The first proper camera was invented in 1839, called the Daguerreotype, and in 1888 the first handheld camera was created, the Kodak. Within the first few years of the invention of the camera, we already see evidence of its use to create erotic and pornographic images, with depictions of straight and queer relations, as well as depictions of kink including impact play, femdom, threesomes and group sex.
Female Nude, Daguerreotype in case, 1850’s
19th Century, Bijoux 118 Catalog Card, Gelatin Silver Print
Woman penetrating a woman with a dildo, 1880-1885
Two men performing mutual masturbation, 1880
Group sexual encounter between a man and two women dressed in clerical costumes, 1883-1885
Clothed man kneeling behind a nude woman, 1884-1886, France
Woman sitting on a man to engage in coitus, 1895-1898
Man performing anal rimming on another man, 1885, France
Woman spanking another woman with birch rod, 1895-1898
Woman holding a birch rod over a kneeling nude man, 1890-1900, France
Erotic photography around 1910