Faster than a speeding pervert! More powerful than a weighted single-tail! Able to leap to depraved conclusions in a single bound! Look! Up on my blog! It's a show! It's an Erotic Show! It's....
LOIS LANE??? WTF?
Erotic Art Show fans know that sometimes you get fine, classical art here (--and by the way I am featuring a brilliant contemporary erotic fine artist later today--), sometimes fascinating little erotic baubles, an occasional focus on personalities (from Houdini to Marilyn Monroe), and even deliciously sleazy kitsch, including graphic arts of the pulpiest kind -- from movie posters and mexican lobby cards to old detective magazine covers.
My goal: to cover as many different genres of visual art as possible, from high to low to everything in between. My diabolical motive: to demonstrate through art that sex and particularly kinky/fetishistic/sadomasochistic sex is pervasive. You may not recognize it seeing one image at a time -- but when you take a group of images and put them side by side, suddenly they add up to some stunning realizations.
For example, realizing that Superman's girlfriend is, as we pervy people like to describe it, "VERY VERSATILE." It all started when I was looking at some Wonder Woman comics (and yes, fans of the super-hero, I'm going to do a little tribute to her in coming weeks), and stumbled across this:
Huh. Well, look at that. I always knew I liked Superman, but I thought it was because of George Reeve's rakishly kinky good looks. And then there was that form-fitting fetish suit he wore....
But what about Lois again? Oh yeah. I searched. And I found. Boy, did I find.
Great Caesar's Ghost! It's an SM party! In comic after comic, Lois is tied up (and tied up again) or transformed into everybody's kinky playmate: a furry, a giantess, a queen, a catfighter, a devil, a centaur, and more more more. All of which you'll find behind the cut, along with a bonus Jimmy. The covers are simply hilarious.
But first, if you're a fan of the classic TV series , you might enjoy checking out this little piece NBC ran a couple of years ago about Noel Neill and Jack Larson (the actors who played Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen). For obvious reasons, I'm clipping the opening and best sentence in the piece.
TV's Lois and Jimmy return, too
Noel Neill and Jack Larson spent some of their best years in bondage, trussed up together waiting for Superman to break down a wall and save them.....
Here's your bonus Jimmy!
Category: Sex and Arts
Posted on 3/22/2008 7:41:10 AM by Gloria Brame
Intimations of Immorality
You better promise me you'll see tomorrow's Erotic Art Show!
Category: Sex and Arts
Posted on 3/21/2008 7:02:09 AM by Gloria Brame
Walrus with moves
Hang in there...just one more day...and it will be Friday! Oh yeah, baby! Shake it!
from my email, and for all you emerging and established erotica writers, Rachel Kramer Bussel is soliciting contributions for two upcoming erotica anthologies.
Public Call for Submissions Holy Sex
Edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel
To be published by Cleis Press
Editor Rachel Kramer Bussel is looking for erotica that touches on religion or spirituality. This can be interpreted widely, whether sex that brings you closer to a given deity, following or disobeying religious rules around sex, sex between clergy or between clergy and laypeople, combining sex and prayer, etc. Please use your imagination; creativity will be rewarded. The emphasis of this book is not on sacrilegious stories, but on displaying as wide array as possible of erotica that encompasses various religious viewpoints and practices. I'm looking for stories from across the religious spectrum; stories can be humorous, serious, realistic, etc. Stories featuring all genders/sexual orientations are welcome. Please note that the more unique your story, the better its chances (hence, hold off on the generic screwing in a church tale unless you have a new angle on it). To get a feel for the kinds of stories I like, please read any of my previous Cleis Press anthologies. Original stories are highly preferred, but a limited number of reprints will be considered. If your story has been previously published, you must own the rights to it and must state the previous publication title and date in your cover letter.
All characters must be over 18; no incest or bestiality.
Payment: Contributors will receive $50/story and 2 copies of the anthology on publication.
How to submit: Send double spaced Times New Roman 12 point black font Word document OR RTF of 2,000-4,000 word story along with your legal name (and pseudonym if applicable), mailing address, and 50-75 word bio in the third person to
holysexantho@gmail.com - make sure you indent half an inch at the start of each paragraph. Those who do not submit in this format and include this information will not be considered. If you are using a pseudonym, please provide your real name and pseudonym and make it clear which one you'd like to be credited as.
Authors may submit up to two stories for this anthology. If you want to make sure I've received your submission, please state that in your cover letter. Send only the final version of your story; do NOT submit a draft or unfinished version only to later submit an updated version. If for some reason it is impossible to send your story as a Word document or RTF attachment, please paste it into the body of your email. Submissions will be considered on a rolling basis, so the earlier you get yours in, the better your chances of acceptance.
I will get back to you about this anthology as soon as I can, but please note that it will likely take several months before I am able to do so. You can expect to hear back from me by November 2008 at the latest. Any questions about this anthology should be sent to holysexantho@gmail.com
Deadline: April 22, 2008 (earlier stories welcomed and preferred)
Public Call for Submissions
Plane Sex: Mile High Erotica (working title)
Edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel
To be published by Cleis Press
Editor Rachel Kramer Bussel is looking for erotica featuring sex on a plane. All genders/sexual orientations. Please keep in mind that since the book's theme is so specific, I am looking for as broad a range of sex acts, situations, and relationships as possible. Creativity is key here. Sex between passengers, flight attendants, pilots, private planes and commercial jets, incorporating sex toys and/or kink are all welcome. Original stories are highly preferred, but reprints will be considered as long as you retain the rights to the story; if you are sending a reprint, please state when and where it was originally published. To get a feel for the kinds of stories I like, please read any of my previous Cleis Press anthologies.
All characters must be over 18; no incest or bestiality.
Payment: Contributors will receive $50/story and 2 copies of the anthology on publication.
How to submit: Send double spaced Times New Roman 12 point black font Word document OR RTF of 2,000-4,000 word story along with your legal name (and pseudonym if applicable), mailing address, and 50-75 word bio to milehighantho@gmail.com - make sure you indent half an inch at the start of each paragraph and do not add extra lines between paragraphs. Those who do not submit in this format and include this information will not be considered.
Authors may submit up to two stories for this anthology. If you want to make sure I've received your submission, please state that in your cover letter. Send only the final version of your story; do NOT submit a draft or unfinished version only to later submit an updated version. If for some reason it is impossible to send your story as a Word document or RTF attachment, please paste it into the body of your email. Submissions will be considered on a rolling basis, so the earlier you get yours in, the better your chances of
acceptance.
You can expect to hear from me by November 2008 at the latest with a final decision. I will do my best to give you a preliminary answer by July 2008, but until then, please do not ask about the selection process; I promise to let you know as soon as I can. Any questions about this anthology should be sent to milehighantho@gmail.com
Deadline: May 15, 2008
Category: Sex and Arts
Posted on 3/21/2008 7:00:12 AM by Gloria Brame
FOUND: Oh how family values do change
Daddies certainly still give little girls horse-back rides (at least I hope they do!), but somehow I don't think too many of them are ready to stick flowers in their hair and wear a bit to entertain their young daughters. At least I hope they don't. Save that stuff for your dominatrix, boys!
Category: Sex and Culture
Posted on 3/21/2008 6:59:16 AM by Gloria Brame
FOUND: Vintage submissive tableau
Once again, a random find without explanation or attribution. Can't quite tell if it's a private photo or a French postcard. Victorian era, perhaps? Any guesses? Anyone recognize the uniform the guy on the left is wearing?
OK, folks: has anyone ever tried to make an SM diorama with Peeps? Send me your pix and I'll post them!
Category: Sexual Humor
Posted on 3/21/2008 6:57:18 AM by Gloria Brame
Whipping 101 for penitents
Yes, folks, it's that Lenten time of the year when religious extremists around the world take to the streets to whip themselves and get nailed to crosses to celebrate Easter.
No one better get a sexual charge out of it, though, because then whipping and crucifixion would be frowned on by the Church.
Let me explain. This is how to tell the SMers apart from the rest of the world:
We do such things because they feel wonderful and magical. So that's morally wrong.
They do them to feel miserable and shattered. That's morally right.
Um.
Anyway, here's some sound advice, courtesy of The Manila Times:
The Department of Health strongly advised penitents to first check on the condition of the whip they will use before they lash their backs with it....
Health Secretary Francisco Duque 3rd said that since it is hard to discourage flagellants from whipping their own flesh, the best penitents can do is ensure that their whips are well-maintained....
“Getting deep cut wounds during whippings or lashings is inevitable and being so exposed during the course of the penitence, with all the heat and dust blowing in the wind, welcomes all sorts of infections and bacteria like tetanus."
Get whipped at your own risk, penitents, pilgrims warned.
Of the many things one might expect to find on a news site like CBS, this is probably not one of them.
And yet, there it is:
Your Penis Is Shaped Like a Boomerang.
Category: Sexual Health
Posted on 3/21/2008 6:55:21 AM by Gloria Brame
Horsleying around with Whores
The perfect companion piece to my earliest post -- for all you Spitzer-wanna-be's.
via
Gawker
Category: Sexual Humor
Posted on 3/20/2008 9:56:48 AM by Gloria Brame
It's hard to be a whore
Mainstream media's trying ever so hard to milk the Spitzer scandal for all it's worth, which naturally means exploiting the good-looking sex-worker in the mix. First it was interviews with her mother, then it was the endless drone of her mediocre music, then it was her deal to make money off the former Governor's shame by posing naked in a video and today it's the story of said deal falling to pieces because she's appeared nude on video before. I'm sure you're as shocked as I am to discover that a woman who's been a sex-worker for four years has naked images of herself floating around.
"Girls Gone Wild" had offered to pay Dupre $1 million to pose nude in a magazine it plans to launch but, after discovering the old footage, the company withdrew its offer.
Personally, I don't care if Ms. Dupre makes money. Good for her if she can cut a multi-million dollar deal before the public's attention drifts back to Britney's latest psychotic break. May she enroll in the Joey Buttafuoco/John Bobbet School of Media Exploitation and prosper.
Meanwhile, though no one's discussing it, prostitution is still illegal in this country. Which means that sooner or later, Ms. Dupre is going to be arrested. Perhaps her lawyer's already cut a deal for her cooperation but the real future for Ms. Dupre is lots of legal bills and time spent talking to lawyers and judges. It will be most interesting to see just what the Feds really do with the information, and who - if any - of the clients, owners, and call-girls, will end up in jail. To me, these are the only interesting questions in this scandal. Will the Feds enforce existing sex laws and, if so, to what degree and against whom? Will all the call-girls and all the clients come up on charges along with the owners and operators of the business? Are plea-deals already in the making? And by the way, what were the Feds REALLY looking for when they wired Spitzer up tighter than a tweaker's nut sac?
I'm not hearing those questions. Instead I'm getting tabloid-style fake dribble. PR spins. Prurient interest disguised as news. The transmutation of a whore from one man's dirty secret to a nation's public sex kitten.
A few short weeks ago, she was just another young woman who worked in the sex industry. Hard-working and ambitious, with dreams of moving on some day to more spiritually meaningful pursuits. In other words, pretty much your typical call-girl/stripper/happy-ender. In my experience, sex-workers tend to be pretty nice people. Also IMX, their biggest problem is not they have sex for money but that they are so desperately misunderstood, mistreated and maligned by the general public. The stress of operating a sex business in a society which both rewards you for it financially, while punishing and insulting you publicly, is killing.
Consider this irony: as a sex-worker, you don't just hear about vigilant anti-sex prosecutors and family-values-touting pastors -- you suck their cocks.
It would be refreshing to see media use this opportunity to re-examine our country's ludicrous heritage of draconian sex laws. It would be fascinating to learn what political hijinks caused NY's governor to be wired, or to speculate on the legal repercussions. It would be nice, also, to see someone, somewhere, treat sex-workers as the socially oppressed minority they are, and to change public perception of their work to something considerably more humane and forgiving.
It's really hard to be a sex-worker. It's stressful, difficult work and the most stressful thing about it is the social hypocrisy that surrounds it. I hope Ms. Dupre can emotionally insulate herself before this collective media gang-bang unravels her young life.
Category: Sex and Culture
Posted on 3/20/2008 9:55:50 AM by Gloria Brame
Who's afraid of the big bad butt plug?
Gee, I don't know why these folks are so disturbed....doesn't every home have a baby Jesus butt plug?
The 25 Most Disturbing Sex Toys
Hedonism got way out of a hand when the internet came along and the sex toy market exploded like, well, a bukkake video. Where once it was simple shoulder massagers and turkey basters that had to be adapted to nefarious purposes, nowadays anything you can think of (and probably a few dozen things you could never think...
Category: Sexual Humor
Posted on 3/20/2008 9:54:52 AM by Gloria Brame
Lil Jon's RX for philanderers
il Jon.
Category: Sexual Humor
Posted on 3/20/2008 9:53:53 AM by Gloria Brame
Flocke, the shameless foot fetishist
Guess you've all heard there's a new polar bear cub on the block? Meet Flocke, the pride and joy of the Nuremberg Zoo.
Here she is nom nom nomming her keeper/mommy's toes Yeah. Yum. Toes taste good.
If that didn't make you melt to a sickening ooze of saccharine animal love, look at this.
Found in different places at different times but the garters/bondage theme made me decide to pair them up here. I'm guessing they are from the 60s and 70s. I'd say both were copies of pix from some old bondage magazines but that first one looks like a Polaroid, which was usually the sign of private pervs. Hm. Do the images or players look familiar? If they bring back any memories for you, oh, please, do tell. (Particularly any stories about the first time you saw pix like these in the old B&D rags.)
Category: Sexual Strangeness
Posted on 3/18/2008 12:11:25 PM by Gloria Brame
Studies in the Absurd: spanking, housework, short people
A study was splashed all over the media a few weeks ago, claiming that spanking could lead to sexual problems in later life, and lots of you emailed me links (thanks!), hoping I'd blog about it. Frankly, I found the study's conclusions (or at least those reported in media) so fallacious that I wasn't even sure what to say. It felt like I'd be stooping even to raise such preposterous notions to the level of serious debate.
I've decided to come at it another way by pondering a larger problem: the way sex-related science is reported in the press and how sex-related issues are sensationalized and misrepresented. I've blogged a bunch about how the U.S. government, for example, is pimping circumcision in Africa as a great way to reduce AIDS (when the only great way is to use condoms). Any time there is any kind of seemingly pro-circumcision study done anywhere, you will notice that -- surprise, surprise -- it's all over AP and Reuters. You will also note that less popular studies don't get reported -- at least not until there is something in the details that makes a sexy story. For example, the CDC has issued reports for over four years now about how STDs are at epidemic levels and rising at an alarming rate among teens: but it's only been in the last week or two that the "news" made headlines, to wit, "one in four teen girls has an STD."
I doubt there was a sex researcher anywhere in the world who was surprised by that headline. Because it wasn't news, really. The CDC just found a new angle on the epidemic-in-progress that suddenly made it sexy to reporters. Infected teen age girls. Cha-ching! That means at least one in four teen girls is sexually active! Cha-ching, cha-ching. That's right, parents. Your daughters are whores. JACKPOT! One wonders if CNN has produced graphics yet for a special about the heavy price of teenage lust, in preparation for another scintillating spectacle of sexual hysteria brought to you by American media whores.
Anyway, the funny thing - as in tragically funny - is that you can't even hold the researchers responsible for the "conclusions" they allegedly came to because half the time, those weren't the conclusions they came to at all. Often, their conclusions were more complex and intricate, their research goals more subtle and high-minded. But because there is a wild and woolly game of "telephone" that gets played as news of studies filters through media portals, the story gets dumbed down until it reaches some state of perfect simplicity that even a child could understand.
Before scientific conclusions reach public consciousness, you have (a) the people who speak for scientists (usually bosses or bureaucrats) and (b) the people who take scientific results and translate them (i.e., science reporters and sometimes reporters who know nothing about science but got stuck with the assignment) to laymen (i.e., news-gobblers with the attention spans of fleas).
It's part of a reporter's job to explain complicated ideas in a few short, dramatic paragraphs that will grip the reader's attention. Whereas the process of discovering scientific evidence is long and difficult, and builds in small, slow steps and relies on other studies and is, well, fundamentally boring to people who aren't scientists. So time and again, large-scale and complex studies end up being a handful of distorted sound-bytes. Black and white answers make for compelling reading, while scientific accuracy gets left behind in the lab.
Now sometimes, you can rely on the news about studies. You can usually rely on it, for example, if it is published in JAMA or Lancet, or other scientific journals with qualified review committees. Still, I say usually because even in the loftiest of publications, politics and corporate influences often play a role in what gets published and how things are edited.
So I'm going to try and be charitable to all the scientists who undoubtedly worked hard on their studies and assume that they view their results with a good deal more ambiguity and subtlety than the media reports suggest. Because if I believed the media reports and actually thought that these people had set out to prove these conclusions I'd regrettably have to see them all as fuckwits and that would make me sad.
Here are three studies that hit the headlines in the last couple of weeks, with some dyspeptic observations on the conclusions. I'll start with the one on spanking.
Study: Spanking may lead to sexual problems later
Gershoff says that though many children have been spanked (85% in one 2007 survey), problems may depend on how they process the spanking.
Wow. Really? Violence against children could make them unhappy or wounded adults? No shit! Do you suppose the tongue-lashing, verbal abuse, accusations, intimidation, face-slaps, and lock-downs had any effect on them too? Or was it JUST spankings?
The study's reported conclusions are ridiculous because they singled out only one behavior - whereas development (sexual and otherwise) is always a result of complex forces, including genetic predisposition, social influences and family values/attitudes. To isolate one behavior out of a vast universe of variables is not just ignorant, it reeks of pre-existing bias.
Can spanking fuck some kids up? Sure. So can toilet training. So too can hearing your clergyman tell you that you'll go to hell if you masturbate. Why don't they study the effects of authoritarian figures telling kids that sex is bad? As a therapist, I see a lot more sexual dysfunction resulting from religious dogma than from ass-whuppings.
This next story is so stupid I couldn't even bear to clip from it.
Doing dull chores could improve sex life, US experts say.
Oh dear God. A story which claims that the more husbands vacuum and dust, the more they get laid. Isn't it ridiculously obvious that they've missed the forest for the trees on this one? Is it really housework that turns women on? Or could it just be that it has something to do with the fact that the guy gives a shit?
What makes women inclined to have sex with their partners is pretty simple: love and happiness. When a man makes you happy, you're happy to throw him a fuck. Am I right, women? No one wants to fuck a guy who makes her feel like crap. Not even a self-respecting masochist wants that. But it's easy to be generous with someone who treats you right.
Men who pay attention to their wives' needs, who work at her side or relieve her tedium, are the men who demonstrate through DEED and not bullshit that they actually love, honor and respect her. IOW, it isn't because the guy is doing a chore: it's because the guy cares enough to want to do it. And to do it for HER.
But, I guess a headline screaming "Caring, Loving Men get laid more often" wouldn't cut it.
And, finally, my favorite stupid study, for personal reasons.
(Disclaimer: I am of the little people.)
Short people are most prone to jealousy, say scientists
.... The more vertically challenged the man, the greater his feelings of jealousy.
You mean short guys feel insecure about their height! I guess late is better than never when it comes to proving the existence of a Napoleanic Complex.
Meanwhile, how is this different from saying "people who feel out of the norm feel threatened by people who fit the norm?" And what other physical variables were factored into this study? For example, what if you're a short guy but you're gorgeous. Are you insecure standing next to tall horse-faced goofy-looking motherfucker, or do you secretly count your blessings? Or what if you're a short guy but you have a 10 inch dick. Would you be more intimidated or less intimidated by a tall guy with a 5 incher?
The article goes on to say how tall woman are more dominant and better fighters than short ones.
All I can say is that whomever wrote that obviously never met up with a short girl from Brooklyn.
Category: Sex and Culture
Posted on 3/18/2008 12:10:26 PM by Gloria Brame
FOUND: Dog treats with a difference
Ummm....I'll assume this is some goofy marketing concept sold at tchotchka shops and Mall doodad emporia?
Seems like a perfect treat for that friend who loves puppy play.
Category: Sexual Humor
Posted on 3/17/2008 4:29:36 PM by Gloria Brame
FOUND: 20th century SM porn
Spotted this while surfing and I'm guessing it was photographed in the 1930s or 40s or maybe even the 50s? Check out those socks and shoes. Oh my.
Anyone have any good ideas on this? Could they be stills from an old B&W SM movie or are these just amateur pervs of yesteryear? If that's your grandma or grandpa(s), please do let me know :)