[780] Eduard Fuchs, “The Erotic Element in Caricature,” p. 10 (Berlin, 1904), Cf. also Paul Leppin, “The Ludicrous in the Erotic,” published in Das Blaubuch, edited by Ilgenstein and Kalthoff, No 4, February 1, 1906, pp. 149-155.
[781] John Milton’s “Areopagitica.”
[782] An exception must be made of the work of Aretino, which in the Italian original is extremely difficult to understand. I, therefore, regard the masterly translation published by the Insel-Verlag as a justifiable undertaking.
[783] To those desirous of obtaining information regarding modern pornography, I can recommend, above all, the work of Ludwig Kemmer, based upon official material, “Die graphische Reklame der Prostitution,” Munich, 1906. Cf. also Heinrich Stümcke, “The Immoral Literature of the Present Day,” published in “Zwischen den Garben,” pp. 100-107 (Leipzig, 1899); same author, “Literary Sins and Affairs of the Heart,” pp. 30-34 (Berlin, 1894); Sebastian Brant, “Prostitution as displayed in the Great Art Exhibition of Berlin, 1895” (second edition, Berlin, 1895). Consult also the chapter concerning erotic literature and art in my “Recent Researches regarding the Marquis de Sade,” 1904 (pp. 237-272), and my “Sexual Life in England,” vol. iii., pp. 235-473.
[784] Cf. G. Hirth, “Ways to Love,” p. 352. This fact has been confirmed to me by Herr F. von Biedermann. When Frauenstädt once said to Schopenhauer that Goethe, when away from the Court, gladly made use of coarse expressions, Schopenhauer replied: “Yes, many contrasts can exist side by side in the same human being,” and he confirmed the fact from his own experience that Goethe was fond of gross phrases. Cf. Sohopenhauer’s “Gespräche und Selbstgespräche,” edited by E. Grisebach, p. 40 (Berlin, 1902). Certain “Secret Epigrams of Goethe” have recently been privately printed (forty copies only were issued). Many similar erotic poems of Goethe’s are still carefully preserved in Goethe-Archives, and withheld from publication.
[785] “Arthur Schopenhauer,” by E. O. Lindner, and “Memorabilia, Letters, and Posthumous Pieces,” edited by Julius Frauenstädt, p. 270 (Berlin, 1862).
[786] Schopenhauer’s “Gespräche und Selbstgespräche,” pp. 42, 53, 106.
[787] Rudolf von Gottschall, “The German National Literature of the Nineteenth Century,” vol. i., p. 255 (fifth edition, Breslau, 1881).
[788] Julius Pascin. Regarding this painter of the perverse, who has recently become more widely known, see Max Ludwig, “Erregungen und Beruhigungen,” published in Welt am Montag, December, 21, 1906.
[789] The name of Hokusai may well be added to this list. There exists a series of outline drawings by this great Japanese artist, in which the beauty of the draughtmanship is only equalled by the ingenuity with which sexual perversions are depicted.—Translator.