La Bella Unión was an eighteenth-century Spanish society of fans of eroticism and presumably Pornography.
It was founded by the Count of Clavijo to the proclamation of "There is nothing better than to fornicate". It organized nocturnal dances (actually flamenco revelers) and among its components were people of the high nobility and officers destined in the regiments of Madrid. There prohibited works were read as Le portier des Chartreux (1744) by Jean-Charles Gervaise de Latouche. After being discovered, they were imprisoned or exiled, in a sentence of March 9, 1788, just like the women who were part of society. Among its most prominent members were the Count of Perelada, the founder Count of Clavijo, the Marquis de Chatefort, D. Cristóbal Cañaveral and D. Manuel de Chaves. Jovellanos refers to her in her second Satire A Ernesto, as well as the travelers Alexander Jardine and Giuseppe Baretti. Perhaps the existence of this conversation should be poems such as the translations of the kisses of love of Juan Meléndez Valdés, the Garden of Venus by Felix Maria Samaniego, the lúbricas Poems of Tomás de Iriarte and the futrofic fables attributed to Leandro Fernández de Moratín. Notes
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