Gloria's Oversexed Mind

Post-Modern Perversions in Suburbia: The End

 

Back tomorrow with a whole lot of truthiness from my truthy new book.  We're talking EXCERPTS, baby!

 

 

Post-Modern Perversions in Suburbia (Photo 6)

Post-Modern Perversions in Suburbia (Photo 5)

I don't know if they're going to sleep or waking up, but they sure look happy, don't they? So who took the photo?

 

 

Home is Where the Vibrator Is

Pretty Exhibitionists

 

 

Tips of the Day

 

 

Post-Modern Perversions in Suburbia (Photo 4)

It's like being a fly on the wall, isn't it? I love finding estate photos of real people in living rooms and bedrooms and hotel rooms having private orgies. Entire life stories are contained within these shots. Where are they? How did they come to be there? What happened next? And, who took the photo!?

 

 

Post-Modern Perversions in Suburbia (Photo 3)

Post-Modern Perversions in Suburbia (Photo 2)

The middle of the day just went away....

There I was, all prepped for the stuff I wanted to post when the phone rang.  Then it rang again.  Then the doorbell rang, causing a merry hell among the canine set, which in turn caused a sullen blow-back from the cats.  Then the phone rang again.  Then the dogs decided they needed to pointlessly bark at absolutely nothing in the distance, and couldn't be satisfied until we had all explored that distant nothing as a pack.  When I finally got back to my laptop, the phone rang.

Don't you hate when that happens?

 

 But I'm back now, and will keep going into evening, just for the hell of it.

Post-Modern Perversions in Suburbia (Photo 1)

Uruguay: Naked Straight Retreat

Found this while surfing around, a nudist resort for (as in restricted to) heterosexuals. I didn't have the time to click around and read up on their policy, so I'll head back soon.

 

 

Meanwhile, you can check out www.chihuahuaresort.com for yourself.   My stress levels dropped just looking at their pictures.

Your Ear

Your ear on cocaine (thanks to a new flesh-eating bacteria showing up in NY and LA). 

 

 

 

Danse Macabre

via www.youtube.com

Dance Sublime

Good morning to you, darling. Do you need a little boost? Perhaps this will do it.

She without arm, he without leg - ballet - higher resolution

We'll be back to the future tomorrow

With sex news and links in the morning, and some contemporary nude beauties in the afternoon.  And that's no horse hockey.

 

Flapper Bottle Opener

Sex is an inextricable part of the business economy.

 

Say what you want on the back...

 

 

The customers only remembered the swimsuit model on the front.

 

Tying One On: unique vintage postcard

The Awakening: Suffrage Memorabilia

From 1915, an emotional appeal to grant women the right to vote across the United States. The women shrouded by darkness on the east coast, appealing to lady justice to shed her light upon them and bring them relief from the degradations of social inequity, are particularly haunting. Simple and direct, the image speaks to the universal craving for equality.

 

 

 

Tempting Tints: One Beauty, Three Poses

 

 

 

Tempting Tinted Nudes 2

Forgive me my shameless marketing ploys.  I don't know what I was thinking.  My inner bookwhore got the best of me.

 

 

 

From now on, I'll try to be coy.

 

(Are you holding out for 50s pinups or something?) :P

Tempting Tinted Nudes 1

So, um, did you buy my book yet?

 

It's a really good book.  You should buy it.  Like, um, NOW.

 

 

So did it work?  Did your evolutionary sex brain make you run to buy it?  Hmmm, I may have to re-think my advertising strategy.

How about now?

Women Sell

One of the points I hammer at in the new book is how oblivious we are, on the surface, of how powerful a force sex is in every aspect of human life. A very simple illustration: take a completely non-sex-related product, like seafood, and try to make it sexy to a clientele of mostly male shop-keepers. The quickest way, of course, will be to include an image of an attractive female.

 

 

I think when men buy products showing sexy women, it is not only that they imagine themselves getting such a woman if they own the product -- I think many feel an unconscious impulse to please the woman in the ad, particularly if she tempts by revealing some flesh.

 

 

Even when they know that neither seafood nor cigars will bring them closer to the object of their desire, sex is so powerful a force that people will spend, spend, spend.   

Goin' Down Menstrual Memory Lane

If you can follow the logical consistencies in this vintage Kotex ad, you may be a schizophrenic.  Just saying. 

 

 

Midol cartoons!  ca. 1930s.

 

Well bless your heart, Sally.  If only it was that easy for everyone.  (ca. 1960)

 

 

 

1970's Midol: for that time of the month when you want to roast phallic symbols. 

 

 

 

Today's Tied Up in the Past

 

Did you know it was a long-standing folk custom in Europe for women to be allowed to propose marriage to men during a leap year?  If the man declined, he was charged a fine.  See more details on Wiki.

Here's a card commemorating Leap Year 1912.  I love the three dudes looking away, trying to pretend it's not really happening.

 

Coming Soon to D.C.: Dr. Gloria B Me

I'm honored to say I was invited to deliver the opening keynote for the 4th Annual CARAS conference in Washington, DC, on August 3.   My topic will be perspectives and therapeutic models for working with BDSM, fetish and poly clients, and the talk will be aimed at colleagues at varying stages of professional development.

So...I'm thinking there should be some kind of book-signing something or other while I'm in DC.  And that's where the thinking breaks down :P  Don't wanna do bookstore signings, or be put on display like a bug under glass, while people who want to meet me feel like tourists being shuffled past the Mona Lisa.  Seriously.  You all know what's behind my smile. Sadism. 

Anyway, if you or someone you know would like to host some kind of civil yet libertine frolic where people can actually talk to me in a relaxed and informal setting, let me know.  Otherwise, me and the bf will probably spend every free hour at the Smithsonian.  Hm.  Now that would be an interesting group experience....!

About CARAS,

The Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities  (CARAS) promotes serious academic research and professional education about  alternative sexualities and polyamory. This work ultimately improves the lives  of everyone in the leather, kink, BDSM and polyamory communities.

CARAS is dedicated to the support and promotion of excellence in the study of alternative sexualities, and the dissemination of research results to the alternative sexuality communities, the public, and the research community.

Paul Cadmus: men, beautiful men

I featured a video of the magnificent art of Paul Cadmus on my youtube channel but this one, by Augusto Mariante, is an exquisite tribute to this exceptional American artist.  It deserves way more hits!  Pass it along.

 

No one is equal until...you know. Don't you?

In the wake of the marriage rights victory in New York (YAY NEW YORK!), this sad story about Russian gays (14 insanely brave souls!) serves as a reminder of how much more work needs to be done to help people around the world know the freedom and dignity of being granted their civil rights.

 

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) – Russian police on Saturday detained 14 gay rights activists trying to hold an unsanctioned demonstration in St. Petersburg, as well as one person suspected of attacking the protesters. (Scroll down for photos)

Police detained two groups of activists protesting their lack of rights in two central districts of the city. An Associated Press photographer saw unidentified individuals attack the demonstrators, trying to seize their banners before police moved in.

Attempts to hold Gay Pride rallies almost always end in violence in Russia. Authorities habitually refuse gay rights activists their constitutional right to assemble, particularly in Moscow, on the grounds that other people find it offensive.

via www.huffingtonpost.com

It drives me crazy that some Americans still cannot grasp the simple concept of equal rights.  Didn't they ever read Orwell's Animal Farm?

 

Enough already with the notion that being heterosexual means you belong to an elite class with special entitlements refused to people who are not heterosexual.  Either everyone's equal or no one is.

When Bad Things Happen to Good Pinups

 

 

Swap Till You Drop (pulp fiction style)

 

 

 

 

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