[lbo-talk] Re: Theory of Porn

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Tue Feb 3 18:33:51 PST 2004


Michael Dawson -PSU mdawson at pdx.edu, Tue Feb 3 16:12:11 PST 2004


>>No, the claim was that porn didn't exist as a _genre_, but emerged
>>1500-1800. Lynn Hunt (and Ken) ddidn't argue that porn didn't exist
>>prior
<snip>
>What "genre" of printed material _did_ exist before 1500?

Take a close look at the examples from Encyclopedia Britannica:


>Pornography
>(from Encyclopedia Britannica online):
<snip>
>the salacious songs performed in ancient Greece at festivals
>honouring the god Dionysius.
<snip>
>Pompeii, where erotic paintings dating from the 1st century AD cover
>walls sacred to bacchanalian orgies.
<snip>
>Ovid's Ars amatoria (Art of Love)
<snip>
>the sexual license of monks and other clerics, along with their
>attendant displays of hypocrisy.

In pre-capitalist societies, the erotic and the sacred (e.g., honoring god), the erotic and the decorative, the erotic and the political (e.g., criticism of hypocrisy, criticism of moral reforms), etc. were not separated from each other. -- Yoshie

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