A History of Porn
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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Pornography and Queer History
There's a long history not even in porn but medical texts which often actually kind of there's a sort of a weird crossover in some 18th century medical quote-unquote text. There are historians who have argued that the story of gender difference arose because the medical theory was that the clitoris was a small penis. So it's another example of how pornography is sort of mixed in with these other discourses and how queer identity seems to be like central to the story that pornography is trying to tell.
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