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"The Phœnix of Sodom; or, the Vere Street Coterie" by Robert Holloway is a provocative treatise written in the early 19th century. This book serves as an exposé on the notorious Vere Street Coterie, a group implicated in illicit homosexual activities in London, drawing disturbing parallels with the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. The author digs into the practices of this group, detailing the lives of the individuals involved and the societal implications of their actions. The narrative centers around James Cook, who recounts his experiences as the proprietor of a brothel frequented by men engaged in homosexual acts.

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'Venus in Furs' describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dunajew. This is a passionate and powerful portrayal of one man's struggle to enlighten and instruct himself and others in the realm of desire. Published in 1870, the novel gained notoriety and a degree of immortality for its author when the word "masochism" - derived from his name - entered the vocabulary of psychiatry. This remains a classic literary statement on sexual submission and control

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" My Life and Loves" is the highly charged and erotic autobiography of the Irish writer and editor Frank Harris (1856-1931). The book provoked hostile criticism due to the straightforward and frank details of Harris's sexual adventures, which began in his childhood. A biographer of Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare, Harris faced the U.S. government and the postal service over the content of his publications—battles that are recounted in "My Life and Loves," along with Harris's direct and colorful descriptions of his sexual adventures with consenting debutantes of the Victorian era.

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Tells the story of a man who takes revenge on a woman who rejected him. Most of this story takes place in a room in his house called 'The Snuggery', which the narrator "Jack" converts into a kind of erotic torture chamber equipped with beds to which women can be strapped and held helpless and which is soundproofed to make their screams unheard. Other equipment includes cords and pulleys, flagellation implements and a mechanical "Chair of Treachery" to which helpless females are lured to be restrained in.

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The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the storming of the Bastille. Sade wrote that he "wept tears of blood" over the manuscript's loss. Many consider this to be Sade crowing acheivment.

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The narrative of "Justine" explores themes of morality, religion, and the corruption of society. Justine's experiences serve as a critique of the hypocrisy and immorality that Sade saw in the institutions of his time, including religion, politics, and social hierarchy. Due to its explicit and controversial content, "Justine" faced significant censorship and condemnation during Sade's lifetime.

Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies by Pierre de Bourdeille

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A collection of anecdotes about the amorous lives of the sixteenth-century French nobility, by an author writing frankly about the licentious world of the age he knew so well. Although the content is often of the most scandalous nature they give a wonderfully vivid picture of the author's times, are of high literary merit and of great historical interest.

Three Daughters of their Mother by Pierre Louys

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"Three Daughters of their Mother" is described by Susan Sontag, in her essay The Pornographic Imagination, as being one of the very few works of erotica to deserve true literary status; and indeed this remarkable book was once cited by William Burroughs, in a letter to Jack Kerouac, as being amongst his ten all-time favourite novels.

Three Daughters of their Mother is, surely, the apotheosis of the erotic novel, an archangelic hymn to sodomy and polymorphic excess which absolutely refuses to baulk at any perversion imaginable, and tries to imagine them all. It remains Pierre Louys most intense, claustrophobic work; a study of sexual obsession and monomania unsurpassed in its depictions of carnal excess, unbridled lust and limitless perversity.

Two Flappers in Paris by A. Cantab

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While crossing the Channel in the early 1900s a young diplomat meets up with a young lady, Evelyn, on board ship and forms such a friendship with her that not only does she begin to call him Uncle Jack but she agrees to meet him from her finishing school once they arrive in Paris.

Being well versed in the sexual world of Paris, the diplomat visits his regular bordello where he consults with Madame R, the owner. With the aid of his favourite girl at the house, Rose, the diplomat arranges a plan to introduce his new-found young lady friend to the pleasures that the house can offer.

My Grandmother's Tale by anonymous

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The Victorian erotic classic is reintroduced for a 21st century audience. Including a new introduction by Sarah Louise Young.

Sex in high society, male-female couplings, female-female couplings and wild orgies galore. "The Pearl: My Grandmother's Tale or May's Account of Her Introduction to the Art of Love" is erotic literature at its best.

Fanny Hill by John Cleland

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One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history. The classic novel of a young girl's exploration of physical pleasures.

Young Fanny Hill is tricked into a life of prostitution, but she quickly learns the power of her own body as she learns the ways of physical passion. She soon escapes her fate for the loving arms of a wealthy young man, but misadventure and fate conspire to keep her from domestic bliss. Instead, Fanny discovers that sex need not be just for love; that it can be had for pleasure. She then sets out to explore those pleasures in as wide a variety as she can. Fanny's journey through the realms of sexual pleasure is a literary tour-de-force

The Autobiography Of A Flea, by anonymous



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This book runs in the same vein as Fanny Hill, but is a lot more explicit. Arabella is the story of a proud and strong-willed woman of the Victorian era. In her own words she describes the erotic escapades and kinky amours that took place behind the closed doors of 1890s society.

Teleny or the Reverse of the Medal

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The homoerotic novel Teleny is an important antithesis to the prudish idealism of the neo-classic and neo-romantic lyric love poetry of the fin du siecle. It is a work of unmasking the cynical double moral standards of the Victorian era: The love of Camille and Teleny is shattered by social reprisals.

The book was published in 1893 in 200 copies by Leonard Smithers who praised it as being "the most powerful and cleverly written erotic romance which has appeared in the English language"

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A Night in a Moorish Harem is an erotic novella published in 1896 under the pseudonym "Lord George Herbert". It is written in the first person in the persona of a shipwrecked British sailor, recounting the night he spent in a Moroccan harem with nine concubines of different nationalities.

‘A Night in a Moorish Harem.’ It tells of a night spent by a shipwrecked British sailor who is secreted away in a Moroccan harem by nine concubines of different nationalities; Spanish, Persian, Italian etc. Each recounts her tale of previous adventures which, naturally enough, involves much sexual gratification. Lord George Herbert obviously then has to perform with each in turn. Although successfully prosecuted in 1923, with the jailing of two New York booksellers, by 1930 further prosecutions had failed and society was beginning to have a more mainstream view of erotic works as literature.

The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight, by Muhammad al-Nafzawi

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An ancient sex manual and work of erotic literature, written in late 15th century A.D. Translated by Sir Richard Burton, it is a monument to his Arabic learning and his encyclopedic knowledge of Eastern life.

According to the introduction of Colville's English translation, Muḥammad al-Nafzawi probably wrote The Perfumed Garden sometime during the twelfth century. Sheikh Nefzawi was born among the Berber Nefzawa tribe in the south of present-day Tunisia. He compiled it at the request of the Hafsid ruler of Tunis, Abū Fāris ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Mutawakkil.

The Pearl, A Magazine of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading was a pornographic monthly magazine issued for 18 months in London by William Lazenby from July 1879 to December 1880, with two Christmas supplements;

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it was closed down by the authorities for publishing obscene literature. Lazenby followed it with The Oyster (1883) and The Boudoir. The general format of the magazine was to publish three serial erotic tales simultaneously, devoted to sex in high society, incest and flagellation, respectively, interspersed with obscene parodies, poems and limericks.

The format of the magazine can be seen as a parody of contemporary magazines aimed at the family market. The Pearl contains "My Grandmother's Tale", the first pornographic story based on slavery in the American South.

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The duke was such a renowned womanizer that it is said Choderlos de Laclos based the character Valmont in Les Liaisons dangereuses on him.

He was also the lover of the famous courtesan and novelist Claudine Guérin de Tencin, and of Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Duchess of Berry, elder daughter of Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, "Regent of France", a very ambitious and powerful young widow who was infamous at the time for her alleged large sexual appetite. He then had an affair with Berry's younger sister Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans, and with her first cousin Louise Anne de Bourbon. Another mistress was Marie Sophie de Courcillon, wife of Charles François d'Albert d'Ailly, Duke of Picquigny and later Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Duke of Rohan-Rohan.

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Gynecocracy is an influential masterpiece of Victorian clandestine erotica, first published in 1893. It is significant for the novelty of its focus on the subjection of a young man to women through enforced cross-dressing. The authorship of Gynecocracy is attributed to an English lawyer, Stanislas Matthew de Rhodes (1857-1932), who is also credited with writing The Yellow Room (1891)

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The book that was banned for more than 100 years.

My Secret Life was first published between 1888-1894 in 11 volumes in Amsterdam by the Belgian-born bookseller/publisher Auguste Brancart (1851 - 1894). For the next hundred years, it remained banned and considered obscene and pornographic.

Sexologist Vern L. Bullough (1928 – 2006) described the book as "one of the most valuable sources of information on sexual attitudes and practices in the last part of the nineteenth century in the English speaking world", with over 4,000 pages in the original edition.

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 Morally dubious. Controversial. Scandalous. Highly offensive.These words described "Laura Middleton; her Brother and her Lover" when it was first published in 1890. The story is probably even more offensive to modern day readers.The author of this slim piece of Victorian pornography is unknown.



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The Kama Sutra stands uniquely as a work of psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, and sexology. It has been a celebrated classic of Indian literature for 1,700 years and a window for the West into the culture and mysticism of the East.

From the Introduction The Kamasutra is the most famous guide to sensual pleasure ever written—indeed, one of the most notorious books in the history of the world. Its acute insights into human nature are still relevant today.

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Venus in India is an erotic novel by 'Charles Devereaux', first published in 1889. It claims to be the autobiography of a British Army officer, and although a third volume is mentioned in the text, this was never published (this book contains two volumes). It follows the saucy exploits of the Army officer and his adventures with a few ladies.

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In devoting a volume to the romance and folk-lore of Virginity, it may not be inappropriate first to examine the psychology of a word and a quality as magical as they are misused.

What is virginity? Is it the possession intact of that delicate piece of membrane, the poets’ ‘flos virginitatis,’ or is it some indescribable, intangible attribute in no sense dependent on physical perfection? Does it imply abstention from and ignorance of all sexual pleasures, or must it be a chastity which falls little short of stupid, even criminal, innocence?