The Cannibals (mid-Victorian club)
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The Cannibals were a mid-Victorian Club, whose members included many eminent anthropologists, lawyers and writers. Richard Burton
, A. C. Swinburne, and Richard Monckton Milnes were all members. They 'consumed pornography and erotica with a passion, (not) as a project of liberation, but as personal and private, a function of social and educational superiority.http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/314
Richard Francis Burton
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS was a British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas as well as his...
, A. C. Swinburne, and Richard Monckton Milnes were all members. They 'consumed pornography and erotica with a passion, (not) as a project of liberation, but as personal and private, a function of social and educational superiority.http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/314