Inside Gloria's Mind

Ho Ho Ho, Glo Glo Glo

(shhh, I'm really on blog hiatus, but my talented friend Joe just dressed me up just in time to wish you Merry Christmas!!!)

Gloria's Holiday Goodbye: see you in January

As has been my habit the last several years, I'm taking a hiatus from the blog and email to focus on writing projects that have been on hold.  There's all kinds of stuff on my plate and I can't wait to dig in.

First: We're currently in negotiations to produce a Kindle/e-book edition of Different Loving (yay!) with two different publishers. I'll have a better idea of when the e-book will be available and who'll be doing it once my literary lawyer has finished browbeating everyone.  *polite cough*

Second: Readers may vaguely recall my babbling on about a new non-fiction book about sex that I've been working on. Well, volume one of new book (now known as "new trilogy" around here) is almost ready to go to the publisher.   Doing it as three volumes for reasons I will explain in detail come January, but "keeping the price low" is at the top of the list.  Can't give you a firm date yet, but with any luck, it will be out before Summer 2011. The 2011 blog will reflect my rabid devotion to this project. I'll fill you in as things progress, and will publish excerpts here. That's all I'll say about it for now, since I share the universal authorial paranoia about saying too much about a work before it's in print. But trust me, when the book is really a book, you won't be able to shut me up about it.

Also new in 2011 will be a brand-new landing page for my old (static) website. It's been YEARS since I've updated any content on gloriabrame.com, but thanks to the graphic genius of Ampola Creative (the shop that does my Erotographica videos for youtube), a live, smokin' hot, and, hopefully, better organized new face for my website will debut this January.   We'll also be publishing a new and improved therapy FAQ, with client testimonials and a revised rate schedule. 

Now a little gooey gushy globbiness before I go...I want to THANK YOU -- all my readers, all my commenters, all the kind people who send me great images, great links, and endless inspiration and motivation.  Thank you.  For reading me, for contributing your thoughts and correcting my mistakes, for making me laugh or grow pensive when you comment, for adding me to your lists, for caring about my opinions, and for coming along on this voyeuristic journey through my wacky mind.  It can get lonely in here sometimes, but with you by my side, the blog feels totally worthwhile. 

May your holidays be toasty and filled with joy.  May all your holiday wishes come true.  And may all your reunions be this sweet.

 

 

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Gloria's Vacation Rules: Blogging resumes on January 4th.   No email or phone replies until January 5 (except for emergencies and clients currently in treatment).  No new therapy clients until second week of January. 

You get the idea.  See you in January.

Gloria's Holiday Letter pt. 7: but now the end is here

 

Steel yourself. You're going to have to take it lying down.

Gloria's Holiday Letter pt. 6: all the happy naked lovers

Darling, don't forget all the beautiful people we've met. We love to see happy lovers.

Even when we don't quite get their scene.

Or why they make sex look so complicated. 

 

Whatever.   If they're happy, we're happy.  We don't judge. 

Gloria's Holiday Letter pt. 5: all the garden-variety nudes

Remember how much we love being naked together in nature?

 

 

Gloria's Holiday Letter pt. 4: all the LGBT/Queer/Leather History

You know how I feel about sex history, baby. I LOVES IT! I can't get me ENUFF of it! Sex history is human history. Because so much of LGBT/Queer/Leather history has been systematically destroyed and censored in the name of God and country, it feels particularly vital to preserve all we can of every photo, every painting, every document that proves that sexual diversity is and has always been normal.

It's a good spiritual practice to celebrate sexual pioneers  (below, poets Allen Ginsberg and his then-wife Peter Orlovsky in 1970's MOST unforgettable magazine cover).

 

And now, a long aside.

In one of my other lives, i.e., the poetic one, I interviewed Allen. Read this highly acclaimed interview here.

Actually, I interviewed Allen twice: once in the early 1990s and again after he'd been diagnosed with terminal cancer.  

Many ironies have accompanied the publication of my interview, which devoted considerable attention to the subject of censorship and its emotional tolls on society as a whole and artists in particular. The original magazine which commissioned it from me killed it because they balked at Allen's politics.   So the piece sat dormant in my files until a few years later when, while serving as an advisory editor at ELF magazine, my beloved publisher hounded me into re-interviewing him and allowing ELF to run an updated version.   The second interview was very difficult because he was so very ill by then, but ultimately Allen was so happy with it he selected it for an official anthology of his best interviews.

Allen died before the anthology was finalized.  A few months later, I received a grovelingly apologetic letter from the editor.  The publishers had kicked my interview out of the anthology...because they balked at (yes, you guessed it) MY sexual politics.   Even though Allen and I talked about SM in the interview and he laughingly admitted he probably was a sadomasochist, the editors just didn't want a sadomasochist represented in this posthumous tome.  

However, there's a final irony, and it's a happy one.  Because I posted the Ginsberg interview on my website in 1996, long before most poets knew there was an Internet,  the interview became a go-to resource when Ginsberg died.  CNN linked to it from their obituary, as did the BBC.   The link now resides at dozens of Ginsberg-related and Beat Poetry sites all over the Web, hopefully giving Allen's ideas a more global reach than the print anthology could.

Fuck censorship and long live the true sexual history of humanity.

(Of course, darling, I like to think that in my own small way, I fuck censorship with this blog every day.)

Gloria's Holiday Letter pt. 3: all the vintage perversion

We've shared our sensual love of legs and feet and heels and stockings. Such intimacy, darling.

We've talked about every fetish under the sun.

We've even gaped with delight to watch women from the 1940s enjoy the crisp crunch of a fresh cucumber.

Gloria's Holiday Letter pt. 2: all the sex news

Think of all the amazing stories you've read about here. From stories with beautiful endings (Maury was able to give Ms. Wheeler and Mr. Lorenc the news they both so dearly wished for: after 30 years, they will be celebrating the holidays as mother and son).

Two months ago, AOL News first reported on the reunion of bearded lady Vivian Wheeler and her son, Richard Lorenc, after 30 years of separation.

The story led to the taping on "Maury" and offered Wheeler and Lorenc a second reunion at the show's studio in Stamford, Conn.

Wheeler, who wears an 11-inch beard, had requested the appearance on the show seeking the DNA test to provide closure. She felt in her heart that Lorenc was her son, but wanted absolute certainty.

via www.aolnews.com

And OK. Maybe there have been some  news stories you kinda wished you'd missed.

An Oklahoma City man seeking sexual stimulation acted severely autistic and wore diapers to con baby sitters into caring for him, police reported.

Mark Anthony Richardson Jr.  

Richardson — who is 4 feet 9 inches tall — is being held in the Oklahoma County jail.

via newsok.com

Gloria's Winter Holiday Letter to You

Since your humble blogger cannot help but be DIFFERENT in loving, in writing, and in levels of depraved thought, I'm bidding you a fond holiday farewell this afternoon in intimate epistolary style, reminding you of the fun stuff we've looked at in 2010 and ending with some plans for the fun we'll be having when I resume blogging on January 4, 2011.   Enjoy this afternoon's wild kaleidoscope ride through all the themes that inhabit Gloria's Mind. -- ggb

 

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Darling, please don't be sad as a blob fish that I'm leaving.

 

We've traveled so many delightfully strange roads together.

 

We've gone places others only dream about.

We've laughed our way through silly times

 

We are like family.  A very special family.

 

 

Pervy Gifts to Give Men a Lift: Padding Santa

Apparently while I was still sleeping, Santa's twisted elves came up with these form-enhancing undies for men.  For sale on Amazon.

 

Men's Padded Rear Boxer Brief for Butt Lift

Gregg Homme Men's Push Up Padded Thong

Breaking Penis News: mystery cock rock found

Well shut my mouth.

via Penis-shaped rock discovered in Maryland

 

Leather Hall of Fame: 2011 Inductees

I'm honored to be a member of the Board of Governors of the LHOF, a Scene Community project devoted to honoring pansexual leather/fetish/BDSM history by selecting three individuals each year whose contributions to our Community shaped our growth.  We've just held our annual elections and the Board has just announced our new Inductees.  Official announcement below.

 

Bob Milne, Leonard Burtman and the Eulenspiegel Society Selected for Leather Hall of Fame

The Board of Governors of the Leather Hall of Fame (LHOF) is pleased to announce the 2011 inductees:  Bob Milne, Leonard Burtman and the Eulenspiegel Society. 

Bob Milne was one of the founders of the gay male SM movement in New York City.  Milne came to New York in 1950, before there were actual leather bars and when leather social life mainly consisted of private parties.  Milne was one of the main organizers of these parties and of the growing leather presence in gay bars in the 1950’s, such as Shaw’s on Third Avenue. 

Leonard Burtman was a publisher, filmmaker, photographer and writer, and is considered the father of the modern fetish publishing industry.  He created the first nationwide distribution for kink, the first large successful multi-enterprise kink business, and successfully defended his publications from legal attacks.  Burtman was the center of the American heterosexual kink community from the 1950’s – 1980’s.  In 1962 he produced “Satan in High Heels,” the first fetish film for a mainstream audience.  He contributed to the early development of dominatrix Monique von Cleef and publisher House of Milan.

The Eulenspiegel Society (“TES”) is the oldest and largest BDSM support and education group in the United States.  TES is a not-for profit corporation located in New York City promoting sexual liberation for all adults, particularly those who enjoy consensual BDSM.  TES provides classes, parties and events two to three times per week, all year long.  TES was founded by Pat Bond in 1971, and has been a vibrant organization ever since.

Under LHOF rules, only three inductees are chosen each year.  The two closest runners up in this year’s voting were writer and Kinsey researcher Sam Steward, and Mr. S. founder and community activist Alan Selby.  

LHOF was formed to honor and preserve the legacy of the extraordinary men and women who have significantly impacted and shaped the history of the Leather/BDSM communities worldwide since 1950.  Nominations can be made by anyone in the community, and the three inductees are selected by LHOF Board of Governors.  The previous inductees are Tom of Finland, Chuck Renslow, John Willie, Tony DeBlase, The Satyrs MC and Frank Olson and Don Morrison.  Learn more about all the inductees at the Leather Archives & Museum or at www.leatherhalloffame.com.

The Leather Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies and Brunch will be held at CLAW 10 at the Gateway Conference Center at the Hilton Garden Inn in Cleveland, OH on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 12 pm.  We invite all leather people to join us to celebrate and honor the lives and accomplishments of these great inductees.  Find out more and order your tickets now at www.clawinfo.org.

The End is Nigh

It's already begun. It's almost official. This morning when I shut off the ringer on my office phone I knew it was true: within hours, I will be on winter vacation. Gladness and joy shall reign the day!

Think of Me Wrapping Up for the Holidays

See you tomorrow, when I'll be wishing you sweet goodbyes to last you until 2011.

 

Musical Sex: vintage strip-tease LP's

Unbridled Passion! Love Divided! Guilt! Bondage! love, pulp-style

 

Girl Crazy! part 2

Ca. 1950s.

 

Ca. 1960s.

Girl Crazy! vintage 3-woman nude cuties

Found a great little stock of vintage images of women in lingerie posing as threesomes. Have two more from this set of 1950s cheesecake hotties coming up in part 2, plus a later shot of another set of exhibitionistic women from the 1960s.

 

Obsessed with Fellatio: explicit vintage amateurs

Ca. 1940s .

 

Ca. 1970s-80s.

 

Obsessed with Love: pulp fiction cover art

Crazy Love Couples: vintage explicit erotica

Ca. 1940s, rare estate photos.

 

The Girl's Got It Bad: vintage love-sick babe

Ashtray. Check. Booze. Check.  Sad music. Check. Lingerie you wore the last time you fucked. Check.  OK then, let the pity party begin!

The Ass-End of Sexual Frustration

This giraffe's so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe! One of 25 different photos of interspecies mating attempts featured at www.holytaco.com. What would you call the offspring of a giraffe and a donkey? A girass?

Tortured Teen Love: Four Vintage Comic Covers

Your typical toxic love.

She cheats on him

 

He cheats on her

 

She hates him but he makes her wet

Then one day she finds the courage to leave and a giant seabird bursts into song.  

 

Happens every day in the big city.

Mother, You Don't Know Dick (and other comic moments)

 

 

A Day of Crazy Love

 

 

I have something to tell you and it isn't pretty

I'm going to be taking a few weeks off from the Internet, starting Wednesday, Dec. 15th.

 

omg you can't see the mouse of shock? Go to youtube and see the mouse 

I won't be blogging or answering email again until January (except, of course, email with clients currently in therapy and any emergency business -- all new clients will have to wait to schedule until January).  Wish I could say I'm taking the time to vanish into the Other World Kingdom,  but I am going to be finishing up the final draft of my new book for my publisher. 

Wednesday is my last official day of blogging/emailing until January 4th.  I'll write a longer, more personal, juicier bye-bye on Wednesday. 

Vintage "How To Ads" : strangely sexual vintage advertising

 

My favorite of the lot, and possibly of all time, ever favorite crazy fashion product: the blow-up-your-own-boobs bra.  O.M.F.G.  Why is't this an SM party game?

 

Strange Vintage Ads: selling sex to men

Love this very detailed ad -- Klaw sure knew what his audience wanted, didn't he?

Ummm....

 

 

Not like men have to deal with any social pressure or anything...OUCH.

 

Groovy Gadgets for Girls: funny vintage ads

I swear to God, if they made these today, I'd install one in my bedroom.

Now here's a handy device that could serve double-duty in every lady's home...It cleans and polishes EVERYTHING....especially dirty girls.

 

I wonder if Miss Plastic tried this handy little device out before spending all that money?