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Publications
First erotic periodical in U.K.
This emerged in 1773, under the title "The Covent Garden Magazine," Amorous
Repository, Calculated Solely
for the Entertainment of the Polite World. In the words of Hurwood, "This, inauspicious as it
may have seemed
at the time, the great granddaddy of a multi-million dollar business was born." Ten years later
London acquired
a new publication - "The Rambler's Magazine": Or, The Annals of Gallantry,
Glee, Pleasure, and the Bon Ton;
Calculated for the entertainment of the Polite World; and to furnish the Man of Pleasure
with a most delicious
banquet of Amorous, Bacchanalian, Whimsical, Humorous Theatrical, and Polite
Entertainment. As a principal
item readers were offered the histories of ladies "whom the attracing charms of gold can
conquer," and typical
story titles were The History and Adventure of a Bedstead, The Adventures of a Eunuch,
Memoirs of Lydia
Lovemore, and the Adventures of Kitty Pry. Open the letter.