Ethnological and cultural studies of the sex life in England
Subtitle: illustrated, as revealed in its erotic and obscene literature and art; with nine private cabinets of illustrations by the greatest English masters of erotic art
By: Iwan Bloch ; translated and edited by Richard Deniston
Contributors: Deniston, Richard
Publisher: Falstaff Press
Published: 1934
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 434
Subjects: Erotic literature; History; Erotic art; Sex in literature; Pornography; Sex; Prostitution; Homosexuality; Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Other titles: Sex life in England.
Notes: Issued in a limited edition of "only three thousand copies".

Published also without the illustrations.

Bibliography: p. 375-380.

Translation of Das Geschlechtsleben in England.
Table of contents: title: Book one; title: Ethnological and cultural studies of the sex life in England illustrated as revealed in its erotic and obscene literature : General character of English erotica and pornography; title: Rich erotic vocabulary of the English; title: Highly spiced titles of erotic books; title: "Droll stories" of the monks; title: Coarse obscenity in the Middle Ages: Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"; title: "The palace of pleasure": rare collection of 101 droll stories; title: The erotic age of Shakespeare; title: Shakespeare on prostitution and syphilis; title: Sex life of the foremost English Rake: the Earl of Rochester; title: the erotic works of the Earl of Rochester; title: The greatest obscene drama in English literature: "Sodom", by the Earl of Rochester. Discovered among Harleian Manuscripts of British Museum; title: Great erotic masters of England's age of debauchery; title: Famous erotic novelists of the eighteenth century; title: Contents of the greatest erotic poem in the English language: "The toast", by Dr. William King; title: The greatest erotic novel in English literature: "Fanny Hill, or the Memoirs of a woman of pleasure"; title: First English work on tribadism; title: "The pleasures of love"; title: Textbooks on the English art of love: the peculiar English mania for deflowering virgins; title: "New Atlantis", escapades of the English aristocracy; title: "Memoirs of a man of pleasure": the "masculine 'Fanny Hill'"; title: "The fruit shop": the most humorous English erotic classic; title: Love life of John Wilkes, the "Ugly Casanova": his notorious "Essay on woman", an obscene parody of Pope's "Essay on man"; title: George Alexander Stevens: "The adventures of a speculist"; title: "The pupil of pleasure": Samuel Johnson Pratt; title: "The mysteries of Venus or lessons of love"; title: Secret pornologic clubs in England; title: Sixteen famous erotic and obscene works: 1780-1860; title: Secret sex life of Lord Byron: "Lord Byron's " suppressed works; title: Edward Sellon: mad escapedes of the English Casanova: his obscene autobiographies; title: "The amatory experiences of a surgeon"; title: "My secret life": an encyclopaedia of fornication; title: "Raped on the railway, social studies of the century"; title: The "Ideal love" between two immortal English poets: Oscar Wilde and Lord Douglas; title: "Ulysses", the anatomy of humanity; title: epoch-making American court decision; title: "My life and loves" by Frank Harris; title: Greatest erotic autobiography in the world; title: his first completed manuscript on art and technique of love; title: "Lady Chatterley's lover"; title: supreme modern work ennobling sex passion; title: Famous works on flagellation; title: the racial English vice in the art of love; title: Erotic folk lore and song; title: English erotic and obscene magazines; title: contents of hundreds of periodicals; title: Ideal sex life in English utopias: Bernard de Mandeville's revolutionary sex systems; title: The greatest erotobibliomaniacs in England. Their fabulous erotic treasuries described.; title: Book two; title: Ethnological and cultural studies of the sex life in England as revealed in its erotic and obscene art :; title: Nature of erotic and obscene art; title: Anthropic survey of world erotic and obscene art; title: History of Aretino's "Figurae Veneris" in England; title: William Hogarth: Greatest erotic artist in the eighteenth century; title: Greatest erotic artist on flagellation: James Gillray; title: Thomas Rowlandson: Greatest of all artists in the depiction of eroticism in England; title: 107 erotic and obscene engravings by Rowlandson; title: Erotic art of the Cruikshank family; title: Erotic art of George Morland; title: Erotic art of Richard Newton; title: Erotic art in the nineteenth century; title: Nudity in art; title: Eroticism among the Pre-Raphaelites: Dante Gabriel Rossetti; title: Edward Burne-Jones; title: The erotic genius of Aubrey Beardsley; title: Spread of erotic and pornographic art; title: Bibliography.; title: Book three; title: A gallery of illustrations by the foremost geniuses of English art including facsimiles of the original love letters of Frank Harris, here printed for the first time : A private cabinet of the love letters of Frank Harris; title: A private cabinet of the erotic art of the Cruikshanks; title: A private cabinet of the erotic art of William Hogarth; title: A private cabinet of the erotic art of Thomas Rowlandson; title: A private cabinet of the erotic art of James Gillray; title: A private cabinet of the erotic art of William Blake; title: A private cabinet of the erotic art of Richard Newton; title: A private cabinet of the erotic art of Aubrey Beardsley; title: A private cabinet of the erotic art of famous English artists. Illustrating the sex life in England.