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Okay, okay, there’s biological evidence suggesting their forebears figured it out too, but our cultural understanding of sex in the western world is more steeped in the late 19th century than even us steampunks would care to admit. Sure, they were notoriously prude, but the Victorians were obsessed with sex. They just lied about it, constantly.

For the past six months, I’ve been working with several Victorian historians, professional sex workers, and sex-positive activists to assemble A Steampunk’s Guide to Sex . (Yes, unlike mainstream satires of the steampunk subculture , we’re rather open about stuff like this. And we appreciate sex. A lot.) During our research, we uncovered just how much the Victorian Age had impacted our modern attitudes about love and sexuality, for better and worse. So then, here are four Victorian kinks that existed during your great-grandparents’ time.

Strip clubs, and their attendant shiny brass poles with curvaceous women in various states of undress, seem quite modern, but in fact working women were “greasing the pole” throughout Victoria’s reign. They weren’t called strippers back then, but had many different names including “burlesque dancers,” “high steppers,” “ding-a-lings,” or simply “teases.” The first of these ladies made their money dancing in the late 1830s in British music halls, the grandparents of today’s strip joints and gentlemen’s clubs. These burlesque shows moved across the Atlantic and to the rest of Europe in the following decades, and it was France’s famous Folies Bergère club that brought the shiny brass pole to the stage for erotic dancing. Private performances, similar to today’s champagne rooms, were available in a variety of old west saloons, including the Alhambra in Dodge City where both Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson worked.

Pornographic movies are nearly as old as the moving picture itself. The first erotic film was the 7-minute 1899 film Le Coucher de la Mariee , directed by Albert Kirchner (under the name “Léar”). It was he who brought the world its first porn star, Louise Willy (this was probably the beginning of silly porn names), who starred in a number of penny-arcade short erotic films. Victorian men and sometimes women would pack cellars of bars and even tents to watch all sorts of sexual exploits on film or through private stereoscopes viewing for a penny. These stereoscopes, also called “penny-poppers” were similar to contemporary quarter-fed peep-shows.

Lack of AA batteries didn’t stop our inventive and horny great-grandparents from patenting no less than 23 fully mechanical dildos in the 19th century. Most of these were steam-powered and some required a full boiler to get the fake phallus to hum. Others required a rigorous cranking of internal dynamos to get the desired effect. All were patented as medical devices designed to relieve “female hysteria.” It is less clear, however, what the medical reasons were for Dr. Sumpter’s Harnessed Extension (though some have argued it was for soldiers who had their genitals damaged in the Civil War). But there are reports of women using strap-on dildos on women and men for explicitly erotic encounters in various pornographic memoirs pre-dating the U.S. Civil War.

BDSM has been around for centuries before Queen Victoria was born, but no examination of Victorian kink would be complete without at least mentioning the “British taste.” It wasn’t that Victorians were the first to write about or practice all forms of sexual sado/masochism; it was just that they took to it so enthusiastically and brought their own particular flair to it. Today’s BDSM scene has been shaped by these Victorian influences far more than it had been by the Marquis DeSade and Leopold Sacher-Masoch (who gave us the terms sadism and masochism). Elaborate dungeons, leather catsuits, naughty school girls, birch canes, pony-play, boot worship, and so on can be found in hundreds of photographs, films, and books of the Victorians. Theresa Berkley was one famous Victorian dominatrix who not only invented the Berkley Horse, a device for flagellation which can be found in any modern well-stocked dungeon, but ran a twenty-four hour dungeon that could satisfy up to a fifty patrons at a time. She, like many others, became minor celebrities in England, France, and to a lesser degree in America. The first manuals on bondage and whip types were produced in the 19th century to facilitate the BDSM underground.

The history of Victorian sexuality is filled with controversy because of its very nature, and there are dozens of books published every year on the topic. It seems as much as our Victorian great-grandparents shied away from talking about “the deed,” we can’t get enough of poking around their boudoirs. The truth is, when the gaslights were lowered, no one really knows exactly what went on in the brothels and the bedrooms and under all of those yards of lace. Our only sources are the memoirs of perverts, the letters of passions between lovers, staged pornographic photos and films, and volumes of pornographic tales. All we can know for sure is that they loved love-making in all of its forms – even if they didn’t like to talk about it in front of company.

Professor Calamity is a Queens-based researcher, activist, and bunco artist who works with Combustion Books , is one of the authors of Catastrophone Orchestra , and speaks regularly about the Victorian underworld.

Margaret Killjoy is a nomadic author, editor, anarchist, and activist. He is the founder and current editor of SteamPunk Magazine as well as the author of A Steampunk’s Guide to the Apocalypse , the interactive fiction book What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower , and is a co-editor of We Are Many . He blogs at Birds Before the Storm .
You just reminded me I still haven’t seen the film Hysteria .
“pornographic memoirs pre-dating the U.S. Civil War.”
That sounds like an anthology waiting to happen.
Seriously? People still need to be told this? This hat is nearly as old as that fucking machine.
Well good for you on the book! Too bad it’s a bit too late here, as I had to quit the local Steampunk group because of their slut-shaming. It was awful.
I found a random book, quite cheaply, that I find rather fascinating.
Dessous; Lingerie as Erotic Weapon. Photography from when camera’s where new to modern ads. The modern bits are rather cringe inducing, but the old..sexy spinal curve corset lady, pigmy working girls, flapper doms, the ones with the toilet…Ahem.
The Maines book contains some serious inaccuracies and has been far too uncritically received in general. See
http://www.lesleyahall.net/factoids.htm#hysteria and
http://www.lesleyahall.net/Maines99.htm for details.
I chanced upon a paperback copy of “The Pearl” when I was 14. The gruesomeness of all the scenes where the woman was new at the game, even when there was no kink factor in sight, scared me out of a year’s growth. It wouldn’t have helped if I’d waited till I was 21 either. When I turned out to be asexual, that was a bit of a relief, but I still hate to see innocent people get hurt during a supposedly normal/vanilla act.
I hope that the one whose name is in use, or friends thereof, can get that local group to knock off the slut-shaming. That will do who-knows-how-many-people a favor.
I’d just like to mention that The Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts and Humanities, here in Victorian Cape May NJ, sometimes presents a lecture/powerpoint talk called VICTORIAN VICE about this very subject. Masoch, Venus in Furs, rogering chairs, etc. are all included.
Why do so-called “radicals” love to romanticize bourgeoisie decadence?

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