Here’s something you didn’t know you needed in your life: teeny tiny pig porn. Made in the early 20th century, these little gold-painted pig charms hide a tiny erotic photo viewed by peering into the pig’s butthole. ⁣⁣
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These charms contain a hidden Stanhope lens — a one piece microscope used for viewing tiny microphotographs as small as the head of a pin. From the late 1850s, it became trendy to embed Stanhopes in everyday items like pocket watches or thimbles, often sold as holiday souvenirs with pictures of popular tourist scenes. ⁣
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But humans be humans and it didn’t take long for someone to figure out this was also a great way of hiding porn. ⁣I’m not entirely sure why golden pig charms became a particular thing, except that pigs are particularly associated with male lust. (Hence why chauvinist men are called ‘pigs’. See also: the weirdly seductive Miss Piggy.)⁣⁣

⁣⁣The pig charm pictured in the first and last images was recently for sale through the marvellous St Eloi Vintage⁣. However, as they warned, these charms are coated in lead paint, so if you don’t want to risk lead poisoning you may be better off getting your porn from the old-fashioned internet rather than the butthole of a tiny gold pig. ⁣

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