Erotica Links

 

Museums and libraries

(see also Wikipedia here and here )

Erotica in Australian Libraries

British Museum of Erotic Art, (Web only), Britain

Museum Erotica, Copenhagen, Denmark

DMK Erotic Art Museum, (Web only), Paris, France

Musée de l’érotisme, Paris, France (and Wikipedia)

Beate Uhse Erotic Museum, Berlin, Germany (Wikipedia only)

‘Secret Museum’, Naples, Italy (Wikipedia and art and popular culture only)

World Museum of Erotic Art (Web only), server at Amsterdam, Netherlands

Especially Genet’s 1950 film Un chant d’ amour

Sex Museum, Russia (News article only)

Erotic Museum of Barcelona, Spain

Erotic Heritage Museum, USA

Erotic Museum, Hollywood, USA

World Erotic Art Museum, Miami Beach, USA

Museum of Sex, New York, USA

 

Websites

aliciante (photoblog)

art and popular culture (wiki maintained by Jahsonic)

Arterotismo with illustrations by many artists of previous centuries

Black Angel

chestyleroux (blog with liking for old and ancient representations of sex)

China Hamilton - photographer

Corpscircuit (photoblog - mainly women)

Dan et Camilla (photoblog - a couple’s photographs of each other)

devora ran - online Spanish sex-culture mag (in English too)

Erotica Lee (blog - photography, including highly manipulated pics)

{feuilleton} (blog - literature, gay iconography)

Garmskiss (blog - lots of exciting clips and other stuff (thanks to c.j.g. at Erotica Lee))

High on Sex (anything sexual!)

Historia del arte erotico (excellent site with erotica through the ages, including prehistoric)

Jahsonic (blog - with interest in erotic art)

lemateurdart (lots of erotic paintings)

Los Bellos Muchachos de Sodoma: Imágenes homosexuales del siglo XVIII

Lovepeaceandpenis (mainly photos of penises, but including text)

Narcissus (photography)

Nathalia se Devoile (photography)

Orazio Centaro’s Art Images on the Web (paintings through history)

Pornokrates ‘Historic Smut for the Discerning Voyeur’

Private sculpture (body casts)

Rare Erotica Vintage erotica

Roma in Second Life:

To see a good presentation about ancient Roman sexuality see Roma in Second Life. Search for ‘SPQR’ and you should find it. Once at Roma, find the museum. It’s up near the temples, next to the library. The exhibition is upstairs.

sensotheque: blog and website - ‘refined erotica’ - ‘literotica, cinerotica & boudoir arts.
sexoteric (blog taking contributions from all and sundry; as a result some great links)

sexculptres (blog with focus on sculpture)

Sipho (photography)

xupacabras (photography of women and men)

Xtube (like You Tube, but…)

Yahoo category - Erotica

 

Journals re sex etc

Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality

Journal of the History of Sexuality (University of Texas)

 

People

Edward Ashbee (b. 1834)

Boccaccio (and The Decameron) (b. c1313)

Catherine the Great - Pornography room (picture below)

Pierre-François Hugues D’Hancarville (b. 1719) (see his illustrations on pancime)Pauline Réage (Anne Desclos) (b. 1907)

Earl of Rochester (b. 1647)

Lucy Taylor discusses her motivations as an author of erotic novels with a twist.

 

Music!

Vuluke Khall (Instrumental Version) - DJ Bootsie, on the album Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka - music for porn.

 

Films

Un chant d’ amour by Jean Genet

The Lost Secret of Catherine the Great by Peter Woditsch.

Pink Narcissus by James Bidgood (see pancime entry here)

 

Bookshops

Canada:

Nerman’s Books & Collectibles

USA

Arcanabooks

Good Sheppard Books (Erotica category)

Powells

 

Book search websites

Antiqbook

Abebooks

 

Online books

Olympia

Sacred sex texts (a collection of books, including illustrations from Pompeii by Famin)

 

Books

Bataille, Georges - Story of the Eye

Boccaccio, Giovanni The Decameron

DeJean, Joan. The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies and Tabloids in Early Modern France. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002

Li Yu, The Carnal Prayer Mat

Li Yu, A Tower for the Summer Heat, including the story, ‘House of Gathered Refinements’

Lucie-Smith, Edward - Sexuality in Western Art (article at art and popular culture)

Palumbo, Donald. Eros in the Mind’s Eye: Sexuality and the Fantastic in Art and Film; Greenwood Press, 1986

Peckham, Morse - Art and pornography; An experiment in explanation (1971) (Peckham letters here)

Thompson, William Irwin - The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light; Mythology, Sexuality & the Origins of Culture

 

 

Picture used on the cover of the dvd
The Lost Secret of Catherine the Great
by Peter Woditsch (see in ‘Films’ above).