Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality by Judith Giesberg

Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality

Judith Giesberg

152 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playing cards, and stereographs. A perfect storm of antebellum legal, technological, and commercial develo...

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