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-[[Image:Cardinal Armand de Rohan-Soubise.gif|thumb|200px|''[[Cardinal Armand de Rohan-Soubise]]'' by [[anonymous]]+[[Image:Therese Philosophe Original edition.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Thérèse Philosophe]]'' (1748) by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens]]
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-Anonymous [[satirical]] [[caricature]] of the Cardinal Armand de Rohan-Soubise (1717-1757); this engraving is a good example of "[[pornography]]" as a tool for political [[subversion]] during France's [[ancien régime]]. +
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-:''[[sexual humor]], [[Eugène le Poitevin]]'' 
-==Eugène le Poitevin's Les Diableries Erotiques== 
-In the history of [[world erotica]] I present you with Le Poitevin's [[diablerie]]s. 
-'''Eugène le Poitevin''' ([[1806]] - [[1870]]) was a French artist, author of ''[[Les Diableries Erotiques]]''.+'''Satirotica''' is the use of [[pornography]] as [[political satire]] used to [[subvert]] the [[establishment]].
 +==France on the eve of the French Revolution==
 +:''[[Fureurs utérines de Marie-Antoinette]], [[Le Godemiché Royale]]''
 +During the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], on the eve of the [[French Revolution]], many of the French [[free-thinker]]s began to exploit [[pornography]] as a medium of social criticism and [[satire]]. [[Libertine]] pornography was a subversive social commentary and often targeted the [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic Church]] and the monarchy. The market for the mass-produced, inexpensive [[pamphlet]]s and [[libelle]]s made the upper class worry. The stories and illustrations (sold in the galleries of the [[Palais Royal]], along with services of prostitutes) were often [[anti-clerical]] and [[anti-royal]]. In the period leading up to the [[French Revolution]], pornography was also used as political commentary; [[Marie Antoinette]] was often targeted with fantasies involving orgies, lesbian activities and the paternity of her children, and rumors circulated about the supposed sexual inadequacies of [[Louis XVI of France|Louis XVI]].
 +==England==
-He is an underrated figure in the history of [[French erotica]] and his engraving above from the aforementioned ''Les Diableries Erotiques'' is [[icon of erotic art]] #42.+:''[[John Wilkes]]''
-[[Diablerie]]s are an interesting genre and illustrates how -- before the "invention" of erotica and pornography -- [[body part]]s and the people possessing them were used for subversive purposes, here as a form of [[sexual humor|satirical pornography or pornographic satire]]. The genre goes back to [[Rabelais]], although his masterpiece ''[[Gargantua and Pantagruel]]'' was more [[emetic]] than [[erotic]].+John Wilkes, a leading figure in English Radicalism supposedly published "[[An Essay on Woman]]", accompanied by "[[Cunno Opt. Min.]]," "[[The Dying Lover to His Prick]]" and "[[The Veni Creator, or the Maid's Prayer]]."
 +== See also ==
 +:''[[sexual humor]]''
 +*[[Eugène le Poitevin]]'s ''[[Les Diableries Erotiques]]''
 +*[[Never mind the bollocks, here's Rabelais]]
 +*[[a history of derision]]
 +*[[toilet philosophy]]
 +*[[Anonymous satirical caricature of the Cardinal Armand de Rohan-Soubise]]
-Of course, artists such as Le Poitevin deserve a place in the [[history of derision]], a playful and benign derision that is turned toward ourselves, toward the very core of [[human nature]]. As such it is also a piece of [[toilet philosophy]].  
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-Remarkably, the writeup on a Poitevin not depicted here in my edition of ''[[Erotic Art of the Masters the 18th, 19th, 20th Centuries Art & Artists ]]'', author and editor Bradley Smith notes  
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-:"penises and vaginas fly through the air fly through the air like butterflies, are gathered in baskets and, personified, play games with adults and children."  
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-This quote echoes the following by Deleuze and Guattari,  
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-:"Flying [[anus]]es, speeding [[vagina]]s, there is no [[castration]]" (''[[A Thousand Plateaus]]'', p. 32). 
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-A similarly themed print is [[Francesco Parmigianino]]'s ''[[A Witch Riding on a Phallus]]''.  
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-See [[Encyclopedia of erotica]]. 
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Satirotica is the use of pornography as political satire used to subvert the establishment.

France on the eve of the French Revolution

Fureurs utérines de Marie-Antoinette, Le Godemiché Royale

During the Enlightenment, on the eve of the French Revolution, many of the French free-thinkers began to exploit pornography as a medium of social criticism and satire. Libertine pornography was a subversive social commentary and often targeted the Catholic Church and the monarchy. The market for the mass-produced, inexpensive pamphlets and libelles made the upper class worry. The stories and illustrations (sold in the galleries of the Palais Royal, along with services of prostitutes) were often anti-clerical and anti-royal. In the period leading up to the French Revolution, pornography was also used as political commentary; Marie Antoinette was often targeted with fantasies involving orgies, lesbian activities and the paternity of her children, and rumors circulated about the supposed sexual inadequacies of Louis XVI.

England

John Wilkes

John Wilkes, a leading figure in English Radicalism supposedly published "An Essay on Woman", accompanied by "Cunno Opt. Min.," "The Dying Lover to His Prick" and "The Veni Creator, or the Maid's Prayer."

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sexual humor





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