Justice Weekly, Canada’s post-WWII fetish magazine
Being Canadian, I’m always interested in Canada’s contributions to the sexual edge of culture. I was delighted to stumble across the story of Justice Weekly, a true crime tabloid newspaper published in...
View ArticleNazi porn in Israeli stalag novels and mens adventure magazines
I found another page on the Stalag novels, a sub-genre of porn/pulp novels published in Israel in the 1960s, and featuring sex-and-violence adventure tales set in concentration camps. The books told...
View ArticleLondon Life’s amputee fetish stories and letters
Amputee fetish site Overground.be has a collection of amputee fetish and letters published in London Life magazine, running from 1924 to 1941 and most signed “Wallace Stort”. Some of the letters also...
View ArticleFifty Shades of Grey magazine: the gateway to cuddling
If you need more evidence that the Fifty Shades trilogy is actually an anti-kink book, look no further than the Fifty Shades one-off magazine, probably on a newsstand near you. Apart from cocktail...
View ArticleShe-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 ArticlePenthouse puts on the Reich in 1977
The Seduction of Venus blog digs into a 1977 Penthouse “love set”, with a Nazi theme. This was in the years following films like Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS, Salon Kitty and The Night Porter, when there...
View ArticlePlayboy 1983: “A Walk On The Wild Side”
Cover of Playboy August 1983, featuring Sybil Danning Back in August 1983, Playboy magazine ran a feature on the New York City sexual underground, “A Walk On The Wild Side”, by John R. Petersen (Pg....
View ArticleThe Roots of 1970s lesbian sadomasochism
There are a couple of principles I keep in mind when studying history. The first is, “You have to work with the evidence you have.” We have no way of knowing how many people secretly had relationships...
View ArticleThe Ilsa Principle
In my research, I’ve observed patterns in the past that we still see today. Cover of Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk For instance, in the 1830s, a woman named Maria Monk turned up in New York City....
View Article“People Who Like Kinky Sex Are Just Bad In Bed”: Evie Magazine and the Raw...
The sexual dynamics of the American conservative resurgence have been fascinating over the last few years. Evie Magazine is a conservative women’s magazine first published in 2019. Its aesthetics and...
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