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The Allusionist — 116. My Dad Excavated A Porno
Scout ratingSCOUT· 27%31m·2020-06-03·Arts Culture

116. My Dad Excavated A Porno

The Allusionist

The word ‘pornography’ arrived in English in the 1840s so upper class male archaeologists could talk about the sexual art they found in Pompeii without anyone who wasn’t an upper class male archaeologist knowing about it. Even though, at the same time, Victorian England was awash with what we’d now term pornography.…

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