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Patreon Dispatches from the Curiosity Shop 69: Behind the Notes and Between the Sheets: Subversive Songs & Victorian Erotica
Grab your fainting couches and clutch your pearls, because we’re about to indulge in some historical naughtiness! Listen along while we revel in the Dirty Blues of the 1930s, then hold on to your butts (or to someone else’s butt), because Victorian Erotica is all in when it comes to getting really, really weird with it.
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Curiosity Shop Show Notes:
Here are links to the sources and resources we used while researching this episode.
Links to research materials:
Haley: The Dirtiest Decade in Music?
- WAP (2020) (We all know this one. It needs no further explanation.)
- Nine Inch Nails: Closer (1994)
- Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz: Get Low (2002)
- Lil’ Kim: How Many Licks (2000)
- Dirty Blues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_blues
- How I was introduced: honest2betsy: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzKhRrWLqu4/?igsh=c2N2N21wbDRiOWp0
- Lucielle Bogan photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Lucille_Bogan.jpg
- Lucille Bogan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Bogan
- Lucille Bogan’s Dirty Revolution: https://thegumbo.net/blog/2020/9/7/lucille-bogans-dirty-revolution
- Shave ‘Em Dry (1935):
- B.D. Woman’s Blues (1935??):
- Harry Roy photo: https://images.app.goo.gl/UPdujJtVNcfWMcEp9
- My Girl’s Pussy (1931):
Natali: Victorian Erotica:
- Erotica through the ages: https://www.thebookseller.com/features/erotica-through-ages-338530
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_erotica
- 10 books that prove Victorians were kinky: https://listverse.com/2013/07/12/10-books-that-prove-the-victorians-were-kinky/
- History Mag: Clean Minds, Dirty Books https://www.historiamag.com/clean-minds-dirty-books/
- Public Domain Review Essay: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-secret-history-of-holywell-street-home-to-victorian-london-s-dirty-book-trade/
- Alex Cochrane (15 June 2015), “Lost London: a Victorian Street for Friggers and Radicals”, in Unofficial Britain[1. http://www.unofficialbritain.com/lost-london-a-victorian-street-for-friggers-and-radicals/)
- Dirty words:
https://1890swriters.blogspot.com/2013/08/dirty-words.html - Stanford News: Aesthetics of sexuality in Victorian novels
https://news.stanford.edu/2017/03/09/aesthetics-sexuality-victorian-novels/ - Daily Art Mag: The Victorians: An Unexpected World of Erotica and Pornography (18+). https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/victorian-erotica-pornography/
- Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese ONeill. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29467289-unmentionable?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=b1UY270pao&rank=1
Further Reading:
- The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous- originally published 1873, this is 1892 edition
- To Download: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30254
- To Read Online: https://archive.org/stream/theromanceoflust30254gut/30254-8.txt
- The Story of Victorian Erotica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx2lEkb_wVA&source_ve_path=MTc4NDI0
- Memoirs of Fanny Hill: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25305/25305-h/25305-h.htm
- My Secret Life : https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/my-secret-life-complete-volumes-1-11-ebook.html
- Sandra Bullock & Bettie White Get Low https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6o8X8XVspo
- A League of Their Own Series https://youtu.be/H8qMhtkB18k?si=pfozRN3zYwkrcBLc
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