The Erotic Spirit
February, 2000
"I have no idea of the difference between sex, erotica and pornography," says Benedikt Taschen. And that's good. The enterprising publisher is building a Great Books list of erotic photos and images. He finds them, he collects them, he publishes them. He has the zeal of a monk in the Dark Ages and his tallow is burning bright. Whether full of contemporary underground fetish photos or post-Civil War era nudes, these manuscripts require no illumination. "I've never found anything ba...