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A while ago I had the opportunity to interview Brian M. Watson, historian of obscenity and pornography.

One man's private collection of Victorian pornography is now an important historical source.

This is a revised and updated edition of the book, including more recent information, footnotes, a bibliography, page numbers (print edition) and more beautiful fonts! In a groundbreaking reappraisal of European history, award-winning historian Brian …

Review by Katelyn Smith In his first full-length book, Annals of Pornographie: How Porn Became Bad (2016), Brian Watson traces the long history of pornography in the West, reiterating throughout hi…

Under the scrutiny of the British legal system, no work was safe from being deemed obscene.