Disturbingly erotic…or not?

I posted this a few months ago, but I'm having some trouble with spambots on a few of my posts, so I'm republishing with a slightly different permalink to see if that resolves the problem. Apologies to those who've already seen it! An art historian is claiming that Dürer’s work is deeply erotic, in…

Chorier’s Satyra Sotadica and the Beginnings of the Pornography of Pain

Rather than developing from native English discourses, the association of Catholicism with sexual flagellation in late seventeenth-century England is mainly a product of the same southern/Latin/Catholic culture that produced the lives of the saints. Most of the same ingredients as are to be found in English writings – political and/or religious pol…