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I may have found one of the first stroke stories. It's a novel that was published in 1906 in Vienna, Austria called "Josefine Mutzenbacher."

For those of you in the German-speaking world, you may have heard of it. I hadn't. According to Wikipedia: "The novel is famous in the German-speaking world, having been in print in both German and English for over 100 years and sold over 3 million copies, becoming an erotic bestseller."

It's the memoir of a prostitute, but mostly covers her life from the ages of 5 to 13 years old. The way it's written reminds me of "My Secret Life" which was an older stroke story published in 1888. Both novels were published anonymously.

Oh, the person they believe wrote it was an author and critic. He's most famous for writing … wait for it… "Bambi."

I may have found one of the first stroke stories. It's a novel that was published in 1906 in Vienna, Austria called "Josefine Mutzenbacher."

I have actually done quite a bit with this in the past, including doing a limited restoration of the 1976 film "Josefine Mutzenbacher - Wie sie wirklich war 1. Teil" (AKA: Sensational Janine).

For those that do not know, that was an early mainstream porn film, shot in Germany and with the director casting his own girlfriend (Patricia Rhomberg) in the title role because of her Austrian accent. And while "Sensational Janine" was a dubbed English version, they cut several minites out of the German movie for some reason. So I edited the two back together, so viewers could see the entire movie, along with the redacted scenes put back in place.

And yes, the original story was written by Felix Salten in 1906. Who in 1923 would become world famous for his book about a deer called "Bambi, a Life in the Woods".

I do have the original novel in a PDF, and could probably find or convert it to text. And even though it is almost 120 years old, this is something the webmaster would have to decide on. As the main character I want to say is 13 at the start, and features other characters as young as 9.

And there is a fair amount of other Victorian era pornographic literature out there.

Another is "Flossie: A Venus of Fifteen", by an anonymous author in 1897. In it a teenage girl seduces an older man. And it has been made into a porn movie two times. First in 1973 that was a typically poor production telling of the era. Then a much superior version filmed in Sweden in 1974 with much higher production values and starring Marie Forsa in the title role.

And the second actually was released into mainstream theaters in Europe. As is seen because some of the things I have collected for it include lobby cards.

Was the first stroke the doggy paddle or the front crawl? ;-)

AJ

Maybe the first was Giovanni Boccaccio's "Decameron" from the 14th Century written during the Black Death. Boccaccio is one of the 14th Century's triumvirate of great ­Italian writers, along with Dante and Petrarch. It also inspired Chaucer's "Canterburry Tales." So maybe it's not stroke, but what would you call 100 stories told by 10 storytellers over 10 days if not stroke? And according to the article, it is "terrifically rude."

Many of the most famous tales are anticlerical, amoral, antiauthoritarian – and sexually explicit. In one story, a saintly hermit seduces a teenage girl by telling her that to be a good Christian, she has to send the devil to hell, explaining that his erect penis is the devil, and her vagina is hell.

Wives are unfaithful and husbands are stupid. In the second story of the seventh day, Peronella, a Neapolitan bricklayer's wife, is having an affair with a young man named Giannello. One day, her husband comes back unexpectedly, so Giannello hides himself in a barrel – but, unfortunately, the husband announces he has sold the barrel for five ducats. Peronella immediately responds that she has sold it for seven, and the buyer is surveying it from within. Giannello leaps out and declares that the barrel needs cleaning before he will buy it. While the husband gets inside the barrel and scrubs it out, his wife leans her head over its opening to instruct him, while her lover, "in the manner of a wild and hot-blooded stallion mounting a Parthian mare", has sex with her from behind – and then orders her husband to carry the barrel round to his house.

The link to the article is: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sex-saint-according-14th-century-061500741.html