„Mais que ce ne soit rien de commun, ni de vulgaire!“ Obszönität, Kennerschaft und die Ablehnung des Vulgären von Adriaan Beverland bis August von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg
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Abstract
When flamboyant authors such as the Dutch philologist Adriaan Beverland in the late 17th century or the „queer“ Duke August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg in the early 19th century addressed sexual matters, they did so in the context of rare Greek authors, foreign languages, antiquities, allusions and exquisite drawings or perfumes – and thus clearly set themselves apart from the „vulgar“. It is not that sex is vulgar for them, it is just the vulgar manner in which it is treated. To mark this, the term „vulgar distinction“ is introduced. In this sense, Beverland interpreted the story of Adam and Eve’s original sin in a pornographic way; August gave orders to collect old Roman phalloi and send them to him, as well as bitter, masculine scents.