Verschlagwortet: Pornographie
A last blogpost on 18th c. erotic culture (really not my field of expertise)… As I learned from a blog on ‘revolutionary trivia’, namely http://rodama1789.blogspot.de/2015/03/scandalous-societies-order-of-felicity.html there was a society of libertines called ‘Ordre hermaphrodite‘ in the...
As mentioned in a previous post, researching the story of a medieval hermaphrodite monk led me – more or less directly – to the strange world of 18th c. erotica, and specifically the Count of Mirabeau....
In the late fifteenth century, according to several near-contemporary sources, a monk gave birth to a child at Issoire in the Auvergne. This story attracted the attention of Jean de Roy, Jean Molinet and Jean de...
If Pliny provided naturalists, philosophers and ethnographic writers with a prose account of ‘hermaphrodites’, Ovid was the perennial source of the lyrical variation of the theme. Given the popularity of his Metamorphoses, one could cite new...