Dr Helen Wickstead presents her research on handmade pornography that circulated in London in the '50s and '60s - a.k.a the Soho Bibles
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Doors: 7.30pm [talk starts promptly at 8pm]
Tickets: £4-£8, available via the link below
Please note that this event is restricted to over 18s only.
The Museum of Sex Objects is delighted to present a talk from Dr Helen Wickstead exploring untold histories of handmade pornography in post-war London. This is one of a series of talks exploring sexual cultures programmed by The Museum of Sex Objects to coincide with their month-long exhibition at The Horse Hospital this September.
Soho Typescripts - also known as Soho Bibles - were a distinctive type of handmade pornography associated with London's Soho in the 1950s and 1960s. Thousands were 'published', but only a proportion survive today. The production of a Soho Typescript began when a porn merchant commissioned a writer, or a writer sold their manuscript. These exchanges often took place in Soho's bohemian public houses and clubs, which mixed up London's class strata, bringing porn merchants and sex workers into contact with hard-up writers and artists. Dr Helen Wickstead's study of these rare and collectable books brings the streets of post-war Soho - and the characters who inhabited them - back to life.
Dr Helen Wickstead is the course director of MA Museum and Gallery Studies at Kingston School of Art.
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