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About the Author
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Steven Heller is the
cofounder and the cochair of the MFA Designer as
Author
program at the School of Visual Arts. He writes the Visuals
column
for the New York Times Book
Review and the Graphic
Content
blog for T-Style; is editor
of AIGA
Voice; and is a contributor to Design
Observer. He is the author, coauthor, and/or editor of more
than 120 books on design and popular culture, including the forthcoming
New Ornamental Type (Thames
and Hudson). More information can be found at his homepage.
See
all
Daily Heller posts here.
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Victorian Sexploits
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by Steven Heller
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The Victorians were known for their buttoned up public behavior and odd private proclivities. I recently found a Victorian postcard worth sharing that is positively surreal in the oddness of its proclivitiness. A man and woman (above) are apparently playing a game of kiss n' shoe, whereby the woman upon getting kissed drops a mena's shoe to the ground. Although the significance of the act and the rules of the sport elude me, the card is a vivid example of love and leather Victorian-style.
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