Gloria's Oversexed Mind

FOUND: Oral Acrobats NSFW NSFW NSFW, seriously, nsfw

Unless, of course, you work in the same field as me.

Anyway, I found several exceedingly rare explicit photos from the 1920s on eBay over the weekend, and will post the others tomorrow. This one was too interesting not to blog right away. She's a spry minx, isn't she?

FOUND: deux gentilles filles

Sweet and sexy hug in this vintage postcard from the Biederer studios, Paris 1920s.

Open call: GLBT Arts Festival in NYC

My friends at the Fresh Fruit Arts Festival in NYC just set a date for their 2010 event and have issued their annual call for participants.

Yes, Fresh Fruit is a colorful and healthy snack. But it is also an inclusive International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Cultural & Arts Festival held in Manhattan each July! All Out Arts' and New Village Productions' Fresh Fruit Festival feeds the spiritual and artistic souls of the LGBT and artistic communities.Fresh Fruit's mission is to share the LGBT community's unique perspective, creativity and diversity and to build links between the LGBT, local, national and international artistic communities as well as to the general public.

Visit www.freshfruitfestival.com for details and an application to participate in the 2010 event.

Bengal's boner

Thanks to Bruce for sending the link to this perplexing career move.

In addition to being one of the league's best wide receivers, Chad Ochocinco is also an entrepreneur. The latest proof: during HBO's "Hard Knocks" this summer, he made reference to developing prophylactics. And on Friday he revealed the prototypes via Twitter.

via backporch.fanhouse.com

Erotographica Presents: Edvard Munch

Time again for my favorite feature of the week. The youtube video we prepared for you this time is devoted to erotic paintings and nudes by Norwegian symbolist artist, Edvard Munch. Hope you enjoy, and that you like my choice of music for this one. Long ago and far away, I dreamed of being a concert pianist. This Mendelssohn selection from "Songs Without Words" was one of the pieces I performed in my teens.

If you can't see the video above, via watch it now on youtube.com.

Blog-Topical Books

From now through the holidays, I'll include a list of all the blog-related books I've recommended for the week as gift ideas.

Here's what I've recommended for the last week of November 2009:

Post-Industrial Barbiedollatry

Religious people believe that an infallible God made everyone.  At the same time, they rail against people who weren't made the way they were made.  If God creates every human, and does everything for a reason, why do religious people get so irrational about those God created to be gay, lesbian, kinky, trans or bi?  If they believe in an all-powerful God, why do they reject His variations? 

I think attitudes towards human differences and variations were fundamentally different before industrialization.  Industrialization created a new phenomenon: the ability to reproduce things that were identical down to the last detail.  When all products depended on individuals to hand-craft them, variation was the norm.  Just as no two quality Persian rugs will ever be identical -- because normal human labor inevitably produces variations in stitchings -- pre-industrialized products were expected to show nominal variations, even when carved by the same carpenter using all the same tools and materials.

Nowadays, factories and manufacturing devices are only as good as their ability to eliminate variations from products.  We all want the exact features, working the exact same way, as the next person gets.  We want predictability, because it is the best guarantee of reliability.  It satisfies our competitive urge; it makes us feel equal.  There's nothing wrong with those feelings either.

But somewhere along the way the whole notion of variations as a natural part of life was misplaced.  In 1790 when a little girl received a doll, its facial expression, clothing, and other aspects were likely one-of-a-kind, even if the doll was professionally made in a factory which created numerous examples of a specific model.   Today, if you give a kid a doll whose features are different from her friends' Barbies, you can expect to hear her bawl that it isn't good enough or it isn't REAL.  We have all come to believe that there are states of perfection to which all things must adhere in order to be "real."  We pay higher and higher prices for the privilege of owning that parcel of reality.  In the end, what we are really paying for is the illusion that we are exactly like other people, because we have all the same products they have.

Has this psycho-social transition affected more than economics but even the belief systems of the religious?  Have they bought so far into industrialized society that they see people as widgets, with God the foreman, consistently disappointed that His identical creatures go to hell the minute they're outside the factory door?

Classic: Finley by Leibovitz

Controversial performance artist and sexual revolutionary Karen Finley shot by controversial lesbian photographer Annie Leibovitz.

Please note: no yams were harmed in the making of this photograph or any other Finley art. That said, I highly recommend you visit Karen Finley's official website where's doing some mighty fine things with honey.

Desirable objects: original kinky art for the holidays

As is my wont at this season, I'll be making some recommendations on holiday gifts for the sexually adventurous set.   And since the economy SUCKS, most suggestions will be of the low-budget variety.

One of the coolest ways to save money this season but still give someone a spectacular gift is by re-purposing or altering stuff you already have or things you can pick up on the cheap at a yard sale, thrift store or low-end retail shop.

If you've ever visited Etsy you know there are thousands of people out there who are selling stuff they simply modified. You'll find people who take plain hats and dress them up with trim, braids, or pins, or took a cheap purse and hand-painted them. If you have any craft skills whatever you can alter or modify virtually every decor item, and quite a lot of clothing too. If you're handier with power-tools than craft supplies, consider altering furniture or building something cool.

These days, there are so many craft supplies and do-it-yourself kits that even if you have two left hands you can find something you're good at.  A glue-gun works wonders too.  The key is to give yourself enough time to get it done. Put another way: START NOW. Also, don't get overly ambitious: budget your time carefully and put yourself on a crafting schedule. While others are at the malls fighting crowds, you could be merrily crafting kinky presents in the comfort of your own home.  Egg nog optional.

My first E-Z and inexpensive suggestion of the season is to gift your kinky friends with original dungeon decor in the form of hot and kinky wall art.

You can pick up original bondage photos and vintage postcards on eBay for reasonable prices.  Once in your possession, you may manipulate it into art of all types: blow it up to poster size and mount it on foamboard; photocopy it for use as a notebook cover or make a mousepad; colorize it in PhotoShop and do an Andy Warhol-type set of copies.  See how easy?

   

Depending on your own creativity, your pervy friends will think you're a genius if you present them with a one-of-a-kind piece of SM erotic art history.   Or use the image as is and do something fun with the frame -- bits of chain, rope, barbed wire, etc., can transform a cheap frame from the dollar store into an original work of BDSM art.

To get you started, here are a few eBay vendors who specialize in rare erotic photographs and postcards.

Chambre Close: Vintage French postcards

Lusitania: Vintage nude postcards

Xotique: Original vintage BDSM pictures

Postcard Pigs: Risque gay pictures

FOUND: Date App

Vintage postcard. Now where's the one you fill out for an SM partner?

FOUND: Trojan Horse

FOUND: Butt Muscle

The latest greatest male masturbatory device

Is your best male friend/partner looking for something to keep him busy when that booty call isn't answering the phone?

via fleshbot.com

Is it a blowjob? A handjob? No, putting your junk in the RealTouch is like fucking the Matrix, the rabbit hole lined with shockingly personal conveyor belts and the moneymakers of various Jennas, Toris, and Brees at the other end.

Consider the best porn movies which are, let's say, a concerted effort between performers, videographers, and directors to get you off. The RealTouch adds yet another participant to your masturbation's open marriage: a hard-working haptic encoder.

The RealTouch device is slightly bigger than that squash you devoured yesterday, and far more interesting to put your penis in. Opposite your penis, a USB cable connects the RealTouch hardware to your computer where, logged in to your account at RealTouch.com, you can access hundreds of scenes specially coded for use with your new conversation starter.

3 Ways of Looking at Thanksgiving

Celebrate Thanksgiving the old-fashioned way!

"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land."

--Jon Stewart

Give thanks for the wee animals

Every Thanksgiving, It’s the Same Thing

Aunt Leticia drinks all the cooking sherry, Grandpa and Cousin Harold argue politics, Cousin Wendell tells us about the latest cult he just joined, and I get stuck babysitting Aunt Brunhilde’s kids, Rollo and Yappo. That’s it, man; I’m outta here.

via cuteoverload.com

Be careful out there today

via i39.tinypic.com

O! the happy couples, tra la la

A funky photographic ode to loving couples....

The ones who kiss

The ones who dance

The ones who do acrobatics

And even the ones who cheat. Oops.

Sex offender widget

I was updating my google news page the other day and browsed their nifty "gadget" page, hoping to find some cool new widget to take my infomania ito a new level.  I didn't expect to find one to Locate Sex Offenders in your area.

Um...assuming it isn't a dating service....wtf!

FOUND: Sexually ambiguous flirts

Two curious old naughty postcards, possibly from the same studio, ca. 1908. The costumes are beautiful and perplexing. I believe the wide-brimmed hat signifies the male in these equations.

Bondage by Barney's

"Love is Blind" blindfold listed for $125 in Barney's new catalogue.

The end has come.

via jezebel.com

Found: Photography by Jürgen Baldiga

Jürgen Baldiga
1959-1993

www.baldiga.com

A Modest Proposal: Let's Ban Heterosexuality

As most people know, I'm heterosexual. I'm a poly, queer, sadomasochist, dominatrix pervert het, but I am het. How do I know? Well... I like the penis. There. I said it. I like the penis. I can't help it. I just like it. I like the stuff it does and even when it just sort of lies there like an overcooked brussels sprout, I still like it. It's so cute. That perky head popping up. Hello, little man!

But when you think about it, isn't it obvious by now that many of the world's greatest ills are caused by heterosexuals? Instead of beating the same dead horse and trying to "cure" gay people or make bisexuals choose one side of the fence and all the other moral contortions this culture attempts to impose....what if we just banned heterosexuality? Maybe not a permanent ban, but at least a moratorium. The moment I thought of it, a list of immediate benefits flowed from my skull.

Eight Compelling Reasons to Ban Heterosexuality

1. An end to overpopulation. How's about we stop all those irresponsible hets from breeding endless streams of children they can't care for, leaving it to the rest of us to pick up the tab? Lower population growth for the planet and a lower tax bill for the rest of us. Wow! Awesome!

2. An end to unwanted pregnancy. At long last, the lifers and the choicers could live in harmony: no heterosexual fucking = no "accidental" pregnancies = no dreadful decisions about whether or not to abort = NO PROBLEM! It IS the dawning of the age of Aquarius!

3. An end to teenage promiscuity. Sure, there are some sexually active gays and lesbians out there but without doubt it's the hets steaming up the place with their crazed hetero hormones. Wouldn't you, as a parent, sleep better at night if you didn't have to worry that "sleep-over" was teen-age code for orgy?

4. A precipitous drop in the spread of STDs. Need I say more? Heterosexuals are contaminating each other like there's no tomorrow. And we get to foot a part of the bill for their disregard for or ignorance about safe sex.

5. A precipitous drop in sex crimes. Misconceptions to the contrary, the person most likely to be a sex criminal is a heterosexual. Rapists, violent sadists, and molesters are overwhelmingly heterosexual.

6. A precipitous decline in intergenerational incest. Children are at most risk of abuse from heterosexual parents, grandparents, and other older het relatives. Same-sex molestation is known but far rarer, and when it occurs, most likely to occur among siblings.

7. The near-elimination of adultery. And, hey, if we keep preventing gays and lesbians from getting married, we could totally wipe out adultery. KEWL!

8. Less violence in general. When was the last time you saw two men fight it out over the same man? OK, maybe it was last week at a gay bar but you know what I'm saying. Of all the stupid shit that hets do, fighting and killing either their opposite-sex partners and/or fighting and killing competitors for their o-s partners has to be the stupidest. And let us not forget all those people showing up on Forensic Files inter alia who thought murder was a better solution than divorce. You dumb hets, when will you ever learn? Never? Then this ban is for you!

Catholic Church sex policies, or Exodus, stage right

Thanks to Leigh for sending me this utterly infuriating story. I mean UTTERLY! Like most sane therapists, I have railed against the charlatanism of "gay cures" for years. Homosexuality is not a disease! It's not a mental illness! Cures are quackery!  You can't "cure" anyone of their sexual identity (be it gay, kinky, trans, etc.) because they aren't sick in the first place.  So-called gay cures are premised entirely on beliefs not on evidence.  Not only do such attempts consistently fail,  but when they do succeed they only succeed in teaching people how to live in denial.  People don't become less gay; they just become better sociopaths.

I would LOVE to do a health study of any of the "success stories" from Exodus or this new initiative by the Catholic Church. I'd bet my reputation that people who build their lives on the fairytale that one can be happy without being true to oneself will show a steep decline in their physical health. Fact: you cannot separate the mind from the body. Fact: whatever plagues the mind will ultimately take its toll on the body. Fact: the Vatican continues to move backwards at a time when the world is moving forward.

Psychologists around the globe have almost universally condemned ex-gay therapy programs -- rogue "treatment" sessions often sponsored by religious groups to try and change one's sexual orientation from LGBT to heterosexual. The American Psychological Association (APA) even adopted a resolution this past summer that said ex-gay therapy programs were inadequate and potentially dangerous, especially for the long-term mental health of those victimized by such programs.

It's just too bad that the Catholic Church isn't listening to the global health professional community. Case in point, take the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, which through its Office of Marriage and Family Life is supporting a type of ex-gay therapy program that asserts homosexuality is both treatable and preventable.

The program is called Courage, and it "ministers" to people who have same-sex attractions, as well as their loved ones. Part of that ministry includes drilling into peoples' brains that homosexuality is a mental disorder, that people in same-sex relationships will never find peace, and that people attracted to members of the same sex suffer from "sickness."

via gayrights.change.org

FOUND: Have some turkey with your butter

A creamy cultural relic from 1956.

"How to dominate a turkey"

This is SO wrong on so many levels...which is why I must blog it. Thanks to Gail for sharing this strange gem on FB.

FOUND: flirty turn-of-the-century femme

This lovely young woman with the endless tresses kicked up her heels in 1900.

Galugottasteponhishead

Why didn't anyone tell me there was a brand just for dominatrices?

FOUND: vintage spa and fitness postcards

Small collection of vintage postcards chronicling our forebears' fascination with spas, water cures, naturism and other pseudo-medical health crazes.

Unlike today's spa, where the emphasis is on beauty and relaxation, old-style spas were viewed as quasi-medical environments where the mostly wealthy patrons improved their vitality through exercise programs and specialized, sometimes bizarre, treatments -- including hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, colonics, devices to prevent masturbation, and pelvic massages to "relieve" feminine tension. Although most of these treatments are now viewed as quackery, physicians of the period heartily endorsed spas and sanitariums as wholesome adjuncts to health care. Many old-fashioned spas played up their clinical image and required staff to wear medical whites.

Ca. 1940s/50s spa treatments (origin unknown).

Turn-of-the-20th century French postcard, lampooning the 19th century craze for hydrotherapy.

"Greetings from Bad Bramstedt," known for its mineral springs, German, date unknown.

"Greetings from Moorbade," known for its mineral springs, Germany, ca. 1899.

Men building brawn with medicine balls, Germany 1925.

Sensual Rituals of Dance

A short selection of emotional dances and dancers. Your erotic interpretations will vary.