Inside Gloria's Mind

Satan's Slave! (Horror movie)

Queer Hustlers: "Fee Males" and "Mr. Madam"

 

Great Gay Pulp 2nite

Coming up, an hour or two of fabulous queer pulp classics.

 

 

 

The Flesh Surrenderers (#queerpulp #wrestling)

Lesbian erotic wrestling fiction for the queer/fetish crowd.

In the Pink, with Shades of Blue (pinup)

Pastel Pinup (#BillyDeVorss)

Peek-a-Boo Pin-Ups ! (#Elvgren #Moran)

Pinups to coyly tease the viewer without revealing too much, an art that Elvgren and Moran both mastered.

 

 

 

Pulpy Tabloid Girly Adventure

Two particularly lurid publications to appeal to pervy readers ca. 1960s.    As a kid, pulps like these used to keep me transfixed at newsstands though I was too embarrassed and too poor to buy them.

 

 

At This Very Moment, Everything is Perfectly Perfect #nude

so stretch it out and breathe...............

Yes, Darling, I couldn't be any happier....

Unless you'd like to drop by and celebrate with me.

Sweet Smut for Switch-Hitters

 

Mmm, makes a delicious sandwich.

 

Homosexual Panic

Preying on the public fears that gays and lesbians were dangerous...and feeding the public hunger for more and more and more moistening erotic fiction about it.    Fucked up? Just a tad.

I wonder how many GOP legislators fantasize about this scenario before bed-time.  

 

 

And let's not forget those terrifying gans of lesbians...check these gals out.  They look like a gang of love-buttons to me.

 

Lez play!

And who could blame 'em....

I love the enigma of this cover.  You know something amazingly kinky is about to happen.

Covering a Myriad of Bases - multi-perv pulp

This one is trying to cover bondage, kink, master/slave, swinging, and the implied bisexuality of orgies in one fell swoop. Ambitious!

 

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The lavender/purple nightmare art hurts my eyes, making its lurid attempt to cover lesbianism, voyeurism, BDSM, and endless fetishes (stockings and garters! big boobs!  butch/femme! fetish wear! opera gloves! high heeled pumps! peep-toe heels! cigarette holder! the list goes on!) ever the sweeter.

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Friendly Lesbians

they say they're just friends but I have my doubts.

(any guesses on the illustrator?  looks a bit like Bill Ward to me)

They had me at "Captive Men" - Queer Pulp

 A big bang graphic art show today, featuring classic and esoteric pulp fiction by and for the whole alphabet soup of sexually diverse people, ca. 1950s-1960s.

 

 

 

 

Star Drek: enterpising fiction

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Another Night Chez Brame?

this is for Karen, who wanted a brunette. :)

 

Orange You Glad I'm Kinky? (palpitatingly #kinky #pulp)

There you are, looking around for

a little evening reading.....




right before bedtime...

when you can finally be all alone in your mind with the woman of your dreams.

And yet we forgot it

It's so embarrassing when publishers make predictions like that.

The One and Only Molly O'Day

No, really: this kick-ass cartoon character only lived for a single issue. 

 

If this is a MAN'S LIFE (#adventure)

I think I'll stay home and plant begonias.

 

On the other hand, I'd buy this issue!

Strange Sensations (great pulp art)

The pulp illustration in the true crime magazine above is gorgeously cheesy, but the promise of "35,000 extra words" takes this next one straight over the top.

 

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Get SNAPPY and SMILES

It's going to be sexy 50s kitsch all day, with humor, adventure magazines, pinup art, and more funky delights from

 

1920s thinking: Cigarettes and Romance Go Together

 

I beg to differ.

Grand art, though.

Shame Play (vintage pulp)

Sexology Dressed As Sleaze: funkalicious pulp

From the title, I thought this was about lesbians or transvestites, who were often described in lurid yet confusing ways on pulp covers ("the secret sex," "the lavender sex," "the shadow sex," etc.)  The  curvy woman in boots and the subtitle first also made me think of sex-workers.

 

 

 

But the back -- so different and clashing in design! - tells the real story of what's between the covers

 

Aha! One of those semi-fictional accounts of the people who used to hook up through sleazy "contact rags."  Really popular from the late 1950s-1980s, they were cheap magazines with few stories but long sections of explicit personal ads and private snail-mail mailing lists you could join to match up your kinks more precisely.

Even from this distance, it seems that nothing much has changed:  the way we  hook up on the Internet is a high-tech mirror of what people did 50 years ago -- strangers offers pictures, descriptions, wants and desires and we hope it'll work out for the best.  Only now, we don't have to wait weeks or months to find out, we can send and receive on a massive scale, and there is a whole lot more high-quality eye-candy to examine along the way. 

Anyway, assuming the author did real research, this book might have been more than "nightstand" material but actually an interesting read.   As for how this ended up with a cover and title that don't even vaguely represent the book's synopsis, I'll guess it's a tale involving a lot of editorial panic, some degree of profit incentive, and very few resources to fix the problems. :)

Erotic Captivity & BDSM (vtg #bondage pulps)

The BDSM potboilers of our grandparents: vintage SM pulp

Collected a wonderful assortment of "nightstand reading" (i.e., books to jerk off to) from the late 50s to the 70s, covering all the themes and fantasies we still enjoy today. Lots of strange graphic art, lurid details, lesbianism, swinging, algolagnia, and bondage to ogle.

 

 

 

t's a good reminder that human vanity makes us want to believe we are inventing something new each time a book like Fifty Shades of Grey finds success, but sex history demonstrates that the fundamental passion for sadomasochism is as old as humanity.

 

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Black Seduction (vintage magazine)

(page from a vintage girly magazine ca. 1960)