On a Hunt for 19th-Century Erotica, We Found Lesbians

If it wasn’t clear from the headline, this essay explores sexually explicit themes, and includes images that may not be fit for workplace viewing. Alexandra Vasti’s research anchors the first part of the piece, before passing the perspective to Raisa Rexer.

On a Hunt for 19th-Century Erotica, We Found Lesbians

Related:

[Google Books] Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

The Invention of Heterosexuality

Invention of Heterosexuality | Queer History – Rogan Shannon

Mind-blowing: the French State is relocating political repression

A historical fact that the French should remember better: the Police nationale, which is subordinate nowadays to Gérald Darmanin, a church mouse who on occasion, gets oral sex from citizens against reward, was founded on August 14, 1941. Here on January 21, 1942, French police officers pledged allegiance in Paris to the head of the fascist State, Philippe Pétain (Roger-Viollet)

the DGSI subcontracts to London

read a brief evocation on April 18, found it difficult to believe, until a first French article [English] in the evening, in Libération.

Mind-blowing: the French State is relocating political repression