Facts from history you didn’t know! 🤯 Quote from #KinkyHistory 📕: “It's no exaggeration to say that the emergence of p•rnography as a literary genre in this period changed the course of our s•xual history. We commonly underestimate just how much power pornography has had (and continues to have) in not only reflecting but shaping society, and pornographic writings were one of the primary influences over revolutionary passions in the French general public. Shocking erotic depictions of the French aristocracy in p•rnographic pamphlets, plays and more helped to generate widespread hatred and disdain for them. As perfectly summarised by academic Lynn Hunt, 'Politically motivated p•rnography helps to bring about the revolution by undermining the legitimacy of the ancient regime as a social and political system.'… Marie Antoinette was the most popular subject of these p•rnographic attacks. On a list of erotic pamphlets confiscated by Parisian police in 1790-1791, those featuring Marie Anto...