Thomas takes us through the world of 17th and 18th century smut...which curiously features a wealth of lesbian pornography.

Sources:

The School of Venus, or the Ladies Delight, Reduced into Rules of Practice (Orig. L'Ecole des filles, ou la Philosophie des dames, attributed to Michel Millot and Jean L'Ange 1650.)

The School of Women (Orig. Aloisiae Sigae Toletanae Satyra sotadica de arcanis Amoris et Veneris, Nichlas Chorier, 1660).

Aristotle, pseud. Aristotle's Masterpiece, Secrets of generation displayed in all the parts thereof. London: Printed for J. How, 1684. (1788 reprint, New York City: United Company of Flying Stationers).

Literature on the subject:

Mudge, Bradford K., ed. When flesh becomes word: an anthology of early eighteenth-century libertine literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Peakman, Julie. Mighty lewd books: the development of pornography in eighteenth-century England. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Toulalan, Sarah. Imagining sex. Pornography and bodies in seventeenth-century England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.