Fashionable Lectures
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Fashionable Lectures: composed and delivered with Birch Discipline was a pornographic
book originally published in the 18th century and republished by John Camden Hotten
as volume 7 of his series The Library Illustrative of Social Progress
around 1872 (falsely dated 1777). Hotten claimed to have found them in the library of Henry Thomas Buckle
(1821–1862) but Henry Spencer Ashbee
claimed that they were in fact from his collection. The first edition was published around 1750 and again with illustrations by William Holland
in the 1780s.
The theme of the work is flagellation
by dominant women in positions of authority.
Pornography
Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,...
book originally published in the 18th century and republished by John Camden Hotten
John Camden Hotten
John Camden Hotten was an English bibliophile and publisher.Hotten was born in Clerkenwell, London to a family of Cornish origins. He spent the period 1848–1856 in America and on his return opened a small bookshop in London at 151a Piccadilly, and founded the publishing firm later known as Chatto...
as volume 7 of his series The Library Illustrative of Social Progress
The Library Illustrative of Social Progress
The Library Illustrative of Social Progress was a series of pornographic books published by John Camden Hotten around 1872 . They were mainly reprints of eighteenth-century pornographic works on flagellation...
around 1872 (falsely dated 1777). Hotten claimed to have found them in the library of Henry Thomas Buckle
Henry Thomas Buckle
Henry Thomas Buckle was an English historian, author of an unfinished History of Civilization.- Biography :...
(1821–1862) but Henry Spencer Ashbee
Henry Spencer Ashbee
Henry Spencer Ashbee was a book collector, writer, and bibliographer, notorious for his massive, clandestine three volume bibliography of erotic literature written under the pseudonym of Pisanus Fraxi.-Life:...
claimed that they were in fact from his collection. The first edition was published around 1750 and again with illustrations by William Holland
William Holland
William Holland is now best remembered for his diary, which he kept from 1799 to 1818. The diary chronicles his life as the vicar of Over Stowey, Somerset. In a similar fashion to the diary of Thomas Turner, Holland's diary is a personal consideration of the workings of country life during a time...
in the 1780s.
The theme of the work is flagellation
Flagellation
Flagellation or flogging is the act of methodically beating or whipping the human body. Specialised implements for it include rods, switches, the cat o' nine tails and the sjambok...
by dominant women in positions of authority.