In this bonus episode of Mental Health Rewritten, host Dominic Lawson takes listeners on a captivating journey through the history of pornography, exploring how desire has been depicted, suppressed, and preserved across centuries. From ancient Egyptian satire to the digital age’s pornographic explosion we uncover the cultural, technological, and political forces that shaped the evolution of explicit imagery.
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Diver, K. (2005, April 4). Archaeologist finds 'oldest porn statue'. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/apr/04/arts.germany
– News report on the discovery of 7,200-year-old erotic figurines in Germany, considered the oldest known depictions of a sexual scene theguardian.comtheguardian.com. -
Solly, M. (2022, April 28). Why Was Erotic Art So Popular in Ancient Pompeii? Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved from https://www.smithsonianmag.com
– Overview of erotic art in Pompeii and its 19th-century censorship, mentioning the secret museum in Naples and recent exhibition of those artifacts smithsonianmag.comsmithsonianmag.com.
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