The History of Pornography

Most pornography at that time was circulated in the form of manuscript macellones. People would keep a macellony of these kinds of things but also recipes and school exercises. They'd just keep them all bound together for themselves and to give to their friends. But there was only ever one copy of each one. Antony Scattergood has an erotic poem called On Six Cambridge Maids Bathing Themselves by Queens College June 1516 29 which is quite good. And then immediately after that is a recipe that says for the eyes take snails and prick them through the shells with a great pin. So that frankly probably less attractive than the six.