When Science Fiction Was Written by Pornographers
Okay, the title is slightly misleading and there is still more than a little crossover between the genres, to whatever degree that one wishes to distinguish them (sci-fi is essentially the repressed version of the utopian porn so popular in the 17th and 18th Centuries). The above illustration is from 'Découverte Australe par un Homme Volant, ou Le Dédale Français' (Southern Discovery by a Flying Man, or The French Dedalus) , which is a book by the renowned pornographer, social thinker and enemy of De Sade, Restif de la Bretonne. Proof perhaps that ignorance and misunderstanding makes both science and sex far more charming.
