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Parents: 1700s
Years: 1740 - 1745 - 1748 - 1749
Events and trends: Pompeii rediscovered (1748)
Births: Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) - Choderlos De Laclos (1741 - 1803) - Henry Fuseli (1741 - 1825) - Jean-Paul Marat (1743 - 1793) - Francisco de Goya (1746 - 1828)
Literature: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740) - Dom Bougre (1741) - Le Sopha (1742) - The Indiscreet Jewels (1748) - Denis Diderot - Thérèse Philosophe (1748)
When Europeans discovered the ruins of Pompeii in the mid-18th century they were forced to grapple with abundantly public images and objects commonplace in ancient Roman culture depicting sexual activities considered taboo to even discuss. Victorians systematically categorized the findings in “secret museums,” thereby setting the stage for the new genre of pornography. [Apr 2006]
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