ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the late seventeenth-century pornographic fiction L'Academie des dames. L'Academie des dames, the first French translation, adaptation, and abridgement of Nicolas Chorier's Satyra sotadica- possibly carried out, as James Grantham Turner notes, by "Jean Nicolas junior, son of the Grenoble publisher who sold Chorier's Satyra to local notables". The text's treatment of male homosex seems to resemble its treatment of nonprocreative heterosex. Tullie and Octavie explicitly condemn male-male sex, using terms such as 'madness', 'evil', 'plague', 'crime', 'vice', 'stain', and 'disgraceful' or 'infamous'. Despite Tullie and Octavie's avowed hostility to male homosex, Chorier-Nicolas devotes an abundance of textual space to pro-homo arguments. The vast majority of sex between women occurs between Tullie and Octavie, yet they also enthusiastically pursue sex with men.
