264651</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Porn+Studies&rft.atitle=Sexual+consumption+within+sexual+labour%3A+producing+and+consuming+erotic+texts+and+sexual+commodities&rft.volume=2&rft.issue=2%E2%80%933&rft.pages=250-262&rft.date=2015-07&rft_id=info%3Ahdl%2F10034%2F621054&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A143264651%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1080%2F23268743.2015.1051308&rft.aulast=Wood&rft.aufirst=Rachel&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fshura.shu.ac.uk%2F14743%2F3%2FWood%2520-%2520Sexual%2520consumption%2520within%2520sexual%2520labour%2520%2528AM%2529.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErotic+literature" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History_2">History</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="General">General</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: General"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Atkins, John (1970) <i>Sex in Literature</i>, 4 vols. 1970–1982</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bertolotti,_Alessandro" class="mw-redirect" title="Bertolotti, Alessandro">Bertolotti, Alessandro</a>. Curiosa la bibliotheque érotique. Paris, Editions La Martiniere, 2012, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-2-7324-5274-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-2-7324-5274-6">978-2-7324-5274-6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippe_Di_Folco" title="Philippe Di Folco">Di Folco, Philippe</a>, ed. (2005) <i>Dictionnaire de la pornographie</i>. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/2-130-54414-2" title="Special:BookSources/2-130-54414-2">2-130-54414-2</a></li> <li>Englisch, Paul (1927) <i>Geschichte der erotischen Literatur</i>, 1927, Reprint 1977, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-921695-01-5" title="Special:BookSources/3-921695-01-5">3-921695-01-5</a></li> <li>Fischer, Carolin (1997) <i>Gärten der Lust: eine Geschichte erregender Lektüren</i>, Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-476-01563-7" title="Special:BookSources/3-476-01563-7">3-476-01563-7</a>, paperback: München: Dt. Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2000</li> <li>Gnüg, Hiltrud (2002) <i>Der erotische Roman: von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart</i>, Ditzingen: Reclam <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-15-017634-4" title="Special:BookSources/3-15-017634-4">3-15-017634-4</a></li> <li>Kronhausen, Eberhard & Phyllis (1969) <i>Bücher aus dem Giftschrank: eine Analyse der verbotenen und verfemten erotischen Literatur</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pascal_Pia" title="Pascal Pia">Pia, Pascal</a>, ed. (1971) <i>Dictionnaire des œuvres érotiques</i>. Paris: Mercure de France</li> <li>Schreiber, Hermann (1969) <i>Erotische Texte: sexualpathologische Erscheinungen in der Literatur</i></li> <li>Spedding, Patrick, curator (2010) <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/159732/catalogue.pdf">Lewd and Scandalous Books: An exhibition of material from the Monash University Library Rare Books Collection</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220205195328/http://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/159732/catalogue.pdf">Archived</a> February 5, 2022, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></i>, Clayton (Melbourne): Monash University,</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ancient_world_and_Middle_Ages">Ancient world and Middle Ages</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Ancient world and Middle Ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Leick, G. (1994) <i>Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-415-06534-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-415-06534-8">0-415-06534-8</a></li> <li>Mulchandani, S. (2006) <i>Erotic Literature of Ancient India: Kama Sutra, Koka Shastra, Gita Govindam, Ananga Ranga</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/81-7436-384-X" title="Special:BookSources/81-7436-384-X">81-7436-384-X</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Modern_times_to_1900">Modern times to 1900</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erotic_literature&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Modern times to 1900"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Goulemot, J. (1993) <i>Gefährliche Bücher: erotische Literatur, Pornographie, Leser und Zensur im 18. Jahrhundert</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-499-55528-X" title="Special:BookSources/3-499-55528-X">3-499-55528-X</a></li> <li>Moulton, I. 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href="/wiki/Peripeteia" title="Peripeteia">Peripeteia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catastasis" title="Catastasis">Falling action/Catastasis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catastrophe_(drama)" title="Catastrophe (drama)">Denouement/Catastrophe</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narrative_structure" class="mw-redirect" title="Narrative structure">Linear narrative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nonlinear_narrative" title="Nonlinear narrative">Nonlinear narrative</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_nonlinear_narrative_films" title="List of nonlinear narrative films">films</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_nonlinear_narrative_television_series" title="List of nonlinear narrative television series">television series</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premise_(narrative)" title="Premise (narrative)">Premise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Types_of_fiction_with_multiple_endings" title="Types of fiction with multiple endings">Types of fiction with multiple endings</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_narrative_forms" title="List of narrative forms">Form</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Drama" title="Drama">Drama</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fabliau" title="Fabliau">Fabliau</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flash_fiction" title="Flash fiction">Flash fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">Folklore</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fable" title="Fable">Fable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairy_tale" title="Fairy tale">Fairy tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legend" title="Legend">Legend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myth" title="Myth">Myth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tall_tale" title="Tall tale">Tall tale</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamebook" title="Gamebook">Gamebook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narrative_art" title="Narrative art">Narrative art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narrative_poetry" title="Narrative poetry">Narrative poetry</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">Epic poetry</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novel" title="Novel">Novel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novella" title="Novella">Novella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parable" title="Parable">Parable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Short_story" title="Short story">Short story</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vignette_(literature)" title="Vignette (literature)">Vignette</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Literary_genre" title="Literary genre">Genre</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/List_of_writing_genres" title="List of writing genres">List</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fiction" title="Fiction">Fiction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Action_fiction" title="Action fiction">Action fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adventure_fiction" title="Adventure fiction">Adventure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comic_novel" title="Comic novel">Comic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_fiction" title="Crime fiction">Crime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Docufiction" title="Docufiction">Docu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epistolary_novel" title="Epistolary novel">Epistolary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ergodic_literature" title="Ergodic literature">Ergodic</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Erotic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_fiction" title="Historical fiction">Historical</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Western_fiction" title="Western fiction">Western</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mystery_fiction" title="Mystery fiction">Mystery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nautical_fiction" title="Nautical fiction">Nautical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paranoid_fiction" title="Paranoid fiction">Paranoid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophical_fiction" title="Philosophical fiction">Philosophical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Picaresque_novel" title="Picaresque novel">Picaresque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_fiction" title="Political fiction">Political</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pop_culture_fiction" title="Pop culture fiction">Pop culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psychological_fiction" title="Psychological fiction">Psychological</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inspirational_fiction" title="Inspirational fiction">Religious</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rogue_literature" title="Rogue literature">Rogue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romance_novel" title="Romance novel">Romance</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chivalric_romance" title="Chivalric romance">Chivalric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romance_(prose_fiction)" title="Romance (prose fiction)">Prose</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saga" title="Saga">Saga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">Satire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speculative_fiction" title="Speculative fiction">Speculative fiction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">Fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_fiction" title="Gothic fiction">Gothic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Gothic" title="Southern Gothic">Southern</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horror_fiction" title="Horror fiction">Horror</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magic_realism" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic realism">Magic realism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">Science</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hard_science_fiction" title="Hard science fiction">Hard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utopian_and_dystopian_fiction" title="Utopian and dystopian fiction">Utopian and dystopian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_underwater_science_fiction_works" title="List of underwater science fiction works">Underwater</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superhero_fiction" title="Superhero fiction">Superhero</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theological_fiction" title="Theological fiction">Theological</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thriller_(genre)" title="Thriller (genre)">Thriller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_fiction" title="Urban fiction">Urban</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nonfiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Nonfiction">Nonfiction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autobiography" title="Autobiography">Autobiography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biography" title="Biography">Biography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Non-fiction_novel" title="Non-fiction novel">Novel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creative_nonfiction" title="Creative nonfiction">Creative</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Narration" title="Narration">Narration</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Diegesis" title="Diegesis">Diegesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First-person_narrative" title="First-person narrative">First-person</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second-person_narrative" class="mw-redirect" title="Second-person narrative">Second-person</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third-person_narrative" class="mw-redirect" title="Third-person narrative">Third-person</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Third-person_omniscient_narrative" class="mw-redirect" title="Third-person omniscient narrative">Third-person omniscient narrative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narration#Subjective_or_objective" title="Narration">Subjectivity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unreliable_narrator" title="Unreliable narrator">Unreliable narrator</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multiperspectivity" title="Multiperspectivity">Multiple narrators</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stream_of_consciousness" title="Stream of consciousness">Stream of consciousness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stream_of_unconsciousness" title="Stream of unconsciousness">Stream of unconsciousness</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Grammatical_tense" title="Grammatical tense">Tense</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Past_tense" title="Past tense">Past</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Present_tense" title="Present tense">Present</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Future_tense" title="Future tense">Future</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dominant_narrative" title="Dominant narrative">Dominant narrative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fiction_writing" title="Fiction writing">Fiction writing</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Continuity_(fiction)" title="Continuity (fiction)">Continuity</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canon_(fiction)" title="Canon (fiction)">Canon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reboot_(fiction)" title="Reboot (fiction)">Reboot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Retroactive_continuity" title="Retroactive continuity">Retcon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parallel_novel" title="Parallel novel">Parallel novel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prequel" title="Prequel">Prequel</a> / <a href="/wiki/Sequel" title="Sequel">Sequel</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genre" title="Genre">Genre</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_genres" title="List of genres">List</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Literary_criticism" title="Literary criticism">Literary science</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Literary_theory" title="Literary theory">Literary theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narrative_identity" title="Narrative identity">Narrative identity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narrative_paradigm" title="Narrative paradigm">Narrative paradigm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narrative_therapy" title="Narrative therapy">Narrative therapy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narratology" title="Narratology">Narratology</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Metafiction" title="Metafiction">Metafiction</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_narrative" title="Political narrative">Political narrative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhetoric" title="Rhetoric">Rhetoric</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_rhetorical_terms" title="Glossary of rhetorical terms">Glossary</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Screenwriting" title="Screenwriting">Screenwriting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Storytelling" title="Storytelling">Storytelling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tellability" title="Tellability">Tellability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verisimilitude_(fiction)" title="Verisimilitude (fiction)">Verisimilitude</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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title="Tijuana bible">Tijuana bible</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Child_pornography" title="Child pornography">Child</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Child_erotica" title="Child erotica">Erotica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simulated_child_pornography" title="Simulated child pornography">Simulated</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deepfake_pornography" title="Deepfake pornography">Deepfake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feminist_pornography" title="Feminist pornography">Feminist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hardcore_pornography" title="Hardcore pornography">Hardcore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_pornography" title="Internet pornography">Internet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mobile_porn" title="Mobile porn">Mobile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revenge_porn" title="Revenge porn">Revenge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexting" title="Sexting">Sexting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Softcore_pornography" title="Softcore pornography">Softcore</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFBCD9;text-align:right;;width:1%">Genres</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alt_porn" title="Alt porn">Alt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bondage_pornography" title="Bondage pornography">Bondage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clop_(erotic_fan_art)" title="Clop (erotic fan art)">Clopping</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convent_pornography" title="Convent pornography">Convent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethnic_pornography" title="Ethnic pornography">Ethnic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gang_bang_pornography" class="mw-redirect" title="Gang bang pornography">Gang bang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gonzo_pornography" title="Gonzo pornography">Gonzo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Incest_pornography" title="Incest pornography">Incest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MILF_pornography" title="MILF pornography">MILF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mormon_pornography" title="Mormon pornography">Mormon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rape_pornography" title="Rape pornography">Rape</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reality_pornography" title="Reality pornography">Reality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sissy_hypno" title="Sissy hypno">Sissy hypno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tentacle_erotica" title="Tentacle erotica">Tentacle</a></li> <li>LGBTQ: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lesbian_erotica" title="Lesbian erotica">Lesbian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gay_pornography" title="Gay pornography">Gay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bisexual_pornography" title="Bisexual pornography">Bisexual</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transgender_pornography" title="Transgender pornography">Transgender</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queer_pornography" title="Queer pornography">Queer</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Porn_for_women" title="Porn for women">Women's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yiff" title="Yiff">Yiffing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zoophilic_pornography" class="mw-redirect" title="Zoophilic pornography">Zoophilic</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFBCD9;text-align:right;;width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_erotic_depictions" title="History of erotic depictions">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pornographic_film_actor" title="Pornographic film actor">Film actor</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFBCD9;text-align:right;;width:1%">Organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adult_Film_Association_of_America" title="Adult Film Association of America">Adult Film Association of America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Critics_Adult_Film_Association" title="Critics Adult Film Association">Critics Adult Film Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fans_of_X-Rated_Entertainment" title="Fans of X-Rated Entertainment">Fans of X-Rated Entertainment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_Speech_Coalition" title="Free Speech Coalition">Free Speech Coalition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/X-Rated_Critics_Organization" title="X-Rated Critics Organization">X-Rated Critics Organization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_pornography_companies" title="List of pornography companies">List of pornography companies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_pornographic_film_studios" title="List of pornographic film studios">List of pornographic film studios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuck_for_Forest" title="Fuck for Forest">Fuck for Forest</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FBAED2;;width:1%;background: #FFA6C9;"><a href="/wiki/Opposition_to_pornography" title="Opposition to pornography">Opposition to<br />pornography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFBCD9;;width:1%">Movements</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anti-pornography_movement_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Anti-pornography movement in the United Kingdom">Anti-pornography movement in the United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-pornography_movement_in_the_United_States" title="Anti-pornography movement in the United States">Anti-pornography movement in the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antipornography_Civil_Rights_Ordinance" title="Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance">Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFBCD9;;width:1%">Organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Churchmen%27s_Committee_for_Decent_Publications" title="Churchmen's Committee for Decent Publications">Churchmen's Committee for Decent Publications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feminists_Fighting_Pornography" title="Feminists Fighting Pornography">Feminists Fighting Pornography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fight_the_New_Drug" title="Fight the New Drug">Fight the New Drug</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Marriage_Vow" title="The Marriage Vow">The Marriage Vow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/No_More_Page_3" title="No More Page 3">No More Page 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stop_Bild_Sexism" title="Stop Bild Sexism">Stop Bild Sexism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stop_Child_Trafficking_Now" title="Stop Child Trafficking Now">Stop Child Trafficking Now</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stop_Porn_Culture" title="Stop Porn Culture">Stop Porn Culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_Against_Pornography" title="Women Against Pornography">Women Against Pornography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_Against_Violence_in_Pornography_and_Media" title="Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media">Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/XXXchurch.com" title="XXXchurch.com">XXXchurch.com</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFBCD9;;width:1%">Overuse</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Accountability_software" title="Accountability software">Accountability software</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Employee_monitoring_software" title="Employee monitoring software">Employee monitoring software</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_filter" title="Internet filter">Internet 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Audio_porn" title="Audio porn">Audio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pornographic_film" title="Pornographic film">Film</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cartoon_pornography" title="Cartoon pornography">Cartoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pornographic_parody_film" title="Pornographic parody film">Parody</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Generative_AI_pornography" title="Generative AI pornography">Generative AI pornography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pornographic_magazine" title="Pornographic magazine">Magazines</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_pornographic_magazines" title="List of pornographic magazines">List</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Page_3" title="Page 3">Page 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexual_content_in_video_games" title="Sexual content in video games">Video games</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eroge" title="Eroge">Eroge</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: 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