List of Plates * Acknowledgements * PART I: THE TRAFFIC IN OBSCENITY * Introduction * An "Extensive Traffic": The Print Trade in Nineteenth-Century British Obscenity * PART II: HAREMS AND LONDON'S UNDERGROUND PRINT CULTURE * The Unruly Copies of Byron's Don Juan: Harems, Popular Print Culture, and The Age of Mechanical Reproduction * Harem Novels: The Lustful Turk to Moslem Erotism * PART III: SIR RICHARD BURTON, THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, AND ARAB SEX MANUALS * "Esoteric Pornography": Sir Richard Burton's Translation of the Arabian Nights * "A Race of Born Pederasts": Pederasty, The Perfumed Garden, and The Scented Garden * Collecting English Obscenity: Marriage-Love and Women Amongst the Arabs and Old Man Young Again * PART IV THE ENGLISH VICE AND TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY * The Prurient Gaze: The Flogged Slave Woman among British Abolitionists * Slavery Obscenity in the 1880s: The Pearl and The Cremorne * Slavery Obscenity at the Turn-of-the-Century: Dolly Morton to White Women Slaves * Whipping in the Twentieth Century: The Fugitive Image * PART V: JAPANSES EROTIC PRINTS AND OBSCENITY OF THE FIN-DE-SIECLE * The Traffic in Japanese Erotic Prints * Aubrey Beardsley's Libidinal Line: Japonisme, Art Nouveau, and Obscenity * Japanese Prostitution: Amorous Adventures of a Japanese Gentleman to Yoshiwara: The Nightless City * Coda: The Obscenity of the Real * Notes * References * Index List of Plates * Acknowledgements * PART I: THE TRAFFIC IN OBSCENITY * Introduction * An "Extensive Traffic": The Print Trade in Nineteenth-Century British Obscenity * PART II: HAREMS AND LONDON'S UNDERGROUND PRINT CULTURE * The Unruly Copies of Byron's Don Juan: Harems, Popular Print Culture, and The Age of Mechanical Reproduction * Harem Novels: The Lustful Turk to Moslem Erotism * PART III: SIR RICHARD BURTON, THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, AND ARAB SEX MANUALS * "Esoteric Pornography": Sir Richard Burton's Translation of the Arabian Nights * "A Race of Born Pederasts": Pederasty, The Perfumed Garden, and The Scented Garden * Collecting English Obscenity: Marriage-Love and Women Amongst the Arabs and Old Man Young Again * PART IV THE ENGLISH VICE AND TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY * The Prurient Gaze: The Flogged Slave Woman among British Abolitionists * Slavery Obscenity in the 1880s: The Pearl and The Cremorne * Slavery Obscenity at the Turn-of-the-Century: Dolly Morton to White Women Slaves * Whipping in the Twentieth Century: The Fugitive Image * PART V: JAPANSES EROTIC PRINTS AND OBSCENITY OF THE FIN-DE-SIECLE * The Traffic in Japanese Erotic Prints * Aubrey Beardsley's Libidinal Line: Japonisme, Art Nouveau, and Obscenity * Japanese Prostitution: Amorous Adventures of a Japanese Gentleman to Yoshiwara: The Nightless City * Coda: The Obscenity of the Real * Notes * References * Index.