A Purveyor of Garbage? Charles Carrington and the Marketing of Sexual Science in Late-Victorian Britain

This article examines how Charles Carrington, best known as a late-Victorian publisher of expensive pornography, marketed sexual-science. The article highlights the complicated legal and social context surrounding sexual science in late Victorian Britain and Carrington's strategic manipulation of those complexities to expand his business through a case study of his marketing of two successive English editions of a French original that he titled Untrodden Fields of Anthropology.