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Penthouse’s first fetish pictorial: vintage BDSM
The Venus Observations blog focuses on the history of American newstand porn magazines, particularly the competition between Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler and their various spin-offs and competitors....
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More on Penthouse’s first BDSM pictorial
The Seduction of Venus blog has a more detailed discussion of Penthouse magazine’s first BDSM pictorial in the February 1976 issue. It includes some unpublished photos from the same shoot. Taking a...
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Dr. Gloria Brame posted this video of vintage dominatrix photography, going back in the 19th century.
View ArticleFifty Shades of Grey commentary: Chapter 5
Ana wakes up in Christian’s hotel suite the next morning. Christian not only had her undressed, but sent his bodyguard off to buy her a complete set of new clothes. Um, wasn’t Ana’s friend and...
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Vintage Stereo-optic Lesbian BDSM
Gloria Brame has posted a set of stereo-optic 3D images, likely made in 1920s France, of Ff BDSM scenes.
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Edward Shorter’s “Written in the Flesh: a History of Desire”
Shorter, Edward. Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire University of Toronto Press, 2005 Caveat: due to time restrictions, I’ve only read the “SM and Fetish” chapter of Shorter’s book. This...
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Vintage French illustrator Chéri Hérouard, aka Herric
The Seduction of Venus has a post on French illustrator Chéri Hérouard, aka Herric. Many of them feature lesbians (or tribades as they would have been known) who, in Paris at least, had very much come...
View ArticleMy steampunk erotica story “Upstairs, Downstairs”
My steampunk erotica story “Upstairs, Downstairs” is now up on Every Night Erotica. It’s a short-short story about two characters from my steampunk erotica short story collection, The Innocent’s...
View ArticleSinging Dominatrix in vintage film “Satan In High Heels”
While we’re talking about Lenny Burtman, here’s a few clips from a film he produced, Satan in High Heels (1962). A woman in leather with a riding crop sings “Female of the Species” in a nightclub. Her...
View ArticleMaster-slave Conference 2012 debriefing: Learning from Master-slave fiction
The second panel I attended on Sunday morning was “Learning from Master-slave fiction”, with David Stein, Laura Antoniou, Anneke Jacob and Reid Spencer. Most people encounter BDSM fiction before they...
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She-Wolf of Abu Ghraib
Well, this had to happen sooner or later. I found this image on the Femdom Artists blog. This is the cover of a Mexican magazine, presumably published sometime in the late 2000s, based on the iconic...
View ArticleIlsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976), Directed by Don Edmonds, Written by Langston Stafford IMDB To secure America’s oil supply, a diplomat who is a caricature of Henry Kissinger and a hunky...
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Dr. Samuel Johnson’s “insane thoughts on fetters and hand-cuffs”
In researching the history of consensual sadomasochism, there isn’t a comprehensive body of knowledge to draw upon, no established canon of reference works, no Journal of Sadomasochistic Studies....
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Nazisploitation classic Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS
Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975) dir. Don Edmonds IMDB Amazon Arguably the best known Nazisploitation film (though Love Camp 7 (1969) is usually cited as the first), Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS was a...
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The new frontier of financial domination and computer domination
I’ll admit, financial domination was a kink I didn’t really get, even intellectually. I just assumed it was something thought up by pro dommes for guys who were too anxious to meet them in person. The...
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Noah Berlatsky’s Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter...
Berlatsky, Noah. 2015. Wonder Woman: bondage and feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press Wonder Woman spanking a man in Roman soldier...
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Guest Post: Did William Moulton Marston and Charles Guyette actually meet?
Still from the film. Central is Bella Heathcote as Olive Byrne. In the background is JJ Field as Charles Guyette. [The film Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017, dir. Angela Robinson) is a...
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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman (2017). Director and writer Angela Robinson. IMDB Who was Professor William Moulton Marston? A fantasist in the tradition of Frank Baum or Lewis Carrol? A guy...
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The Woman in Black: in search of the proto-dominatrix
What are the sartorial origins of the black-clad dominatrix? I will skip the more familiar examples from recent years and try to find the earlier examples. Certainly everyone will remember Diana Rigg...
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Review: Dominatrix, by Danielle J. Lindemann
Lindemann, Danielle J. 2012. Dominatrix: gender, eroticism, and control in the dungeon. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012. “Professional dominatrix” is an archetype that...
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