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A History of Porn
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
Don't Throw Out Your Porn
An aristocrat in the late 19th century Henry Spencer Ashby donated his immense collection of pornography and other things to the British Museum. There is evidence that the pornography that he collected from the time he was alive has been destroyed. It's just gutting isn't it? He writes about a dominatrix called Teresa Berkeley and in his account event it's one of the only accounts that we've got which says there were loads of letters that were preserved but then they were destroyed after she died.
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