Ebook: Pleasure bound: Victorian sex rebels and the new eroticism

Pleasures taken -- Erotic melancholia -- Erotic faith -- The seductress and the bluestocking -- Men together -- The grove of the evangelist -- Cannibals and other lovers of men -- Feasting with panthers -- Collectors and pornographers -- The science of sex -- Burton's exotica -- Cabinets of curiosity.;Describes two groups of iconoclastic bohemians, the Cannibal Club and the Aesthetes, who created a taboo-loving counterculture of sexual deviance and pleasure that ran below the surface of stuffy Victorian London.