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Guerilla barbers of the French Resistance
From the Old Erotic Art Tumblr: This image, presumably the cover of an old men’s adventure magazine from the ’50s or ’60s, is puzzling initially. Why the shaving brush and scissors? Guerilla barbers?...
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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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“Bad Habits” My article on Maria Monk and her Awful Disclosures
My article on the strange case of Maria Monk and her connections to anti-Catholic propaganda and the nun as a fetish archetype has been published in Maisonneuve magazines 10th anniversary issue....
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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 It includes some unpublished photos from the same shoot.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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1930 fetish magazine “Legs and Attitudes”
Gloria Brame posted scans from “Legs and Attitudes“, a leg fetish magazine published in July 1930, Paris. In 1930, women’s legs and lower bodies were a relatively recent discovery, having been hidden...
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Vintage fetish magazine Fads and Fancies
The Vintage Sleaze blog has the story behind the Fads and Fancies fetish magazine, published in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and its signature artist known as Janine, actually a woman by the name of...
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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...
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Nazi 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...
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London 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...
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Fifty 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...
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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...
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Penthouse 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...
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Playboy 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....
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The 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...
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The 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....
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“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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