Poulton was a skillful English magazine and medical book illustrator, who won a scholarship at the age of 17 to the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where he was taught by renowned artist and teacher Henry Tonks. The British artist Tom Poulton (1897-1963) in particular was fearful of censorship and therefore kept all of his erotic work secret afraid that it would be confiscated and he would be arrested by the police. During these times, neither porn nor erotica were welcome in the mainstream cultural conversation. Erotic art, however, was more of a game between artist and subject matter, a playful challenge not just to capture an image but to depict a mood. Porn in the ‘40s, ‘50s, and ‘60s was about realistically depicting sex of different kinds, plain and simple. But it already started decades earlier A Playful Challenge Infamous is the state-directed censorship on, in particular low-budget horror and exploitation films in the 1980s, known under the colloquial term Video Nasty. The United Kingdom has an illustrious past when it comes to censorship on art.
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