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Rousseau and the English vice
London in the early 1700′s. “Fanny whips Mr. Barville” Édouard-Henri Avril’s illustration for Cleland’s novel, Fanny Hill Rousseau was one of the first authors for whom the maxim “know thyself”...
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History of porn, dirty jokes and more
I didn’t know that there were any surreal dance scenes in a Jerry Lewis movie. Emory University professor Michele Schreiber on gender in Mad Men. The “History of BDSM” blog has moved and posted a...
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Oh, what a tangled web it is that weaves the spider
“Offering a gift of any kind, either real or fake, was more likely to lead to a spider getting some nooky, but males that presented a yummy treat were able to spend more time mating, and more time...
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Fetish History (but it’s really hers’)
Holly Faram photographed by John A. S. Coutts (1930′s) Via the Weimar blog Avi Steinberg on the nympho librarian genre: “It was, in fact, a prudish French librarian in the early nineteenth century who...
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Kinky boots
Source “Rachman and Hodgson (1968) found that a photograph of a pair of women’s boots could elicit erections in five men when the photo was paired with erotic slides.” It’s hard to find the Rachman...
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Monsters we know and love
Maximilián Pirner “Hecate” (1901) “About two thirds of the fifteen … vampire stories which were published in this quarter of a century between “Carmilla” and Dracula figured the female vampire. Clearly...
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Constructing unreconstructed types
From Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” An interesting article on the possibly urban myth of “gerbiling” (but some such myths become self-fulfilling prophecies — once the idea’s out there,...
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Motion studies
“Learning that breasts soak up lots of chemicals made Williams wonder just what else was going on with breasts. A lot, as it turns out. In her new book, Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History,...
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That special chemistry
“Women’s reproductive fertility peaks for a few days in the middle of their cycle around ovulation. Because conception is most likely to occur inside this brief fertile window, evolutionary theories...
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Sexy spirits
The Erotic Dreams of Emanuel Swedenborg: “The image of the vagina dentata (vagina with teeth) appears again in no. 261 where [Swedenborg] sees in a vision a fiercely burning coal fire that represents...
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Buffy and her kind
Bat Woman (by Albert-Joseph Pénot, 1890) RIP Jess Franco, who made Vampyros Lesbos, among other films. All kinds of Jess Franco on this blog. “Sex, Death, and Ecstasy: the Art of Transgression” by Lois...
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Oh, what a tangled web it is that weaves the spider
“Offering a gift of any kind, either real or fake, was more likely to lead to a spider getting some nooky, but males that presented a yummy treat were able to spend more time mating, and more time...
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Sexologists
By Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949) “The producers of new US drama Masters of Sex discuss Virginia Johnson’s pioneering 1950s research into sexual attitudes, and the subversive, revolutionary spirit...
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