Erotic literature and cinema

Desire set down in writing long circulated in manuscript, under the counter or under false imprints, and its history often runs through the courts. The Perfumed Garden, written in Tunis at the beginning of the fifteenth century, reviews what makes a man and a woman desirable; Justine appeared in 1791 under a false Dutch imprint; Tropic of Cancer, banned for twenty-seven years in the United States, brought more than sixty prosecutions against booksellers when it was published there in 1961. In cinema, Ecstasy was condemned by Pope Pius XI, and In the Realm of the Senses was developed in France to escape Japanese censorship. Women also give desire their own voice, from Delmira Agustini in Montevideo in 1913 to Hilda Hilst in São Paulo in 1982.

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• EssayThe Perfumed Gardenالروض العاطرCheikh Nefzaoui · 1410Tunis under the Hafsids, at the beginning of the fifteenth century, where a dignitary commissions a sheikh to write a book on what the legal treatises do not discuss.Literature
• NovelJustine, or the Misfortunes of VirtueJustine ou les Malheurs de la VertuMarquis de Sade · 1791A young girl determined to remain virtuous reaps nothing but fresh misfortunes from each good deed.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelVenus in FursVenus im PelzLeopold von Sacher-Masoch · 1870An account of voluntary servitude in a Carpathian spa town, where a man gets a woman to take complete power over him, in writing.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryLos cálices vacíosDelmira Agustini · 1913Montevideo in 1913, where a young woman gives desire a woman's voice, at the heart of modernismo.Literature
• NovelLady Chatterley's LoverD. H. Lawrence · 1928A crippled husband allows his wife to seek elsewhere the heir he cannot give her.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaEcstasyExtaseGustav Machatý · 1933A young woman in an unhappy marriage discovers desire with a young engineer.Cinema
• NovelTropic of CancerHenry Miller · 1934This book recounts the misery of an American in Paris without making a misfortune of it, and without restraint in its words.Literature
• CinemaWR: Mysteries of the OrganismW.R. – Мистерије организмаDušan Makavejev · 1971A 1971 collage that puts sex and politics in the same frame and dismisses both Cold War blocs alike.Cinema
• Feature filmTurkish DelightTurks fruitPaul Verhoeven · 1973Amsterdam at the end of the sixties, where the passion of a sculptor and a young woman is lived without any restraint.Cinema
• CinemaIn the Realm of the Senses愛のコリーダNagisa Oshima · 1976A film from 1976 based on a news item from 1936, shot in Japan and developed in France to escape censorship.Cinema
• NarrativeThe Obscene Madame DA obscena senhora DHilda Hilst · 1982A monologue narrative of a widow withdrawn under her staircase, torn between mystical quest and obscenity.Literature