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Dr. James Graham going along the North Bridge in a High Wind, caricature portrait from 1785 by John Kay

Celestial heaven: the greatest sex bed ever

Dr James Graham was a sex therapist, an 18th century showman, a gentleman of the Enlightenment and an “emperor of quacks”. He was also the inventor of an extraordinary fertility sex aid: the Grand State Celestial Bed.

October 3, 2014 in Historical erotica, History, London.
The burning of books in Nazi Germany, 1933

The ‘Einstein of Sex’ and the Nazi burning of books

How a liberal German sex pioneer founded a notorious scientific sex institute and fell foul of the Nazis.

December 10, 2013 in Historical erotica, History.
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Escorting an old English lady through the red light district

…and the lessons I learnt in the process.

October 9, 2013 in Historical erotica, Travel.

Sex, death & absurdity: curiosities from the British Empire

Curated curiosities that glibly sidestep the complexity, diversity and controversy of the British Empire.

June 11, 2013 in Historical erotica, History.

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