Gloria's Oversexed Mind

FOUND: Love Powder

Delightful cupid and curlicues, noble profile and lavish dress, plus a sprinkling of French, the language of love, in this classic Victorian advertisement for a face powder. Dated: 1890.

Source: Historyworld

Green Vibes

So let's say the end of the world has arrived. The planet lies in smoking ruins. Everyone you know and love is gone. You're all alone, Ms. Thing. Your food and water supply are dwindling rapidly. The grid's collapsed. No phones, no lights, no tv, no radio, no Internet, not even any batteries left to power small appliances.

If you're anything like me, right about now you're thinking, "Holy crap, no batteries!! How EVER will I be able to have an orgasm tonight?"

Never fear: Earth Angel is here.

The world's first 100% eco-friendly wind-up sex toy is here! The Earth Angel vibrator is made from recycled materials and you don't need to buy batteries for it! Just crank the handle for 4 minutes for 30 minutes of intensely orgasmic vibrating pleasure.

LINK

Thanks to Mike R. for this.

Now, let's all start singing, "Green, green, my clit is green, green is my clit, it isn't obscene...."

Cupcakes licking muffins

From the guy who brought you a calendar of shirtless Mormon men (and got excommunicated for it), comes a calendar of Mormon mommies doing oral on pastries. I think this guy's hilarious and applaud his efforts to bring his Church into the 21st century . Besides, you'd think that any religious which put so much emphasis on procreation might be willing to admit that (shhhh!) people enjoy sex.

Hot Mormon moms are posing in sexy shots for a calendar to be released in June.

Chad Hardy, founder of Mormons Exposed, is the calendar's publisher. "It's very sexy, but at the same time it's so cute," Hardy said of the 2010 calendar which features the Mormon MILFs alongside muffin recipes.

Hardy was excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in response to his male version of the calendar, entitled "Men on a Mission."

Sexy Mormon Moms Lick Muffins, Anger Church Officials

Vindaloo and fetish too

Thanks to Mark S. for this link to an awesome article in today's NY Times about a small factory in Pakistan that is producing some of the BDSM toys we enjoy here in the US.

KARACHI, Pakistan — In Pakistan, a flogger is known only as the Taliban’s choice whip for beating those who defy their strict codes of Islam.

But deep in the nation’s commercial capital, just next door to a mosque and the offices of a radical Islamic organization, in an unmarked house two Pakistani brothers have discovered a more liberal and lucrative use for the scourge: the $3 billion fetish and bondage industry in the West.

Their mom-and-pop-style garment business, AQTH, earns more than $1 million a year manufacturing 2,000 fetish and bondage products, including the Mistress Flogger, and exporting them to the United States and Europe....

Recently, when a curious employee inquired about the purpose of the sleep sack, a sleeping bag-like product used in certain kinds of bondage, she was told it was a body bag for the American military in Iraq.

Adnan Ahmed, a former air traffic controller who is now AQTH’s chief operating officer, said the items were undergarments. When asked if he considered a red-hot puppy mask an undergarment, he had a straightforward, but honest reply: “No. It’s just for joking.”

Still, word of the business has at times escaped. Last year four “powerful guys” from a conservative Muslim group threatened to burn down the factory if it was not closed within a week. The brothers calmly explained that it was merely a business, and that the items were not used in Pakistan. The next day they bribed a local Islamic political organization to ensure their safety.

Pakistanis Find Success in Fetish Business

FOUND: Skanky 70s Sextravaganza

A parade of porn posters from the 70s, when filmmakers were so inspired by the sweet innocence of the Age of Free Love that they spewed out one skanky smut film after another.

Ah, the 70s. When date rape was hot.

And roofies even hotter.

When women wore bikinis to play charades while men wore fishing nets...

...and strip shows were held at old age homes.

A time when sassy bitches who raped men still ended up submitting to them.

Speaking of women raping men, looks like that cassock's about to be torn off.

And then there was 70s stuff that just couldn't be explained. Like why underwear was drawn onto some girls or why body painting was so hideous. Or even why people liked shag rugs. Can someone explain that to me?

I wonder who was in charge of drawing in the underwear. The producer? The director? Their bored children?

I really don't know what to say about this movie's title, except I'm glad her pussy wasn't chartreuse because that would be where puke lives.

FOUND: The Strange feminist rumblings of the 70s

By the 1970s, women could still be unsuspecting victims of lust, particularly when their nipples were visible in sheer halter tops.

Or they could be shameful women, the kind who travel a lot. Huh? I think back to the legendary promiscuity of airline stewardesses and wonder: is this because people assumed that women were sluts if they didn't stay home to bake cookies and clean the house?

The image of women as fighter and predator started to get popular, inspired by the Women's Power movement of the 70s. Of course, not all women were ferocious: most still remained victims. Only now they were victims not just of men but of other women. Or to put it in feminist parlance of the day: powerful women were just emulating the patriarchy. Darn them.

But every now and again, The New Woman -- bigger, bolder, braver than ever before -- came along to give a man what he deserved.

FOUND: Sex films of the Sleazy 60s

Yep, here it is: the radical concept that shook up the 60s.  Americans began to acknowledge that women are horny too.  No longer was it just the random Jezebel who destroyed a man through temptation. There were horny sluts all over the place! Yee-haw. Thank you Masters & Johnson, and Alfred Kinsey, whose collective efforts led to the revelation of this shocking truth.

Not just horny, but wildly lascivious.

(Aside: according to IMDB, the Tony Orlando listed in the credits below had a short career in the mid-60s as a porn director/writer and then vanished. Interestingly, those exact years are missing from the bio for singer Tony Orlando, of "Tony Orlando and Dawn" fame. Hmm.)

Now men were the victims and women the hungry she-goddesses intent on devouring their flesh. Oh yummy!

Equally intriguing is this poster for a movie that looks to be about gay leathersex but which, according to IMDB, is a hetero sexploitation flic. So why does this look like a really bad imitation of a Tom of Finland poster?

FOUND: Sin, ca. 1955

Today will be a day of awesomely kitschy-cum-sleazy vintage movie posters, starting with this one that came out the year I was born. "With poison, power and pagan passion she ruled a dynasty of degradation!" The story of my life! Well, minus the poison and paganism.

FOUND: Liz with a crop

Looking like the quintessential dominatrix in this still from an unknown movie.

Update: readers have written to say it's from "Reflections in a Golden Eye"

FOUND: Giddy-up, pony boy

Long before there was a Sybian, there was....

Published in 1897

source: Historyworld

Breaking News! Men and Women are from Earth! OOH

Yay! Finally we have scientific proof of something that has always been obvious to everyone with even the slightest lick of common sense: men and women are probably equally horny. Eureka! Next thing you know, scientists will prove that women enjoy sex too. I can't hardly wait.

Chuck that nonsense about “men are from Mars, women are from Venus.” Here on Earth, the sexes play the mating game with a flexible set of rules. A new study suggests that scientists should abandon the idea that males evolved to be promiscuous and females to be selective.

Sex Roles Lose Their Universal Appeal

Pardon my bitterness. But as someone who never bought the propaganda that men and women belong to different species or come from different planets; who's never seen any evidence to suggest that men "care more" about sex than women; much less any evidence that men are sluttier than women or more capable of promiscuity, it does get in my craw that we actually need studies like these.

But clearly we do. We need this study and hundreds more just like it to fight the age-old propaganda against sex that has emanated with a reeking stench from many of our most venerable institutions. Hopefully, through science, culture can begin to dig its way from under the shitpile of historic misunderstandings about sex and sex roles that oppress us today.

Dagger don't

I'm a little behind on this strange news from Jamaica, where men have been breaking their penises left and right. According to a story that popped up in their local media a couple of weeks ago,

KINGSTON - Representatives of some hospitals revealed that more men have been fracturing their penises in recent months than any other time in Jamaica.

Checks with urologists in some of the country's major hospitals have revealed that the "noticeable increase" in the number of cases where men fracture their members is largely attributed to the men's obsession with daggerin', aka rough sex.

LINK

Browsing around, it seems that people are blaming the upsurge in fractured willies on local music which celebrates not just rough sex but deliberately misogynistic rape-like sex. Perhaps not that surprising in Jamaica's violently vicious homophobic culture, where hatred against anyone and anything that is not aggressively macho is not merely accepted but nurtured and idealized.

Daggering's a new term to me so I browsed for a definition. Its specific meaning is to thrust the penis in and out as if one was knifing the vagina with the penis. Ergo all the breakage: since he's entering anew every time, in fast thrusts, the man may miss the vagina or enter at a bad angle and...well, pop goes the weasel.

Date rapist thwarted!

Fabulusciously strange films of the 30s and 40s

Found four great vintage movie posters for 30s and 40s shockers. The films pretend to decry immorality while cashing in on it. Ah, America!

First, from a 1933 jewel featuring Betty Grable.

From 1938: even as people were horrified by the mere idea of child brides, they were also throbbing over it.

By the 40s, King Kong apparently had a profound effect on some people's sexual fantasies.

Shouldn't the warning about fainting have gone on the ape sex movie? This one's from 1945.

p.s. to Florida proposal

A few afterthoughts.

First, I was half joking in my "modest proposal" of earlier. I'm not expecting any BDSM activists to try and hook up with their local Fundies. On the other hand...it would be pretty fucking awesome if you did.

I also want to add that I have no idea what Pastor Cadle preaches. I'm just defending his right to preach it. I will assume that a typical small Christian church probably emphasizes monogamy, marriage and heterosexuality as the only acceptable model. Though that point of view is 180 degrees away from my own views, I will still defend the right of anyone to believe whatever they want to believe, as long as they don't oppose my right to believe the things I believe.

I also feel that it behooves everyone who cares about seeing sexuality finally released from the kind of medieval thinking that's held a death-grip on this topic should, indeed, welcome any and all new, candid dialogue on human sexuality.  Doesn't matter whether you agree or not: change can only happen one step at a time.  If a church group is willing to talk about sex for pleasure and fun today, there's no telling what they may be ready to talk about tomorrow.

Great sex is bad for Florida school so I propose....

Thanks to Li for pointing me to this.

When I first glanced at it, I thought, uh-oh, talking about sex + elementary school = disaster. But the more I think about it -- well, why *should* an elementary school be off-limits for a clearly adults-only discussion of adult sexuality? It's not as if they are inviting the elementary school students to their worship. I'm sure the school routinely hosts other events which for parents, teachers, and other adults.

Seems that Pastor Cadle is just trying to minister to his people's needs. Isn't that what good pastoring is all about? Why is some bureaucratic risk assessor the final word on this?

MELBOURNE, Fla. – A church giving sermons about sex may have to find a new home. Brevard Public School District's risk-management department has threatened to boot New Hope Church out of Sherwood Elementary because of a worship series titled "Great Sex for You."

Church leaders mailed 25,000 fliers, asking residents "Is Your Sex Life A Bore?" The three-week program kicked off inside the school auditorium. Pastor Bruce Cadle had said the Christian church has been "shamefully silent" on the taboo topic.

Mark Langdorf, the director of risk management, says the mailers generated complaints, were not appropriate for elementary school children and shouldn't be used to advertise the sermon in the school.

Langdorf says the church's lease contract is under review.

Church giving 'great sex' sermons might get booted

Now, let's say you're the kind of person (as I am) who is generally pissed off to see any examples of Church and State in bed together. Technically, Langdorf should be kicking out every group that worships in his district's schools. Because, you know, um, it's illegal. But lets close our eyes to that minor issue because it is, in fact, a commonplace throughout small-town USA that government facilities are used by church groups. And since it is so common, why does a bureacrat get to decide what kind of sermons and topics are permissible? Did he poll the entire community to find out how many people were opposed to the worship v. how many support it? What if the only people who support it are the pastor's flock: don't they have the right to worship as they please?

Seriously, if it isn't appropriate for a worship group to talk about their concerns in the safe setting of a school, where would it be appropriate? At the local leather bar? Say, a lightbulb just went off!

I have a proposal. You KNOW a leather person somewhere would be more than happy to welcome these folks in so they can get a little sexual education. Maybe Pastor Cadle needs to think outside the box on this. Where can anyone -- regardless of orientation or predilection find acceptance? In the BDSM community, of course! The pansexual BDSM/leather community is hands-down more friendly to anyone who wants to have candid, sex-positive dialogue than ANY other known community. So maybe church groups who want to have a little God-loving honest conversation about sex need to start looking into renting space at their local leather bars and BDSM clubs.

Pastor Cadle, come on over to the darkside. That's where you'll find the enlightenment.

FOUND: 1920s school discipline

...and speaking of historic BDSM erotica, here's a lovely French postcard ca. 1920s for all you naughty people with school days fantasies. The details are flawless, and the girl in knickers is quite the little minx.

FOUND: Historic portrait of femdoms, ca. 1890s

While browsing eBay for a fun post I'll do later today, I discovered this wondrous photographic morsel of SM history: a late 19c portrait of three dominatrices in equestrian gear.

Large Cabinet Photo - Early German Dominatrix

3 German Doms: Klara Konig, Emma Bajeul, and Eliese Konig

presenting the Avante Garde Edge of Equestrian Fashion, with black leather knee boots, short skirts, riding crops and tight fitting jackets, Circa 1890's

Additional Background Information: These 3 women were performers in the leading Avant Garde theaters in Germany and Austria during the 1890's. In particular, the Peoples Theater (Die Freie Volksbühne) in Berlin and the Ronacher in Vienna were hotbeds for the radical thinkers and underground artists at the forefront of the feminist, sexual liberation and socialists movement.

Looking at the vendor's spotless eBay feedback and meticulous research on other antiquities, I am willing to believe he is accurate on the above details. Any historians or researchers out there ever come across these names before?

Those weird vanillas

Do vanilla people have any idea how kinky they really are? I mean, seriously. WTF? This is so wrong. Only submissives should have the right to look this redonkulous.

Vixen Reindeer Tiara and Collar - Christmas Costumes - eBay (item 250407278079 end time May-14-09 16:10:52 PDT)

FOUND: Victoria's best secret

The spectacular former Victoria's Secret model, and Danish beauty queen, Helena Christensen, looking (deliberately, I presume) as madly sexy as Josephine Baker.

photograph by Peter Lindbergh

No facts, please, we're married

What does it take to have a successful long-term marriage? According to this new study, a giant wallop of denial.

In a study to be published in July in the journal Psychological Science, Northwestern University psychologist Daniel Molden and colleagues were interested in the possible differences between the way dating and married couples see each other. They asked 92 dating couples and 77 married couples to complete questionnaires about satisfaction with their relationship, and not surprising, marriage changes things.

Everyone, married or dating, thinks the best partner is one who acts as a cheering section and brings out our best. But that sort of relationship only translates into a truly happy marriage when the partner seems to accept real commitment and helps in the day-to-day obligations of life as a couple.

The surprise here is not the switch from a focus on "me" to a focus on "us," as anyone who has gone from the first blush of love to picking up someone else's underwear off the floor knows to be true. What really stands out is the idea that satisfaction within any relationship is based on perception rather than actual fact, and therein lies the rub of not only love, but also of living with someone on intimate terms.

Denial Can Bring Marital Bliss

FOUND: vintage girl gang movie

Nothing? Really? Not even at Hollywood censorship laws? Ha. The poster's probably about as hot as it gets but gee, what swell fantasy fodder for everyone who ever secretly craved to be subdued by a gang of sexy femmes. (Which, apparently, was enough people to fill movie theatres, or at least drive-ins.)

Out out damn hyprocrites: the Frank Rule rules

Oh FUN!

Today's Gawker reports that a new movie will be outing anti-gay rights Republicans who are, themselves, gay. Following the Frank Rule that "the right to privacy should not be a right to hypocrisy...people who want to demonize other people shouldn’t then be able to go home and close the door, and do it themselves."

The movie retells the wonderful Larry Craig story and apparently really nails Florida governor Charlie Crist, who had to marry a woman because he was dumb enough to think he'd be McCain's VP. It is called OUTRAGE because a descriptive non-'generic political documentary' title doesn't look as good on a poster, or something. (Oh, wait, we get it now. Clever!) It screened at Tribeca and everything! It is directed by Kirby Dick, who did the pretty awesome This Film Is Not Yet Rated...

....some of the film's targets beyond the well-known Larry Craig...include:

Virginia Rep. Ed Schrock, former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey, Mark Foley, former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, 2004 Bush/Cheney campaign manager Ed Mehlman, former GOP National Field Director Dan Gurley, former Arizona congressman Jim Kolbe, former Louisiana congressman Jim McCrery, and current congressman David Dreier...And Shep Smith!

It's Outing Season Again

FOUND: McQueen and Madonna

Some vintage celebrity eye-candy, in images that still look awfully tasty.

Steve McQueen, as a young hottie. I'll guess ca. early 60s. The dude had ATTITUDE.

photographer: Roy Schatt

This next one totally charmed me. A practically fetal Madonna ca. 1979.

photographer: Martin Schreiber

Milestone in transgender rights: hate crime conviction

An historic legal precedent was just set in Colorado, where the killer of a transwoman was prosecuted under a new law declaring violence against transgendered people -- because they are transgendered-- a hate crime.

A man who claimed he snapped before killing a transgender woman was swiftly convicted of first-degree murder and a hate crime Wednesday for savagely beating the woman with a fire extinguisher.

Allen Andrade, 32, of Thornton, was sentenced to life in prison without parole after being convicted of killing Angie Zapata, 18. The jury deliberated for just two hours before finding Andrade guilty.

The case was believed to be the first prosecution under Colorado's bias-crime statute for a crime involving a transgender person. Gay rights activists hope publicity from the case would pressure Congress to add sexual orientation and gender identity to a federal hate crime law.

Colo. man convicted of murdering transgender woman

Also, as noted on CNN:

The verdict was hailed by gay and transgender rights groups.

"This is a landmark decision," said Mindy Barton, the legal director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Colorado.

The case has become a rallying point for supporters of the transgender community, who have held vigils and launched Web sites in remembrance of Zapata.

They are calling for the inclusion of transgender people in hate crime statutes across the country and at the federal level. Currently, 11 states and the District of Columbia recognize transgender people in their hate crime laws.

CNN link

To learn more about the victim, and see photos of her, visit the Angie Zapata Tribute site, created by those who love her and want to keep her memory alive. Below, a photo of Ms. Zapata from the site.

Age of consent is the right age for birth control

A happy sign of changing times. The FDA has decided to allow women aged 17 and older to be able to buy Plan B. It's about time. The Bush Administration played political games with this issue, and would not allow girls who reach the age of consent (17 in most, if not all, states) to get this means of preventing unwanted pregnancy. If you ask me, any kid is who is legally old enough to have sex is old enough to get all the birth control she wants, without having to get permission from her doctor or parents.

Seventeen-year-olds will be able to buy the "morning-after" emergency contraceptive without a doctor's prescription, a decision that conservatives denounced as a blow to parental supervision of teens but that women's groups said represents sound science.

The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it would accept, not appeal, a federal judge's order that lifts Bush administration restrictions limiting over-the-counter sales of "Plan B" to women 18 and older. U.S. District Judge Edward Korman ruled last month in a lawsuit filed in New York that President George W. Bush's appointees let politics, not science, drive their decision to restrict over-the-counter access.

FDA OKs 'morning-after' pill for 17-year-olds

More evidence against Boston man held for sex-worker murders

Despite the tearful denials of his friends and family, it's looking more and more like the police caught the right man: he was keeping trophies, in that great classic tradition of all psychopathic serial killers.

This guy sounds so chillingly like a young Ted Bundy. There's no doubt if the cops hadn't caught him, he'd have kept killing. My heart goes out to the friends and families of the victims. Every new detail must cut like a knife. The only comfort is knowing he's been caught and hopefully will never be allowed to hurt another woman again.

A Boston University medical student accused of robbing women who advertised erotic services on Craigslist, killing one of them, had items belonging to both victims in his apartment, a law enforcement official said Wednesday.

AP source: Craigslist suspect had victims' items.

Love at first sight

Polar bears Bill, right, and Lara react, at their first meeting, at the Zoom Erlebniswelt zoo, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Friday, April 17, 2009.

LINK

FOUND: Out-whipped

Still from unknown movie.

One can only hope he is in for some serious trouble

FOUND: Gayest vintage ad ever