Gloria's Oversexed Mind

Think of me in the garden, fondling fruit

Gender Play: vintage amateur photo

Halloween Party? Stage show?  Behind the scenes at a drag ball?  Or fun and games at the Senior Center? Your guess is as good as mine.

Gender Fluid: Butch and Femme, Paris, 1932

Classic 1932 photo by the great Parisian photographer, Georges Brassai, of a lesbian couple at the infamous "Le Monocle," owned by Lulu of Montparnasse.

Gender Fluid, Female-to-Male: antique photos

A batch of beauteous finds from the early 20th century.

LGBT PULP-O-RAMA: queerly 50-60s

LGBT PULP-O-RAMA: 50s-60s Gay Male Fiction

LGBT PULP-O-RAMA: 50s-60s lesbian fiction

Can I get that with a reach around?

A real ad from a realtor who has learned to love his unfortunate name, via www.boingboing.net

Prison Ink

From a rogue's gallery of prison tattoos on wackyowl.com

Bad Bellies

From a rogue's gallery of ridiculous belly tats on www.oddee.com.

Expect the Unexpected

Think of Me, preparing for tomorrow's erotic adventure

Adult Reading: vintage fetish/SM publications

Found a few more intriguing little relics of the world of BDSM before we called it BDSM. These are from the late 1960s-1970s

Oh yessssssssss.....we like naughty

Photo by Eric Kroll.

Oh nooooooooooo....someone(s) was naughty

Pulp Out, Perversion In: vintage SM/fetish books

Found a bunch of books listed together and had to click when I read their titles. Aha. A cache of books with enough SM suggestiveness to deserve a spot on the blog. I was intrigued to discover, though, that while the book-covers were the kind of thing you saw in the backshelves of creepy candy stores stuffed among dusty True Confessions and well-handled transvestite magazines, these books were crammed with "exclusive illustrations" (i.e., pornographic images), both drawn (mainly by Bill Ward) and photographed. First the covers, then some of the inside materials.

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Short Tribute to Eric Stanton, FemDom Erotica 3

Cover art by Stanton.

Short Tribute to Eric Stanton: FemDom Erotica 2

Short Tribute to Eric Stanton, FemDom Erotica 1

One of my favorite vintage BDSM illustrators, ERIC STANTON (1926-1999) created wildly wicked, often hilarious, femdom comix.

Starting off with this early Stanton ad, in which he drew himself chained to his easel.

Depression Era spanking: antique photo

Classic.

Cruel Commerce: child spanking in vintage advertising

Oh how I loved the 20th century, that halycon time when child abuse was hilarious. Or maybe not.

Art Deco Fetish Glamour

Special thanks to p. for sharing this fetish ephemera from the 1930s.

Delicate Depravity and Vintage Debauchery

Featuring many odd and wonderful fetish/BDSM-oriented treats.

Think of Me, puzzling things out

B-Movie Posters: Hard Men

B-Movie Posters: Hussies!

B-Movie Posters: Vengeful Women

SM Vocabulary Builder: Roman Holiday

As I was getting the Italian show ready, I googled the term "Roman Holiday" to be sure I'd used it correctly in a first draft.   I remembered the expression from the title of an old Audrey Hepburn movie, and thought it implied a lively, naughty romp.  Errrr...not quite.  Turns out it's an approximate English equivalent for the German term "schadenfreude," with a special little spicy connotation of enjoying not only someone's misery but their degradation and abuse.

Roman holiday n. 1. Enjoyment or satisfaction derived from observing the suffering of others. 2. A violent public spectacle or disturbance in which shame, degradation, or physical harm is intentionally inflicted on one person or group by another.

 3. entertainment or pleasure that depends on the suffering of others [from Byron's poem Childe Harold (IV, 141)]

via www.thefreedictionary.com

This term deserves to be revived, both because it's plain English (and not some hard-to-spell, awkward to pronounce foreign word) and also because it has that extra little bite from its gladatorial context.  Besides, what a great addition to the sadomasochist's lexicon.

Possible SM usages:

"I'm not a sadist.  I'm just enjoying a Roman Holiday."

"Announcing the Roman Holiday theme party. Come for the spectacle!  Come harder for the pain and humiliation!"

Italian Beauties, erotic photos - last set

Italian Beauties, erotic photos - 3