Adult News
FOUND: Liza with an SM
For sale on eBay this week: a 1940 edition of Casanova's Memoirs, illustrated by Vincente Minelli, father of Liza, one-time husband of Judy Garland, and the gifted director of many a classic American movie, including "Gigi" and "An American in Paris." Apparently before his career as a film director took off, he had time to illustrate this scandalous work. This piece immediately caught my eye.

Category: Sex and Arts
Posted on 8/29/2008 8:11:30 AM by Gloria Brame
Beware the Terroristic Tits
Ladies, you may wish to wear your sports bras next time you go through airport security because it seems the T in TSA stands for tit-grabbing.
A big-busted woman, Kates was wearing a large underwire bra as she went through the security check at Oakland International Airport but when it set off the metal detector she was pulled aside by a TSA agent.
Kates accuses the agent of getting a little too personal. "The woman touched my breast. I said, 'You can't do that,' " Kates said. "She said, 'We have to pat you down.' I said, 'You can't treat me as a criminal for wearing a bra.' "
Underwire bra dispute causes woman to miss her flight
Sorry, Ms. Kates: obviously, they can.
Interesting that the TSA is being so vigilant about underwire bras, given that they take a lackadaisical attitude towards verifying passengers' identities, as Ketzl recently found out.
Category: Post-Modern Pop Culture
Posted on 8/28/2008 12:04:43 PM by Gloria Brame
What's for dessert
Thanks to Mike for sending me this image of my kind of cake...

Category: Sexual Humor
Posted on 8/28/2008 12:03:46 PM by Gloria Brame
Cuttingly kinky with Mr. Big
It's always cool to find out that some celebrity-type takes a broad-minded attitude towards BDSMers.
It's even cooler when they seem interested....
A bustle of BDSM aficionados (a gaggle? a passel?) gathered at the Cutting Room in the Flatiron district last night to celebrate all things lusty and heinous. Co-owner Chris Noth (aka Mr. Big of Sex in the City fame) was there, ostensibly fixing the jukebox (according to event organizer Aerik Von, who admitted he didn't even realize who Noth was.)
Noth also found time to hang out and admire two women in action. One was topless and enjoying a good swish of cat-o'-nine-tails from her attractive dominatrix. Von, who said his aim was to make the BDSM scene in New York sexy again, was having a grand time. His events, he said, were also designed to reunite two things so long torn asunder in the city: bondage and booze...
BDSM at the Cutting Room
(Image of Noth and SJ Parker from Sex in the City)
Categories: Post-Modern Pop Culture
Sex and Sadomasochism
Posted on 8/27/2008 3:55:11 PM by Gloria Brame
And speaking of nun fantasies....
Found this strangely interesting rubberist site while looking for sexy nun images (as below).

Category: Sex and Sadomasochism
Posted on 8/27/2008 3:54:14 PM by Gloria Brame
She's too sexy for her habit
Aw, pity this never happened. On the other hand, if he wasn't going to let the nuns show a little leg, I guess pervs would have been left to the same old fantasies about what they're hiding under those habits. And perhaps it's better that way after all.
An Italian priest who had planned an online "pageant" for nuns has suspended the project, saying he was misinterpreted and had no intention of putting sisters on a beauty catwalk.
"My superiors were not happy. The local bishop was not happy, but they did not understand me either," Father Antonio Rungi told Reuters by telephone from his convent in southern Italy Tuesday.
He said his concept for the contest, in which nuns would vote for themselves on his blog, would include attributes such as their spirituality, social awareness, charity and other qualities...
No nuns on catwalk, priest stops "beauty contest"
Categories: Post-Modern Pop Culture
Sex and Culture
Sex and Spirituality
Sexual Beauty
Posted on 8/27/2008 3:53:15 PM by Gloria Brame
Cum to Cumsack Mountain
Thanks to Lyn for sending me this link to
The Erotic Map of Canada
(pssst, it's a pdf file)
Category: Sexual Humor
Posted on 8/26/2008 6:51:47 PM by Gloria Brame
If you're happy and you know it, whip your spouse
How very interesting :) I'd like to think it's true -- certainly feels true for us.
Study Finds BDSM Enthusiasts are "Happier"
A study of 20,000 Australians by public health researchers at the University of NSW has found that couples who enjoy BDSM role-playing are generally happier than those who have a more traditionally "normal" sex life.
Professor Juliet Richters said, "People with these sexual interests have long been seen by medicine and the law as, at best, damaged and in need of therapy and, at worst, dangerous and in need of legal regulation."
The study found that men in particular may be happier, scoring much lower on a scale indicating psychological distress than other men, contradicting commonly held professional views.
and from another report of the same study,
The researchers did not study why this was, but suspect it might simply be that they're more in harmony with themselves because they're into something unusual and are comfortable with that.
Prof Richters says the findings go against professional views of BDSM.
"People with these sexual interests have long been seen by medicine and the law as, at best, damaged and in need of therapy and, at worst, dangerous and in need of legal regulation," she said.
Happiness is ... kinky sex
Category: Sex and Sadomasochism
Posted on 8/26/2008 6:50:50 PM by Gloria Brame
An excellent question
From Olympics Fanhouse
Page and Leona Lewis performed a version of the Zeppelin classic "Whole Lotta Love" that had some of the lyrics changed and others excised so as not to offend. Lewis didn't want to sing the line, "I'm gonna give you every inch of my love" in the second verse, because she said she didn't think that particular "sexual innuendo" made sense from a female singer. So "inch" was changed to "bit."
And the third verse, which includes the line, "Shake for me, girl, I wanna be your backdoor man" was deemed inappropriate and was cut from the ceremony.
My question: If the song was considered inappropriate, why didn't they just pick another song, instead of saddling the closing ceremony with a bastardized version?
Category: Sex and Culture
Posted on 8/25/2008 10:41:54 PM by Gloria Brame
The homers, the glomers, and babaloo
I haven't been blogging much about the garden because it's been so hot this summer that it raises a sweat just to think about it. I stopped all planting in late May this year because of the heat and drought (some years I go clear up to late June) and have barely done any of the trimming and weeding the garden so desperately needs because it was so hellish to work in the sun. So all incentive to take photos and report on what's in bloom has vanished behind a welcome wall of air conditioning.
Meanwhile, this was the summer of a renewed interest in aquariums. As a kid I wasn't allowed to have any pets but nonetheless saved up for a fish tank and managed to convince my mother to let me set it up. I was about 10 and, predictably, in those pre-Internet days, when I couldn't ask Google how to assist me through life's complexities, didn't do very well with it. Made all the mistakes every aquarium first-timer makes, from overpopulating the tank to bad feeding habits. What really turned me off from my experiment in fish keeping though was when my adults ate their children. One day I was rejoicing to see tiny babies darting around, and the next very confused to find them disappearing, one by one. All was revealed when I saw a tiny fish skeleton gently drift through the water. Later I think I read at the public library that adult fish will eat their fry if left together in the same tank.
Until then I had no idea that such vast cruelty could even exist in the world as parents eating children. I cannot even begin to explain just how profoundly this traumatized me. I won't say I began looking suspiciously at my own parents after that, but my faith in the fundamental goodness of the world was shattered. Thus ended my romance with the fish tank: I couldn't bare to keep caring for cannibals.
But a few months ago, while idly browsing eBay, I saw a tank that looked very cool: a wall-mounted variety which offers an easy and aesthetically pleasing way to keep fish. One of my subs had recently sent me an eBay gift certificate so I had some cash waiting to be frivolously spent.
The miracle that is Google helped me this time around. Over the past couple of months I've been reading up on all manner of fish-keeping details, from creating healthy and diverse biosystems, to habits and needs of various community tank fish (i.e., fish which can live harmoniously with others). I soon realized the tank I'd bought was never going to be a great environment for the three danios (known as "The Homers") and the dwarf shrimp I'd purchased. They needed more friends, more room, and more bio-diversity than my 2 1/2 gallon tank could possible provide. So for my birthday this year, I asked Jen if she'd get me a second tank. This one's more utilitarian, a 20-gallon model that sits on a table. Armed with googly-knowledge, I was able to create what I hope is a near-ideal environment for the fish I have, and the ones which will soon be added.
Right now the new tank has my three zebra striped danios (who, the pet store had assured me, would die within 2 weeks as the first tank cycled -- but who remain robust and frisky 2 months later), plus three dayglo danios (aka glofish, and we call them the Glomers, as they are genetic kin of the Homers). These dayglo relatives are the result of scientists injecting fluorescent DNA into the danio stew to produce an assortment of bright creatures that glow when the tank is lit (contrary to what one pet store worker told me, they do NOT glow in the dark). The old tank, meanwhile, has been cleaned out and completely re-designed as the pretty new home for a single betta (aka fighting fish), with long cobalt blue fins. After living here a day or two, he told me his name was Babaloo (pet owners know how that goes). He's really adorable (for a fish) and loves his environment, especially the heater which keeps water temperature just the way he likes it (on the warm side). Here's a pic I found on-line of someone who looks almost exactly like Babaloo. Handsome fellow, isn't he?

The assorted danios and a few dwarf cobalt-blue shrimp are enjoying (and breaking in) the second tank. Will and I had quite the little adventure trapping and transferring these tiny things into their new home but they look awfully happy now. They will soon be joined by a small school of neon tetras, another batch of dwarf shrimp, and a couple of cory cats (small bright catfish to eat gunk)...and, if I can find them again, some mini-freshwater clams. The impulse to add everything all at once is almost overwhelming but for the sake of fishie longevity, I've been trying to stick to the recommended schedule.
Needless to say, I've been as obsessed with aquaculture as I am with the garden. Plants currently in tanks include anacharis, water lettuce, bacopa, myria, ludwigia. Dwarf baby tears (hemianthus) and java moss are on order. As with my outdoor garden, I'm trying to do organic aquarium gardening -- don't want to add fertilizer unless I must. I've been learning a little about water plants. Most people use them as decor but I'm aiming for them to do the job they would do in nature, i.e., add nutrients, improve water quality, offer hidey-holes, provide shelter, shade and food.
The fish are actually the cheapest and easiest part. Getting the water properly balanced, creating biodiversity and selecting the right rocks, gravel, and plantings, and then adding stuff to improve quality of aquarium life for its residents is more complicated, time consuming, and waaaay more expensive. Example: wanting to be sure that Babaloo is as happy as a fighting fish can be, I typed "how to make a betta happy" into google, and searched around eBay to see what breeders were selling for their specific needs. Discovered that bettas favor a certain kind of leaf in their water. Not only do they like to cozy up to said leaf, but the leaf also improves chemical levels in the water. Who knew? Only catch is they're rare and imported from Thailand. But is anything too good for my little blue babaloo? Of course not.
The big tank is moving in another direction: heavy on plantings. I've got java moss on order now and plan to create a moss wall. I'm fighting the urge to get yet another aquarium meanwhile (it's madness I tell you, madness), and suppress my natural tendancy to be a responsibility junkie. But one thing for sure: I will definitely set up a third tank if/when my fish give birth, and will keep the babies there until they can hold their own against the adults. There will be no child cannabalism in Mistress Gloria's tanks!
Categories: Autobiographical Urges
Pets and Animal Love
Pleasures of the Garden
Posted on 8/25/2008 10:40:57 PM by Gloria Brame
FOUND: the ultimate fuck-me shoe
Pardon: not really sure if this is the ultimate fuck-me shoe or the ultimate fuck-YOU shoe. Either way, highly fuckable. Well, except for the Mickey Mouse ears.
I believe this was a design for iconoclastic wild fashion diva Vivienne Westwood. No idea if it was ever actually executed though. Any Westwood fans know more?

Categories: Post-Modern Pop Culture
Sex and Sadomasochism
Sexual Strangeness
Posted on 8/25/2008 10:40:02 PM by Gloria Brame
FOUND: ca. 1900 fetish boot
Found while researching fetish boots/shoes for the blog, not sure where this image came from, but did make a note that it was made at the turn of the 20th century. Very curious to know how they were worn. The heels rule out standing, unless you were strapped to something to prevent you from tipping over. If anyone's seen Victorian boots like this before and knows more, would love to know. Would also LOVE to know the provenance, including cobbler and customer, whether there was a cobbler known to work on such specialty fetish boots or whether some perv designed them and hired a cobbler to execute.

Categories: Sex and History
Sex and Sadomasochism
Posted on 8/25/2008 10:39:03 PM by Gloria Brame
Depravity you cannot see anywhere else
Our wonderful slaveything, Ketzl, puts her most personal sm confessions behind a privacy filter on her lj blog. She just posted this one where public eyes can't see it, but being the perv I am, I decided to reprint it here, in its entirety.
This is for those who wonder how we keep ourselves entertained in the boonies....(as well as those of you who may be wondering how those buzzy panties fitted with the shock device are working out....)
Last night W, G and I were hanging out in the living room watching tv. I don't remember what was on, it must not have been that interesting because G was using the shock-panty remote quite liberally, just to make me jump and scream. G says with delight "I am a demented child!" and hits the button, I go 'YOW!' and then W & G fall over giggling.

G got a Humanatone nose-flute a long time ago. It is not hard to play but for some reason neither she nor W can make notes from it. I played clarinet for years so perhaps I have an advantage. I used it to play 'Happy Birthday' for her on Wednesday. I knew she would love it because it looks so ridiculous. What I didn't expect is that she'd shock me while I was playing, but of course she did and it made me puff air into the Humanatone so it sounded like "Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Mrs Master, Happy BirTWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!" This made us all giggle so much we were literally ROFL. They made me do a repeat performance but every time I got the thing near my face I started laughing again.
Back to last night then. I don't know how this came up exactly, but G started calling me a "creamy-titted cunt-twitcher" and made me use the Humanatone to make birdcalls. Of course as soon as I got a tone going she zapped me so it really did sound like some sort of bird, if that bird was insane. "tooTWEEEEEET!!!!!"
Sadly I'm going to be off on a business trip all next week. Shock-panty hiatus!
Categories: Autobiographical Urges
Sex and Sadomasochism
Sexual Humor
Sexual Strangeness
Posted on 8/24/2008 6:48:31 AM by Gloria Brame
Sex sucks
Or at least, the wits at Gawker are feeling that way about it, and summarize their dyspepsia in this hilarious piece (with hilarious links):
Week In Review: The Week That Killed Sex
Mrs. Robert Zemeckis wrote a terrible book, with terrible sex. Michael Phelps had sex with everyone in China, which is terrible. Rielle Hunter has a terrible baby! John McCain was tortured by gay sadists! Oh, and ugh, someone is maybe a sadistic gay rapist. Don't break up with Andres Martinez! And then, finally, the Mrs. Jared Paul Stern sex tape. See? No more sex for anyone, ever. It's gross.
Category: Sexual Humor
Posted on 8/24/2008 6:47:35 AM by Gloria Brame
Fetish meets Art in St. Louis
Times are definitely changing in Missouri. Not so very long ago, the idea of BDSM mingling with music, poetry and visual art and being staged for the public would have caused controversy, if not censorship, in this bastion of conservative politics. Now, it's cause for a fascinating article about an intriguing spectacle. If you're in metro St. Louis and have a chance to see this, please let me know what you thought of it. (By the way, my husband hales from Missouri -- can't wait to tell him about this.)
The music started, the spotlights came on, and Parr began breathing into the mic, “fuck her hard, she asked for it.” The models, dressed in nude-colored clothing, except for black high-heeled boots and stilettos, stalked down the runway, frequently initiating contact with audience members. The sculptural pieces adhered to their bodies varied from stylized collars and blindfolds to twisting neuronal representations that branched out inquisitively and reminded the viewer that that same brain-stuff is in his or her own head, too. The models would often make clear their dominance over the audience by placing a spiked heel on the knee of a front-row spectator. One piece even seemed to take on a new meaning when interaction was initiated – a large wire and silvery cloth contraption that evoked the energy of an erection became fellatio when the cloth was draped over the head of an audience member.
The crowd attending Gehris’ show that night might lend credence to her belief in the growing acceptance of the fetish scene. Men and women in full leather attire with whips and other toys dangling from their belts mingled with some apparently vanilla, although slightly uncomfortable looking, hipsters....
Standard:Deviation—Not your average psychology class
Categories: Sex and Arts
Sex and Culture
Sex and History
Sex and Sadomasochism
Posted on 8/23/2008 8:36:37 AM by Gloria Brame
Update on Glenn Marcus
I blogged a bit about Glenn Marcus, first when he was on trial and then in September '07, when he was convicted. Marcus was accused of torture and abuse by a former submissive who had worked for, and played with, him. A number of Marcus' friends (including his long-time SM partner) believed this was a a vendetta by an angy sub, who regretted consenting to master/slave and turned on her former master with a vengeance. The courts, however, decided at the time that there was legitimate cause for conviction.
Seems the conviction was just overturned, as the judge gave incorrect instructions and allowed the jury to convict based on a law that may not have been in effect. At question is whether a law enacted in 2000 applied to SM acts that Marcus may have engaged in as early as 1999.
Reason Magazine reports the story, and raises the question of whether the courts showed prejudice against BDSM relationships in this case.
Given the nature of the relationship and Jodi's decision to continue it for years after it supposedly became nonconsensual, there seems to be plenty of room for reasonable doubt that anything Marcus did violated her rights. But as Brian Doherty noted in March 2007, a federal jury convicted Marcus of violating the "sex trafficking" and "forced labor" provisions of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). In September he received a nine-year prison sentence. Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit overturned (PDF) the convictions, noting that the TVPA was enacted in October 2000, while the actions by Marcus that prosecutors claimed violated the statute occurred between January 1999 and October 2001. The judge failed to instruct the jury that Marcus could not be held liable for violating a law that did not exist. Since it was possible that Marcus was convicted based on his conduct before the TVPA was enacted, the 2nd Circuit said, "the convictions violate the Ex Post Facto Clause."
When Does a 'Slave' Become a Slave?
Categories: Sex and Sadomasochism
Sex Laws and Crimes
Posted on 8/21/2008 4:31:38 PM by Gloria Brame
Full moon in bloom
Thanks to J. for sending me this exquisite photo. Amazing shot!

Category: Pleasures of the Garden
Posted on 8/21/2008 4:30:41 PM by Gloria Brame
SM Vocabulary Builder: Andromonoecy
Andromonoecy: a mechanism enabling plants to independently allocate resources to female and male function.
Scientific usage
A French study reveals the genetic underpinnings to the curious reproductive system of melons, called andromonoecy, in which individual plants carry both male and bisexual (hermaphroditic) flowers. -- from the Strange sex life of melons exposed
Possible SM usages
Breathless sub: "I just saw Sir put on a petticoat. He must be feeling andromonoetic today."
Nasty domme: "Bend over, you whore. You may think you're all man, but you'll always be an andromonoene to me!"
Category: Sexual Humor
Posted on 8/20/2008 7:35:37 PM by Gloria Brame
Them bones, them bones, them penis bones
A shout out to Snopes, the ultimate Internet myth-busters, for sharing this mouthful of scholarly penile facts.
Vigorous sexual intercourse is the main cause of penile fracture in the Western world....The majority of cases in the Eastern world are results of patients snapping and kneading of their penis during erection to achieve detumescence....
All for a good cause, as some pranksters have been spamming mailboxes with this:
The x-ray illustration above that supposedly illustrates a case of penile fracture is a fabrication.... Although the male of many species of mammal does have a baculum (a bony rod within the penis also known as a "penis bone" or "penile bone"), that structure is not found in human beings. The interior of a human penis is mostly sponge-like and contains no solid, bone-like structure that could snap in half as pictured above.
Phallic Fracture
Category: Sexual Health
Posted on 8/20/2008 7:34:39 PM by Gloria Brame
It's my birthday and you can

....Share the merriment with me! On this, my 53d birthday, you can give me the best gift in the world: laughter. Do something simply to crack yourself up today -- and then tell me all about it.
Category: Sexual Humor
Posted on 8/20/2008 7:33:40 PM by Gloria Brame