Sex Literature
Sex or erotic literature should be seen separate from pornography. The difference is in intention and substance. Sex or erotic literature can be divided into following:
- Novels
- Short Stories
- Poetry
- Memoirs
- Manuals
Some earlier noted literature is:
- Poem “A Ramble in St. James’s Park” by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
- English collections of erotic verse likePills to Purge Melancholy theRoxburghe Ballads, Bishop Percy’s Folio.
- Erotic poem – “An Essay on Woman” and “The Maid’s Prayer”.
- Scottish folk songs like The Merry Muses of Caledonia
- The Flogging Block “by Rufus Rodworthy
- “Phallus in Wonderland” and “The Pleasure of the Flesh” by Gavin Ewart
Erotic fiction
- “Dialogues of Luisa Sigea” by Nicholas Chorier
- Classic erotica “Satyricon” of Petronius Arbiter
- “Decameron” by Giovanni Boccaccio
- “The tale of two lovers” by Aeneas SylviusPiccolomini
- “I Modi” by Giulio Romano
- “Whore dialogue” by Artenio
- “L’Ecole des filles” translated as “The School of Venus” by Donald Thomas
- Chorier’s“Dialogues of Luisa Sigea”translated in many languages
- “Sodom” by Restoration Rake and john Wilmot
- Merryland books by Edmund Curll
- “Fanny Hill” by John Cleland
- “Les Bijoux Indiscrets” by Diderot
- “Laura’s Education” by Comte de Mirabeau
- “Index LibrorumProhibitorum”“CenturiaLibrorumAbsconditorum” and “Catena LibrorumTacendorum” by Henry Spencer Ashbee
- “Two nights of excess” by Alfred de Musset
- “Venus in furs” by Leopold von SacherMasoch
- “Suburban Souls” by Carrington
- “Sodopaideia” and “A weekend visit” by Anon
- “Helen and desire” by Alexander Trocchi
- “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov
- “50 Shades” by E L James
Other noted works
- “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon” by W T Stead
- “The intimate adventures of a London Call Girl” by Belle de Jour
Erotic memoirs
“Histoire de ma vie” by Casanova
“The ups and downs of life” by Edward Sellon
“My life and loves” by Frank Harris
“Confessions and experiences” by Edith Cadivec
“One hundred strokes of the brush before bed” by Melissa Panarello