History of Porn

[RainDog]

4. The Pompeii murals were in people's homes

they weren't religious in nature.

They were part of the public rooms of people's homes.

The Victorians were extremely misogynistic against prostitutes, no matter what anyone wants to say about it and, in fact, were very disturbed by views of the human body as part of society - this is a fact.

I worked on a collection of British Victorian porn - they, in fact, talked about it a lot, among certain people - but could also be arrested for doing the same.

The Enabling Acts came about to stop the spread of venereal disease when soldiers returned from the Crimean War. The government refused to have any soldiers checked for disease but could arrest any female who was alone on the street as a possible prostitute and subject her to medical examination and lock her away.

I have read primary source documents about this issue. After years and years of this, Josephine Butler helped to lead a campaign to stop the discrimination against females - the soldiers had been exempted b/c the powers-that-be in parliament did not want to hurt soldiers' morale.

Women's lives could be ruined by the suggestion that they had engaged in prostitution. Among the lower class, female prostitution was often done out of necessity - not all women were full-time prostitutes.

Victorians were, for the most part, anti-birth control - because they associated the same with loose women - and the French - whom they hated.

Annie Besant was routinely vilified in the press for supporting birth control and family planning for the poor to help relieve their poverty.

They were a colonial power because they viewed others as subhuman.