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Secret Victorian porn collection at Cambridge

http://www.dazereader.com/24001093.htm From earlier this year: Secrets of Cambridge 'porn' library revealed.

For decades generations of Cambridge undergraduates have fantasised about a secret stash of Victorian pornography in the university's library tower.

Many have tried to gain access to the chamber to uncover its illicit secrets.

However, university officials insist that the pornography collection doesn't exist and that the tower contains nothing racier than "distinctly restrained guides on the finer points of Victorian romantic etiquette" with titles like Flirting Made Easy and Courtship And Marriage.

Vanessa Lacey, the manager of the Cambridge University Library Tower Project, said: "The traditional student rumour is that the contents of the tower are pornographic.

"In fact we now know it to be a treasure trove for people who want to know more about Victorian society, and among the books are these late 19th and early 20th century lifestyle guides designed to teach young couples the art of courting. At the time they were acquired, they were not considered the sort of thing that serious students should be reading, so they were put away."

Well of course the overseers of a secret porn library are gonna claim it doesn't exist. Keep looking, sneaky undergrads, it's there somewhere.

 

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