The Pearl: Erotica from the Underground Magazine of Victorian England

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The Pearl (subtitled “Journal of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading”) appeared monthly between July 1879 and December 1880, and published novels, short stories, ballads, and poems of an erotic nature.

Notorious for their prudity, the Victorian erotic underground shows them as vastly different from their public image; beneath the façade of respectability and sexual repression there existed the strongest urge for sexual experimentation and enjoyment. First published in London in July 1879, it provided unrestrained erotica for every taste.