Recs if you like Blue of Noon...

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

Transgressive, perverted, depraved, debased writings from before the Information Age ~1967.

At times disgusting, ecstatic, abhorrent, funny, erotic, evil. Occasionally, actually way less shocking than the reaction from the time of their initial publication suggested.

Seek content warnings. I haven’t read them all and many I regret having in my brain. But I think they’re all intriguing, maybe not all important but they offer us a different view of the past.

Suggestions welcome!

The French are well-known for their philosophical and off-kilter (to put it nicely) notions of sex. Do you want to like sex? Do you want it to feel repulsive? Do you want to examine it clinically? Or do you just want brain-rot? Do you like your smut good or gross? Come one, come all! The French have it all! (Includes inspired works from french philosophy also)