American erotica
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North American erotica is erotica from the USA and Canada. It is closely linked to its censorship of obscenity history.
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19th century
- Anthony Comstock and the September Morn case, Thomas Eakins, Eadweard Muybridge perhaps sought prurience next to scientific inquiry
- 1601 (1880) - Mark Twain
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20th century
People
- Alfred Cheney Johnston (1885 – 1971), photographer known for his portraits of Ziegfeld Follies showgirls.
- Samuel Roth, (1893–1974), American publisher and writer. He was the plaintiff in Roth v. United States (1957), which was a key Supreme Court ruling on the censorship of obscenity in the United States.
- Irving Klaw, (1910 - 1966), American photographer and filmmaker, best-known for operating a mail-order business selling photographs and film of Bettie Page (often in bondage) from the 1940s to the 1960s
- Marilyn Monroe, (1926 – 1962), American actress, singer, model and pop icon.
- Earl Kemp, (born 1929), American publisher of science fiction and "sleazy" erotic paperbacks.
- Al Goldstein (1936 – 2013)
- Dian Hanson (born November 2, 1951)
Publishing houses
Publications
In a classic example of détournement, Earl Kemp published an illustrated edition of Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography (1970) for Greenleaf Publishing and subsequently served a one year prison sentence for doing so.
1920s
1950s
- First issue of Playboy
1960s
- Naked Came the Stranger (1969) by Penelope Ashe
1970s
Mona (1970) - Behind the Green Door (1972) - Deep Throat (1972) - The Devil in Miss Jones (1973) - Score (1973) The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976)
And then there is the anti-pornography documentary film Perversion for Profit (1965) which points out the natural link between new media and erotica:
- "Now, you might ask yourself, why this sudden concern? Pornography and sex deviation have always been with mankind. This is true. But now, consider another fact. Never in the history of the world have the merchants of obscenity, the teachers of unnatural sex acts, had available to them the modern facilities for disseminating this filth. High-speed presses, rapid transportation, mass distribution. All have combined to put the vilest obscenity within reach of every man, woman and child in the country." —George Putnam, narrator.
21st century
Related
Richard Kern - Eric Kroll - Russ Meyer - - Alex de Renzy - Ralph Ginzburg - Mark Rotenberg - Joe Sarno - Eric Stanton - John Willie
Bibliography
- SIN-A-RAMA: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties, 2004, Jay A. Gertzman, Adam Parfrey and Lydia Lunch
- Bookleggers and Smuthounds by Jay A. Gertzman
- Sex: The Revolution (2008), TV documentary
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