The Erotic in Literature  

"But in the 19th century all this was changed. This was the age of Dr. Bowdler, of the Society of the Suppression of Vice, and of parallel attitudes in America. But it was also an age which saw a greater output of pornographic literature - mostly of a worthless nature - than had ever been known before. Only now it had to be published and bought clandestinely."

"They took the already translated works of Boccaccio, Brantome, Casanova, etc., and cut out everything except the sexual adventures. These items, along with a few cheap, gaudily illustrated magazines, were sold freely enough in American .."