{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Frankly Curious","provider_url":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp","title":"The Erotica of Edouard-Henri Avril at Frankly Curious","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"R4DvEK4DSZ\"><a href=\"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2014\/05\/21\/the-erotica-of-edouard-henri-avril\/\">The Erotica of Edouard-Henri Avril<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2014\/05\/21\/the-erotica-of-edouard-henri-avril\/embed\/#?secret=R4DvEK4DSZ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;The Erotica of Edouard-Henri Avril&#8221; &#8212; Frankly Curious\" data-secret=\"R4DvEK4DSZ\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","description":"It's quite a day for birthdays. There are people like Alexander Pope (best known for not being Pope Alexander), stride pianist Fats Waller, and aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss. Google is celebrating fossil collector Mary Anning. But I'm taking a different path today&mdash;a very different path.  On this day in 1849, the great illustrator and painter Edouard-Henri Avril was born. (He used the pseudonym Paul Avril.) He is best known as a book illustrator, and more specifically, an erotic book illustrator. If you listen to conservatives, you would think that before 1967, sex was something men did to women who put up with it until it was over. But reading old biographies of people like Cervantes, you see that sex has been a varied and creative activity for a very long time.  Before I get to some of Avril's erotic masterpieces, I'm going to create a fold. I do this just because I don't want to upset anyone. I've mostly eliminated coarse language from the site. And while I think pictures of sex acts are perfectly charming and not at all akin to coarse language (which I've come to think of as lazy and crude), I will tip my hat to social norms.","thumbnail_url":"http:\/\/franklycurious.com\/media\/1\/20140521-avril31.jpg"}