While most people think that sexting is a new phenomenon, history tells a very different story. Recently, a 17th century erotic portrait was put up for sale of one of Charles II’s long time mistress washing a string of sausages with her tits out! Its small, paper-sheet size shows that it was intended for an “intimate purpose in the court circle,” according to the Guardian. Although this seems shocking for the time, sending explicit photos and messages has actually been around for centuries.
Former president Warren Harding wrote to his mistress about “Jerry,” which was code name for his cock!—“if he [Jerry, his cock] could have but one wish, it would be to be held in your darling embrace and be thrilled by your pink lips that convey the surpassing rapture of human touch and the unspeakable joy of love’s surpassing embrace.” And James Joyce was famous for writing his wife filthy letters: “My sweet naughty little fuckbird,” he writes, “Buy whorish drawers, love, and be sure you sprinkle the legs of them with some nice scent and also discolour them just a little behind.” By the time of WWII, ladies were sending their men off with homemade pin-ups to keep them company. And by the time of polaroid film, the ladies were sending their soldiers off with “private pornographic photographs.” It just goes to show that desire never changes; it’s just the medium of expressing it that does.
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Here’s more about the history of “sexting!”