Diablerie
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Diablerie is a genre of French satire, often by extreme exaggeration. Diablerie stems from diable, which is French for devil. The 1978 book Diableries : La Vie Quotidienne Chez Satan a la Fin du 19e Siecle documents certain dioramas within the genre. Poitevin is famous for his Les Diableries Erotiques.
Diableries illustrate how -- before the "invention" of erotica and pornography -- body parts and the people possessing them were used for subversive purposes, here as a form of satirical pornography or pornographic satire. The genre goes back to Rabelais, although his masterpiece Gargantua and Pantagruel was more emetic than erotic.
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