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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 368253, member: 56"]There was plenty of pornography in the 18th C and down through history. Some of the frescoes from Pompeii are very graphic.</p><p><br /></p><p>There's a story of a man who had a snuff box set on top with an agate. He would show it to his friends by the light of a fire, and the agate would slowly disappear to reveal an enameled sex scene. The secret was that the agate was very thinly sliced and a layer of fat was sandwiched between it and the image. The heat from the fire caused the fat to melt and reveal the picture.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 368253, member: 56"]There was plenty of pornography in the 18th C and down through history. Some of the frescoes from Pompeii are very graphic. There's a story of a man who had a snuff box set on top with an agate. He would show it to his friends by the light of a fire, and the agate would slowly disappear to reveal an enameled sex scene. The secret was that the agate was very thinly sliced and a layer of fat was sandwiched between it and the image. The heat from the fire caused the fat to melt and reveal the picture.[/QUOTE]
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