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By J. Peakman

Strong Lewd Books describes the emergence of a brand new home-grown English pornography. throughout the exam of over 500 items of British erotica, this publication appears at intercourse as obvious in erotic tradition, faith and medication during the lengthy eighteenth-century, and gives a thorough new method of the research of sexuality.

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Publishing, printing and selling were interlinked and were not always separate lines of work, the same person sometimes being responsible for several parts or all of the operation. For example, Edmund Curll both published and sold erotic material. Trade publishers were in fact wholesalers, acting as agents through which other retailers could obtain copies. The publisher would often hire the printer and binder separately as books were mostly sold in sheets and bound prior to publication. Frequently, the printer remained unnamed unless he was also the publisher or seller; for example, John Nutt (who also published Swift’s Tale of A Tub) printed and sold The Account of the Seducing of Ann, the Daughter of Edward Ketelbey (1700); A.

73 Robert Darnton believes that French Enlightenment pornography such as Thérèse Philosophe was read mainly by a ‘champagne-and-oyster’ readership of the élite, but has pointed to cheap, widespread pornographic sheets read by the lower classes. Darnton states that it is ‘very likely’ that sex books were written by males for males everywhere in Europe, although he admits that little is known about the readership. 74 Goulemot’s comments that erotica could be found everywhere in France, ‘from the apartments of the highest nobility to the little room of a preacher’s servant’, indicates a readership which stretched from the upper to the lower classes.

Within the lower orders, the literacy rate was rising (about 75 per cent in London). 100 Cressy states: The expansion or improvement of education increases literacy, which in turn leads to a greater demand for books. The rising output of printed matter makes it possible for more people to own books, and may itself stimulate the spread of literacy. 101 However, arguments about the extent of literacy depend on the wide variety of definitions of literacy used by historians. The fact that a person could read is not 34 Mighty Lewd Books always taken as a sign of literacy, if that person cannot also write.

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