In Praise of the Backside (2002) by Hans-Jürgen Döpp is a book on the buttocks in art and literature.
It is a good pornosophical work by this oldest living erotomane. Highlights include:
- Vintage photograph of a nude woman and vegetables[1]
- Banquet of Chestnuts of the Borgia
- The story of Thryallis and Myrrhina in the matter of buttocks
- Cul de Paris Caricature on bustles[2]. Print c. 1700, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, see bustle. Here[3] is another amusing one, from Punch.
- Mozart’s scatology
- Rousseau “haunted dark alleys and hidden retreats”
- Lou Andreas-Salomé in Imago[4], anal stage:
- “it is characteristic for animals that anal and genital orientations go together completely,”
- “it is no accident that the genital apparatus remains so closely connected to the anus (and in woman is merely rented from it).”
- The Despisers of the Body by Nietzsche
- Love-hate for the body colors the whole of modern culture. The body is scorned and rejected as something inferior, enslaved, and at the same time is desired as forbidden, reified, estranged. Only culture treats the body as a thing that can be owned, only in culture has it been distinguished from mind, the quintessence of power and command, as the object, the dead thing, the corpus. In humanity’s self-abasement to the corpus nature takes its revenge for the debasement of the human being to an object of power, to raw material. —”Dialectic of Enlightenment”
- Francesco Hayez, Venere che scherza con due colombe (Ritratto della ballerina Carlotta Chabert)[5]
- Gastrosophy
- “Against the Blazoners of Body Parts” from Gilles Corrozet’s. Domestic Blazons (Paris: Giles Corrozet, 1539).
- “Our arses shall be the symbol of our peacemaking! ” Mozart’s Letters