{"id":2102,"date":"2004-12-02T11:23:43","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T15:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/12\/02\/\/"},"modified":"2004-12-02T11:23:43","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T15:23:43","slug":"2102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/2102\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/wilmot.jpg\" alt=\"Sodom, The Quintessence of Debauchery\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2004\/11\/26\/news\/funny\/auction.reut\/\" rel=\"external\"><strong>17th Century Porn on the Block<\/strong><\/a><br \/><strong>&#8220;The world&#8217;s first known piece of printed pornography, described as the &#8216;quintessence of debauchery,&#8217; is expected to reach up to &pound;35,000 ($65,040) when it is auctioned next month. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Sodom,&#8217; penned in the mid-1670s, has been attributed to John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester and is described by auction house Sotheby&#8217;s as a &#8216;closet drama rather than for the stage&#8217; with pornography &#8216;in almost every line.&#8217; &#8216;We believe this is the first printed pornography in English literature, a unique copy of the quintessence of debauchery,&#8217; said Peter Beal, Sotheby&#8217;s book specialist. &#8216;It is one of the most notorious publications in literature and makes most pornography written 300 years later seem tame.&#8217; The book centers on the decision made by a lustful King to &#8216;set the nation free&#8217; by allowing &#8216;buggary&#8217; to be &#8216;used thro&#8217; all the land&#8217; and then details the dire consequences.&#8221;<em>~ CNN (US)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1596540990\/qid=1101986124\/sr=1-3\/ref=sr_1_3\/102-0359689-3047332?v=glance&amp;s=books\" rel=\"external\">Or you could get it at Amazon for  $13.57.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17th Century Porn on the Block&#8220;The world&#8217;s first known piece of printed pornography, described as the &#8216;quintessence of debauchery,&#8217; is expected to reach up to &pound;35,000 ($65,040) when it is auctioned next month. &#8216;Sodom,&#8217; penned in the mid-1670s, has been attributed to John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester and is described by auction house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}