Pleasure bound : Victorian sex rebels and the new eroticism /
Lutz, Deborah.
New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company,
c2011.
Describes two groups of iconoclastic bohemians, the Cannibal Club and the Aesthetes, who created a taboo-loving counterculture of sexual deviance and pleasure that ran below the surface of stuffy Victorian London.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pleasures taken -- Erotic melancholia -- Erotic faith -- The seductress and the bluestocking -- Men together -- The grove of the evangelist -- Cannibals and other lovers of men -- Feasting with panthers -- Collectors and pornographers -- The science of sex -- Burton's exotica -- Cabinets of curiosity.
Describes two groups of iconoclastic bohemians, the Cannibal Club and the Aesthetes, who created a taboo-loving counterculture of sexual deviance and pleasure that ran below the surface of stuffy Victorian London.
Sex customs
Artists