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"Utterly inexcusable" pudenda

When the nineteenth-century art critic John Ruskin came upon J.M.W. Turner’s erotic drawings, he was shocked.
“I always cherished the belief that Goodness and Wisdom and Purity and Truth went together with great talent, and Turner was my hero.” Then his world collapsed,

One day (I think it was in ‘57...

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Sex in History

/Turner and Ruskin

"Utterly inexcusable" pudenda

By Christina Voss

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