Inside Gloria's Mind

CARAS and Kink Academy

A little more news for folks coming to hear my opening speech on Wednesday morning, straight from my emailbox:

 

Kink Academy will be recording the opening keynote given by Gloria Brame, and the following sessions (tentative): Barry Smiler, Jennifer Eve Rehor, Kelly Cookson and Margaret Robinson.   This is an effort that fits the overall mission of CARAS – to provide connection and access to the latest research and cutting edge intellectual developments that affect the alternative sexuality communities.

 

Kudos to CARAS and to the Kink Academy for this initiative. I know some folks who can't be there would like to see me in full frontal academic action, so perhaps you'll get that chance via Kink Academy's efforts.  But as something of a dedicated recluse, now I'm wondering...burqa?  I wish there was some way I could send my mind out on tour and keep my body at home in the garden.

Working on my speech for Wednesday

at the book reception being hosted by Woodhull and VenusPlusX/Columbia.  Extremely psyched.  Biggest problem: I have TOO MUCH to say!  But will hammer on the subject nearest and dearest to my hosts' (and my) hearts: sexual freedom.  The theme is central to my book, which plows through anti-sex dogma out there.  For example, the twisted history of how we came to believe why things which are good for you (such as masturbation) are bad, while things which are not good for you (such as circumcision) are healthy.    And then there's how we grant greater social status and legal rights to people who have man-on-top-woman sex than to people who have man-on-man or woman-on-woman or non-penetrative intimacy.  Wouldn't you love to be an alien Anthropologist writing a paper on the society that divvied up social rights according to sexual behaviors?  I'd be embarrassed to be an earthling.

When you compare public attitudes towards sex and the data about how sex is lived and experienced, the gulf between them is alarming.  We are 21st century people suffocated by 19th century ideology that's crammed down our throats by uneducated theocrats.   My book's mission is to snuff out some of the stupidity and candidly look at the facts we know.

I think I'm ready to talk.  Back to jotting notes.

 

 

Travelogue

I don't travel often but when I do I GO

I love to travel hard, to move fast, to stop often and leave soon. The road is a dream and the regular rules don't apply. I'm packing light for my trip to D.C. Some clothes, some gadgets, and my mind.

I want to try something new

I want to speak directly to you.

At least for the coming week because I probably won't be able to do much photoblogging while I'm on the road.

Let's see how it goes.

 

G.

Book Reception for THE TRUTH ABOUT SEX: Meet Me in DC, 8/3

I'm hitting the road in a couple of days, destination Washington, D.C., where I'll be delivering the keynote at the CARAS annual conference on August 3d, 2011. Attendance is open to community members who would like to keep up on contemporary research into BDSM, poly, and other alternative sexual identities.  My topic will be best practices in working with kinky clients, with tips based on over 10 years of great successes in my practice. 

As psyched as I am for CARAS, I am utterly  delighted to be guest of honor at an elegant private Woodhull/VenusPlusX book reception that night (Wednesday, August 2d) for The Truth About Sex.   My theme:  sexual freedom isn't just a concept, it is backed by scientific evidence that adult sexuality is diverse, non-binary, blurry around a lot of edges, and not reproduction-based. 

To guarantee a seat at this very exclusive event, you must email an RSVP to WOODHULL by August 1.

 

MEET THE AUTHOR GLORIA BRAME "The Truth About Sex" Wednesday, August 3rd from 7pm - 9pm in Washington, DC

JOIN WOODHULL FOR A FUN EVENING WITH AUTHOR GLORIA BRAME* hosted by:   VenusPlusX.org

Have you ever wondered why we think one type of sex is better than another? Are inhibitions or confus ionabout sex holding you back? Do you think you're a sex addict? Have you given up on having good orgasms with your partner? Are you worried sex will break up your relationship?   Join us on Wednesday, August 3rd for a fabulous evening talking about those issues and more with the author  of  "The Truth About Sex, A Sex Primer for the 21st Century Volume I: Sex and the Self", by internationally renowned sex therapist, bestselling author, and sex blogger/historian (Gloria's OversexedMind, The Bilerico Project), Gloria G. Brame, Ph.D.     Twenty years of Dr. Brame's research on human sexuality is distilled into three fast-paced volumes that will change the way you look at sex. They offer reality-based models which combine Brame's original theories, hard facts, and over 10 years of highly successful, results-oriented sex therapy. Brame addresses the most intimate, complicated questions about sex in page-turning, warmly empathic prose. Using cutting-edge sex and medical studies, historical research, and composite case studies from her private practice, she teaches adults how to make sexual ecstasy a reality.   Volume 1, SEX AND THE SELF, is a complete primer on masturbation, orgasm and new models for talking about, thinking about and understanding your inner sexual identity. It includes Dr. Brame's best clinical techniques for improving sexual performance and increasing every adult's potential for complete sexual satisfaction.   RSVP BY MONDAY, 8/1 FOR LOCATION.     *A percent of every book purchase will be donated to Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance

 

 

Your continued support will help to affirm  sexual freedom as a fundamental human right!    P.S. Remember, your contribution is tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law  and will be used to help advance our movement for the affirmation of sexual freedom as a fundamental human right!  Thank you for your support.

Mutrix/Nutrix Extravaganza: forced feminization (5 HOT covers)

Why, yes. Yes, we do. Got a problem with that?

 

 

 

 

 

Mutrix/Nutrix Extravaganza: Totally Grueling

 

 

 

Mutrix/Nutrix Extravaganza: it's the TAME-AZONS!

 Forced feminization is a few of my favorite things...

 

 

 

 

Ohhh, sooo extra nice.

 

 

1960s FemDom Magazines: Mutrix/Nutrix Extravaganza

Half a century ago they were doing BDSM pretty much the way we do it today and the proof is in these funky, skanky and immensely titillating old magazines.  You can almost smell the oily dust they collected in the years they spent buried in the backshelves of dimly-lit stores now long gone.

I'd love to know the history of Mutrix/Nutrix -- same group of infamous kinksters (Irwin Klaw, Eric Stanton, to name but two) were behind it, same period of publication (late 1950s - mid 1960s), even the same look, but on some issues it's "Mutrix" and on others it's "Nutrix."  Anyone know the backstory on this?  Was it a legal manoever?  A tax evasion?  A USPS issue?  A response to fanmail?  Or were they just in a state of submissive frenzies?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FemDom Magazines: spreading the BDSM glee

That's right, babies. More bitches than you could beg to shake a stick at you. The rest of the day is devoted to late 1950s/early 1960s-era female domination/fetish magazines.  I'm talking mean cruel ladies doing mean cruel (and sometimes grueling) things to their helpless captives. Who, naturally, love every second of it.

 

 

 

 

http://www.clga.ca/collections/periodicals_lgbt/PeriodicalsInventoryR.shtml

Great Gay Male Bondage: vintage leather hunks (nsfw)

ca. 1970s, this Canadian magazine has a special sensuality to it.  LOVE the models and the simple bondage positions.  Sometimes simplicity is erotic.

 

 

 

 

E-Z bondage but photographed so sensitively, the bottom doesn't need another toy to dress him.

 

 

The Voluptuous Art of Ass Worship (nsfw)

Isn't it romantic?

 

 

 

 What a lucky little fellow he is. 

 

 

Amazon FemDom Fantasies: vintage illustrations

 

 

 

 

 

Classic John Willie: vintage bdsm magazine (nsfw)

 

 

Pulp Dominatrix: 3 vintage femdom books

As distinguished from a submissive one??

 

 

 

Dominatrix Without Mercy: movie poster

X-rated BDSM from 1976.   Any readers ever see this movie?

Storyline

via www.imdb.com

Model Mara answers an ad in "Screw" magazine for a high paying job at a New York City whorehouse that specializes in all kinds of kinky sadomasochistic bondage and discipline sex tricks. The bordello's middle-aged madame shows Mara the ropes (and chains) of the B&D business. Meanwhile, a motley assortment of perverted customers have their wicked carnal way with the hookers who work at the seedy joint.  

We're In A Sadistic Mood Today

 

All BDSM all day, from the 1950s - 1980s, including classic SM/leather and fetish magazines, pulp fiction book covers, bondage erotica,  photos, and a delicious collection of 1960s Mutrix/Nutrix female domination magazines.

See More Sin: Recommended Documentary

If you have the interest (and the time!), this documentary series has unbelievably great footage and solid research on the wonderfully wild 1920s.   I watched it on the recently despised Netflix.

 

Legendary Sin Cities (TV mini-series 2005)

Of all the remarkable events of this century perhaps the most fascinating has been the spontaneous growth, flowering and then decay of a handful of great cities. These cities were places where art, culture and political liberties co-mingled with corruption, brutality and decadence. Everything and just about anyone could be bought and sold. The immigrant would struggle beside the artist. Gamblers, thieves and prostitutes co-habited with soul-savers, the rich and the powerful. The exhilarating combination of the seamy with the sublime made these places a magnet for all the lost souls and refugees of the world. Pushing the limits of tolerance and freedom, they defined the social, political and sexual culture of the 20 th century. Their names ring out: Paris of the '20s, Berlin of the '20s and '30s and Shanghai of the '30s. In the period between the wars, these were the LEGENDARY SIN CITIES of the world...      via www.imdb.com

 

Emblematic of the age: Books About Kiki de Montparnasse

A FB friend inspired me to see what's available on Amazon.  Looks like her memoir (the first book on left) is only available in (very expensive) used editions:

                        

 

Emblematic of the age: Kiki de Montparnasse (pt. 2)

The Queen of Bohemia, 1920s - 1930s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

So much perversion so little time

Need to run downtown for a few hours but I'll pick up the show when I get back tonight.  I still have a ton of wonders to share!  Cya.

Swing/Poly/BDSM: Hello Dali, Ray, Duchamp inter alia

DID YOU KNOW that in the 1920s, in Paris and Berlin most especially, sadomasochists lived fairly openly within the liberated/liberated/art communities?  Iconic artists Salvadore Dali (seen below) and Man Ray were openly into BDSM, and Marcel Duchamp had an alternate identity as a woman (Rose Halevi).  Scores of famous artists and writers were involved in what we today would call the bdsm/poly lifestyle.  It was a brief golden interlude when sexual progressives believed that in the world of the future, free people would live out their sexual identities without shame. 

Everything changed when the Nazis came to power (something I discuss in my new book, btw) but here's a reminder of the fun people were having with their fetishes and SM fantasies.  (Dali and wife inspecting a model's hairstyle and lobster)

 

Swing/Poly/BDSM: 19th c. and early 20th images (nsfw)

How they played in the 19th century (yay for the advent of photography!).  Interesting how much more frequently birches show up instead of whips or other equestrian toys.

 

 

Early 20th century (1920s- 1930s)

 

 

 

 

Why does she look so happy?

 

Ohhhh! OK!

The (Swing/Poly/BDSM) Play's the Thing: 18th c. images

How kinksters played in the 18th century

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Men. In Bondage. Outdoors.

Thirca...thirca...(wiping drool) circa 1970s.

You don't suppose he's excited, do you?  (If not, look closer.)

 

Now this bondage scene is really brutal.  For me, I mean.  ;)

 

 

Female Footslave in Chains

She's acting all embarrassed.  AWWWW. 

Really a beautiful shot.

 

BDSM Cartoons, ca. 1920

Mistress and slave and a knobby phallic symbol.

 

 

Forced feminization and whipping

A Fetish for Legs: vintage photo

 (ca. 1920)

(big thanksies to Beth!)

BDSM Poly Lifestyle, ca. 1890 (nsfw)

 

They look like a merry trio.  Some quite delicious about a birching.  STING!