Thomas Poulton's 20th century art [18+ PHOTOS]

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September 8, 2016 2:13 PM

Thomas Poulton created art that shows a different side to sex than the one the world was used to between 1940 and 1960.

Erotic drawings

Not much is known about the artist Thomas Leycester Poulton.

He was born on February 3, 1897 in the United Kingdom. He attended the Slade School of Fine Art on a scholarship. There, he was trained under surgeon and draughtsman Henry Tonks.

Tom served in the military during World War I briefly before he began a career in medical draughtsmanship.

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Poulton’s anatomically precise medical drawings were featured in The British Journal of Surgery between 1921 and 1926.

His illustrations were also featured on the covers of The Radio Times and Reader’s Digest. He married Diana, a lute player and lived the quiet life of a freelance illustrator.

Behind this life that was obvious to the public though, Thomas had a hobby he was passionate about - erotic art.

Thomas Poulton drew a collection of erotic artwork, created with soft pencil on lightweight paper. With his knowledge of human anatomy, Thomas skillfully depicted images of men and women getting in on in a series of imaginative positions.

Poulton’s drawings depict a wide range of sexual fantasies; straight sex, gay sex, masturbation, oral sex and threesomes.

He depicted sex on a boat, on a swing and in a car. He also drew sex in sailor hats, formal outfits and lingerie.

There are renderings of sexual activity cut short by the entry of an angry spouse who is being cheated on as well as that of couples getting it on while watching at porn.

At the time Poulton created these artwork, erotica was unaccepted and unwelcome in the public eye, so the drawings were kept secret.

His works were only exhibited in public for the first time in the 1990s.

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