Does the Vatican have the worlds largest pornography collection?
Dear M.: I haven’t had a chance to check this out personally, M., having been detained with Grafenberg spot research. But having spoken with parties who know, I can tell you that if it’s a truly monster porn collection you want, you don’t need to leave the U.S.A. Years ago a couple researchers from the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, made an attempt to inspect the Vatican’s collections, but church officials refused to permit it. Subsequently, however, it was learned that the Vatican had arranged to have its holdings microfilmed during World War II, when it was feared Rome would be bombed. The film is now stored at St. Louis University in Missouri. The Kinsey folks looked through all the material and found a few mildly erotic art items, but virtually nothing since the Renaissance. From this they concluded that stories about the Vatican’s 100,000 books of porn are naught but a myth. Not everyone buys this, of course. The more conspiracy-minded among us argue that the Vatican wo
