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A History of Porn

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

CHAPTER

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and Roger Lovejoy

In the 18th century everything was called lued wasn't it? The adventures of Robinson Crusoe is one but in a pornographic novel I write about in my book the main title is The Progressive Nature. A hundred years later in the 1850s the term pornography will start to arise as a differentiation and I think that's when you get more secrecy around the genre. In being heterosexual it examined women's experience more than other kinds of writing did. There are ways that men's and boys desire for and claims to women's bodies are protested in language right.

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