Word: erotica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such an extensive mass of pornography for his Yorkshire home that he called the place Aphrodisiopolis. Queen Victoria's favorite poet and laureate, Tennyson himself, enjoyed rude limericks-those five-line exercises in lubricity that still enjoy a large oral circulation. Algernon Swinburne had a great taste for erotica ("Shall I tell our visitor about the man of Peru?"). Whistler's saucy Finette, who introduced the cancan to England, was clearly not his mother. The Queen herself comes out of Pearl's researches unscathed (save for a regal tendency, noted by Gladstone, to spike her claret with...
About gall wasps, Dr. Kinsey knows just about all there is to know. About sex, he probably knows more than any other man alive, and he has built up one of the greatest collections of erotica ever assembled. Yet he is an almost monotonously normal human being...
Haynes breaks down the collection of erotica into several classifications. In the fiction division, three levels exist. On the first is the Lawrence novel, Miller's endeavors rank in the second class, while on the third level are the so-called "drug-store novels...
Books on nudism like "On Going Naked" and "Adventures in Nakedness," and scholarly studies in erotica, like Eric Partridge's "Shakespeare's Bawdy" make up the remaining two categories of the second group described by Haynes...
According to Keyes D. Metcalf, Librarian of Harvard College, "Although the College has not actively sought to acquire a collection of erotica, such a collection has just grown. Part of it, some especially rare books, is kept in Houghton Library. But the books that we have now in Widener are kept in the Cage in order to limit circulation to serious scholars, and to prevent the loss of these books which undoubtedly would follow if they were left on the open shilves...