10 February 2012

Librarian porn

Excerpts from an article in the Paris Review (NSFW pix at link):
It was, in fact, a prudish French librarian in the early nineteenth century who coined the word pornography. So it comes as no surprise that the sexy librarian, a fixture of the pornographic imagination, is most at home in books. Each year, new titles are added to the librarian-porn bookshelf. This past season’s crop included additions like Hot for Librarian by Anastasia Carrera; Lucy the LibrarianDewey and His Decimal by John and Shauna Michaels; The Nympho Librarian and Other Stories by Chrissie Bentley and Jenny Swallows; A Librarian’s Desire by Ava Delaney...

Why did many of the best sex scenes in today’s librarian porn take place outside of a library? ... Long before the era of the public library, stories of sex among books were set in private collections, in secluded humanist studies. The protagonist of Antonio Vignali’s 1526 La Cazzaria (The Book of the Prick) examines a collection of raunchy books and manuscripts in a private study as he awaits the arrival of a lover....

Lucy’s very real encounter in the stacks is the modern library’s attempted rejoinder to the loneliness of life online. The physicality of the library space is presented here as a concrete alternative to the interminable virtualness of contemporary erotic imagination. It’s the last argument for the library’s continued relevance as a space and of the subversive potential of books...

4 comments:

  1. I think it's pretty safe to say that all sorts of females and pretty much every possible sort of location for sex have featured in porn.

    On a whim, I just tried googling 'Locomotive engineer sex' and 'architect porn' and "scuba diver tennis shoes sex goddess", which all led to thousands of hits. The last phrase turned up a link to something called 'trampling porn', which is apparently a form of BDSM.

    I love this blog for two reasons:

    1) Stan turns up some fascinating stuff.
    2) It's interesting to see what sort of stuff fascinates Stan.

    We're all such voyeurs!

    -Chuck

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    1. Somehow I had missed the "architect porn." Have you seen "stair porn" -

      http://www.stairporn.org/

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  2. That's just sick. I think some of those stairs might be underage.

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