Sex life in England / Iwan Bloch.

  • Bloch, Iwan, 1872-1922.
Date:
1934
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Sex life in England / Iwan Bloch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PORNOGRAPHIC LITERATURE I I I I I I I I ! I I ! !I I I I I II I I I I!I I I!I I 1 I I I I I I ! I I I I I I I I I I I I I ments—animating histories of tete-a-tetes—and wanton frolics—to which is added the fashionable chit chit and scandal of the month from the Pharaoh table to the fan warehouses. Some twenty-seven years later this journal came out again under the title of The Rambler's Mag- azine. This set up to be a fashionable emporium of polite literature, the fine arts, politics, theatrical excellencies, wit, humor, taste, gal- lantry and all the gay variety of supreme bon ton. This magazine con- tained many erotic features among which may be mentioned London's Hells Exposed, The Cuckold's Chronicle, Fashionable Gallantry, and an unfinished erotic novel, The Rambler, or the life, adventures, amours, intrigues and eccentricities of Gregory Griffin. The Rambler; or Fashionable Companion for April; being a Com- plete Register of Gallantry, came out between April, 1824, and Janu- ary, 1825, when it was stopped, because of its immorality. It was followed by The Original Rambler's Magazine or Annals of Gallantry; an amus- ing miscellany of fun, frolic, fashions and flash. Amatory tales, adven- tures, memoirs of the most celebrated women of pleasure, trials from crim. con. and seduction, bon ton, facetiae, epigrams, jeu d'esprit, etc. For the most part this sheet contained biographical articles, as Life, Amours, intrigues and professional career of Miss Chester, or Amours of Napoleon and Mrs. Billington, or Memoirs of Miss Singleton (with a portrait of this beauty of Arlington Street in the nude), etc. In addition there are numerous interesting descriptions of London broth- els. Many articles are signed J. M. (Jack Milford). The leisured, ram- bler was a very common and popular figure in London's life, apparently, to judge by the number of magazines named after him. Thus, from 1827 to 1829, there was a new London Rambler's Magazine which purported to supply a delicious banquet of amorous, bacchanalian, whimsical, humorous, theatrical and literary entertainment. The whole enterprise was to be gay and free, to make love and joy the choicest treasure and to ramble over scenes of pleasure. The publisher of this sheet was John (Jack) Milford, a person of high birth and classical education, who had served with distinction in the English navy under Hood and Nelson, but had subsequently fallen into straits as a Corne-