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Inside the Museum of Sex s 150-Year-Old Porn Stash - The Daily Beast
"Inside the Museum of Sex’s 150-Year-Old Porn Stash
While online porn may seem a world away from the brothel catalogs of long ago, the Museum of Sex’s latest show shows our appetite for porn is long—and inventive.
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For most, pornography isn’t a comfortable topic of conversation. Although sex and sexual imagery have both drenched our culture, explicit erotic material is still deemed to be a private matter.
We hide it in our homes, behind televisions, in drawers, or watch it at home.
“We think that we invented hardcore porn,” Mark Snyder, the Museum of Sex’s director of exhibitions, told The Daily Beast, noting how the digital age has facilitated its growth and demand. “But it’s really something that people have been creating for a very long time.”
Walking into the Museum of Sex’s latest exhibition, Hardcore: A Century and a Half of Obscene Imagery, his point immediately became apparent.
The first glimpse the viewer gets—erotic literature dating back to the 1500s—is full of sexual desires and fantasies that, at some moments, can be viewed as “more hardcore than any of the things we see today,” according to Snyder."
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Made a thread just a bit ago about some antique French porn from the 30s I saw. Of course, prior to the invention of film you had photography, and before that was invented drawings. But "porn" is not new by any means.
"Inside the Museum of Sex’s 150-Year-Old Porn Stash
While online porn may seem a world away from the brothel catalogs of long ago, the Museum of Sex’s latest show shows our appetite for porn is long—and inventive.
Shop ▾
For most, pornography isn’t a comfortable topic of conversation. Although sex and sexual imagery have both drenched our culture, explicit erotic material is still deemed to be a private matter.
We hide it in our homes, behind televisions, in drawers, or watch it at home.
“We think that we invented hardcore porn,” Mark Snyder, the Museum of Sex’s director of exhibitions, told The Daily Beast, noting how the digital age has facilitated its growth and demand. “But it’s really something that people have been creating for a very long time.”
Walking into the Museum of Sex’s latest exhibition, Hardcore: A Century and a Half of Obscene Imagery, his point immediately became apparent.
The first glimpse the viewer gets—erotic literature dating back to the 1500s—is full of sexual desires and fantasies that, at some moments, can be viewed as “more hardcore than any of the things we see today,” according to Snyder."
rest at link
Made a thread just a bit ago about some antique French porn from the 30s I saw. Of course, prior to the invention of film you had photography, and before that was invented drawings. But "porn" is not new by any means.
