The Library Illustrative of Social Progress
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The Library Illustrative of Social Progress was a series of pornographic
books published by John Camden Hotten
around 1872 (falsely dated 1777). They were mainly reprints of eighteenth-century pornographic works on flagellation
. Hotten claimed to have found them in the library of Henry Thomas Buckle
(1821–1862) but Henry Spencer Ashbee
counterclaimed that they were in fact from his collection.
Henderson adds:
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,...
books published 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...
around 1872 (falsely dated 1777). They were mainly reprints of eighteenth-century pornographic works on 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...
. 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:...
counterclaimed that they were in fact from his collection.
Titles
Ashbee lists:- Heinrich Meibom, De Flagorum Usu in re Medica et Venera (A Treatise on the Use of Flogging in Venereal Affairs, 1638)
- Exhibition of Female FlagellantsExhibition of Female FlagellantsExhibition of Female Flagellants is a pornographic novel published by George Cannon in London in 1830 and attributed, probably falsely, to Theresa Berkley. The principal activity described is flagellation, mainly of women by women, described in a theatrical, fetishistic style...
: describing flagellation, mainly of women by women, described in a theatrical, fetishistic style - Fashionable LecturesFashionable LecturesFashionable 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...
: on the theme of flagellation by dominant women in positions of authority - Female Flagellants (1777) (around 1750)
- Lady Bumtickler's RevelsLady Bumtickler's RevelsLady Bumtickler’s Revels is a pornographic comic opera on the theme of flagellation written and published by John Camden Hotten in 1872 in his series The Library Illustrative of Social Progress. It purports to have been "performed at Lady Bumtickler’s private theatre in Birch Grove, with unbounded...
: comic opera on the joys of flagellation - Madame Birchini's Dance:a long poem in which the heroine cures a man of impotence by flagellation
- The Sublime of Flagellation
Henderson adds:
- The RodiadThe RodiadThe Rodiad is a pornographic poem on the subject of flagellation published by John Camden Hotten in 1871, although falsely dated to 1810. It has been ascribed, apparently falsely, to George Colman the Younger. A candidate for its authorship is Richard Monckton Milnes...