It Isn't Really Porn, But We're Putting It Online Anyway
Another myth dies:
For decades generations of Cambridge undergraduates have fantasised about a secret stash of Victorian pornography in the university's library tower.
Many have tried to gain access to the chamber to uncover its illicit secrets. So intrigued was Stephen Fry by the collection that he wrote about it in his first novel, The Liar….
But now it seems all their efforts have been in vain.
For all that is contained within "this magnificent erection", as Neville Chamberlain is said to have described the 1934 tower, are distinctly restrained guides on the finer points of Victorian romantic etiquette….
The university has made the disclosure because it is in the process of putting all the titles online.
Well, we'll always have the Vatican.
