• TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Nah. Here’s the real thing, NSFW, obviously

    https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/victorian-erotica-pornography/

    It didn’t end with photography either! Porn shops proliferated, along with erotic novels such as The Autobiography of a Flea and The Whippingham Papers (both anonymously written). Stereoscopy, invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1838, was a method of creating images that could be viewed through a stereoscope to reveal a 3-dimensional one. This offered new possibilities for the erotic image. Condoms existed, sex toys were nothing new, and while prostitution was frowned upon, strangely there was no shortage of available sex workers. Despite their image of “we’ll have none of that here”, the Victorians were actually rather obsessed with sex.