Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century England

Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century England
Author: Sarah Toulalan
Oxford University Press Inc.
2007
Pages: 334
Format: PDF
Size: 6 Mb
Language: English

Imagining Sex is a study of pornographic writing in seventeenth-century England. It explores a wide variety of written material from the period to argue that, unlike today, pornography was not a discrete genre, nor was it one that was usually subject at this time to suppression. Pornographic writing was a widespread feature of a range of texts, including both popular literature (ballads, news-sheets, court reports, small books, and pamphlets) as well as poetry, drama and more specialised medical books.