A Long Story Short
September / October, 2017
These three passages will give you a rough sense of erotica’s quality spectrumErotica’s CHECKERED PASTSEXRevisiting the form’s peaks and troughs throughout historyca. 1150 B.C.Egyptians create the Turin Erotic Papyrus, dubbed the “world’s first men’s mag,” long housed at Italy’s Museo Egizio.1748John Cleland publishes Fanny Hill, one of the earliest examples of a pornographic novel written in English.1819Merriam-Webster cites the earliest known use of the word erotica, derived from Eros, the Gre...
