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A History of Porn

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Queer Pornography and Trans Identity

In the 19th century there doesn't seem to be a niche for queer pornography it seems to coexist alongside and within other kinds of pornography that do narrate straight experience. In the late 19th century a novel like Sins of the Cities of the Plain which is very... Oh yeah he loved a better cop didn't he? There's a lesser known sequel to Sins called Letters Between Laura and Evelyne and that novel which is held at the British Library has two narrators who are both I think now call them trans women or at the very least non-binary people with penises having sex with people gendered as men but describing their own bodies as having a penis that turns into a

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