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How London’s Original Underground Paper ‘International Times’ Fought the Straight Press

How London’s Original Underground Paper ‘International Times’ Fought the Straight Press

The International Times of London wielded its irreverent, satirical, often juvenile sense of humor as a weapon against real censorship and state repression ...
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The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

  'Beauty Revealed' is a self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge (February 5, 1788 ...
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The Soviet Sex Alphabet by Sergey Merkurov, 1931 (NSFW)

The Soviet Sex Alphabet by Sergey Merkurov, 1931 (NSFW)

In 1931 a revered Soviet patriot took a break from making grandiose statues of Lenin to create an erotic alphabet ...
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The Complete Erotic Fantaisies Parisiennes, 1880 by Frédillo (NSFW)

The Complete Erotic Fantaisies Parisiennes, 1880 by Frédillo (NSFW)

Frédillo (or Fredillo) was a French cartoonist and illustrator working in the late 19th Century. ...
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Buy Prints From Nudes to an Earthquake: The trail-blazing photography of Arnold Genthe

From Nudes to an Earthquake: The trail-blazing photography of Arnold Genthe

Like many other photographers at the time, Genthe documented everything. He was a portrait photographer, a photo-journalist, and an artist. ...
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Gene Bilbrew : The Singing Fetish Artist And His Fabulous 1960s Pulp Fiction Sex Covers

Gene Bilbrew : The Singing Fetish Artist And His Fabulous 1960s Pulp Fiction Sex Covers

The brilliant artist whose pictures sold paperback sex by the millions and died without trace ...
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Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’

Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’

Aubrey Beardsley's artistic career began with schoolboy doodles in the margins of text books and ended in near poverty drawing erotica for private collectors. ...
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Alice Denham : The Topless Model Who Wrote For Playboy

Alice Denham : The Topless Model Who Wrote For Playboy

Alice Denham squired James Dean (a tender lover), Joseph Heller (good kisser), Philip Roth ("on fire") and Hugh Hefner (“a good ride, a steady canter”) ...
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Dirty Postcards: Vintage erotic photographs from over a century ago (NSFW)

Dirty Postcards: Vintage erotic photographs from over a century ago (NSFW)

Dirty postcards sounds disapproving, censorious as if there is something wrong, something shameful about the naked body (like Adam and Eve covering their nakedness from God) and something deeply unsavoury about sexual intercourse. ...
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Buy Prints E. J. Bellocq’s Surviving Storyville Photographs Circa 1912

E. J. Bellocq’s Surviving Storyville Photographs Circa 1912

Wonderful portraits of prostitutes in America's first red-light district ...
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News From the Bedroom: The Pillow Library – 19th Century Japanese Erotica

News From the Bedroom: The Pillow Library – 19th Century Japanese Erotica

Kesai Eisen inspired Van Gogh. He also created these erotic prints - two of which show us sex from the inside ...
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Banned In The USA: Charges et Décharges Diaboliques by Eugène Lepoittevin

Banned In The USA: Charges et Décharges Diaboliques by Eugène Lepoittevin

Twelve satirical images the USA once considered "obscene and immoral" (NSFW) ...
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