Gloria's Oversexed Mind

Erotic Arts Day: Steve Martin

A while back, an artist contacted me, using the name Steve Martin. Neither of us were entirely sure why he suddenly had that impulse but I am so grateful he yielded to it. Though I still do not know his true identity, I did recognize his phenomenal talent. We've occasionally corresponded since then, and he generously sent me a CD of hundreds of the most astonishing images I've ever seen. To some, it will look like the furry art they've seen on various furry sites (possibly because he is a king in their universe and has published work under a wide range of pseudonyms since the 1980s.) To me, it looks like R. Crumb dropped purple owsley and went to work for Disney, where he was further corrupted by an anarachist leather cult. Spectacular!!

See what you think of the work by this most unusual artist, who asks only to be listed here as "A Tortured artist in Orange County, CA."

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Find out more about Steve Martin on Wiki

Visit him at Mauvette.Net

Send fanmail and queries about purchasing his art to Steve Martin.

Erotic Arts Day: Ricky Carralero

Big thanks to Ricky Carralero for sharing some of his fabulous pin-up creations. Yum!

From a review of the artist by SQP Publishing, Germany.

_{"Ricky Carralero's erotic portraits are so hot they almost glow! Like a Varga for the new millennium, Carralero's pin-up girls are pure spice with just a hint of sweet! Best known for his work on the mega-selling 'Double Impact' line of comics and merchandise, Ricky Carralero's extraordinary ability to illustrate the ultimate in fantasy females is putting him on the fast-track of absolute fan favourites! Born in Cuba in 1969, his family finally made it to the States in the mid-Eighties, and Ricky drank in all the images of mindless sex and violence his new country had to offer - and gave back so much more!}

Contact Info:
email: ricky@rickycarralerobrand.com
on the Web: rickycarralerobrand.com

Erotic Arts Day: Philip Gladstone

A day devoted to some wondrous contemporary erotic art, beginning with these works by Philip Gladstone.

Visit
Philip Gladstone: Rear View Mirror
to see his galleries.

The Many Loves of Jamie Gillis, III

Finally, I looked high and low for vidclips and finally settled on these three wondrous ones found found on youtube (where the Gillis collection is tragically small).

Classic comedy scene from Misty Beethoven.

and some serious SM mojo from "The Seduction of Lyn Carter"

Now, what happens when you combine existential angst and an enema fetish? A cinematic classic called "Waterpowered," featuring perhaps the best porn line ever delivered: "you can't just stick a tube up their asses and hope for the best."

You can send fanmail to Mr. Gillis by visiting his site, jamiegillis.com.

The Many Loves of Jamie Gillis, II

Just realized I've got so much material, I need to divide today's Gillis tribute into three parts. Part II of my all-day love-gush for Mr. Gillis is devoted to movie posters and stills. One problem I quickly discovered while researching him: when male porn stars star in movies with women, the women are usually the focus of the cover art. Which made it a bit challenging to find ones with clear shots of Jamie Gillis.

What's a nice Jewish boy/Columbia University graduate/porn superstar to do? Smile about it, I guess.

Posters

Here are a handful of movie posters where you can clearly see Gillis, beginning with the widely acclaimed porn classic, Misty Beethoven. I believe the first was original to the movie's first release.

This one was issued after the film had won critical accolades.

Stills

The Many Loves of Jamie Gillis, Part I

I really don't know what to say about a man who I find so overwhelmingly sexy that I got tongue-tied every time I tried to write this. With nearly 500 movies to his credit, and the kind of notoriety that other men could only dream of possessing, actor Jamie Gillis is, simply put, the man for whom the term "sex god" was invented. His astonishing (and, at the beginning, accidental) career in adult movies has allowed Mr. Gillis to lead a sex life that would've made Casanova green with envy.

I've read so much about Gillis in the past week (purely clinical interest of course) that now I'm thoroughly confused as to who he really is or what he's really like. I suspect that's just how he likes it. His official site, jamiegillis.com contains nothing more than an email address and recent photo. My sense was that most everyone who knows him personally seems to like him a lot. Most everyone who knows him slightly seems a little frightened of him. Most everyone -- love him or hate him, know him or not -- seems kind of shocked by him.

I guess the thing that is most shocking about Jamie Gillis to most people is, quite simply, that he does it ALL. Really. I mean *ALL*. He is perhaps the single most versatile, polymorphously perverse male adult actor. He has starred in every manner of vanilla sex movie, using his supremely beautiful and naturally, pre-ED drug, ever-hard cock to give God only knows how many bouncing starlets the rides of their lives. He has starred in SM classics, where his intense, dark, sometimes sociopathic sexual sadism is so vivid, raw, and real it makes you shiver. Watch him in some other SM movies, though, and he is groveling, craven, so degraded you are sure he could never imagine him ever saying anything but "yes, Mistress." He was as convincing -- and as hardcore -- in the gay movies he made, making people believe he had "turned gay." He really freaked people out with his enema and scat movies. He appears to enthusiastically enjoy every sexual variation known to mankind; and, seriously, I wouldn't be surprised to find out he invented some new ones. Mainly, he comes across as a smart, handsome man who was lucky enough to have the talent, ambition and sexual stamina to earn a living by having sex with infinite numbers of insanely gorgeous and sensual women.

Endlessly creative, endlessly sexual and endlessly hard, Gillis is also endlessly talented as an actor, something I think his critics often miss. More than that, he is a totally utterly sexually uninhibited professional (i.e., classically trained) actor. Jamie Gillis is nakedness personified on screen. I think Stanislavski would approve of him but his critics get lost in the details and their own political agendas: if they disapprove of the sexuality depicted, they disapprove of Gillis. Which, from my point of view, is bizarre. After all, it's Gillis' ability to throw himself fully into his roles that's made audiences believe that his porno films are autobiographical. To me, that's a form of acting genius.

There are two more reasons I am completely mad for Jamie Gillis. First, because porn may be a man's world behind the scenes, but it's all-girl on-screen. You can count on one hand the number of het male porn stars who are really famous: Jamie is one of them. Second, I love him because he is so huge a part of our BDSM history, and truly one of the men who changed the course of sexual mores in America. He was not alone in this, of course, nor was he ever a political figure. I somehow doubt he ever saw himself as a sexual activist and yet I consider him a key figure in the 20th century's sexual revolution. His movies, his complete embrace of pan/omnisexuality, his openly SM lifestyle with former girlfriend, Serena, his free spirit and his passions...the sum of his work has shaped the sexual world we all play in now.

Rather than continue gushing for the rest of my life about him, here are some of the best places to find out more about this object of my cinematic lust.

Read The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry by Legs McNeil, to find out more about the hot Gillis/Serena SM affair and the lives of the porn stars who changed American sexual attitudes.

Listen to Jamie Gillis in an Interview with Johnny Dare

Check out the interview Mr. Gillis gave to Susie Bright

Get some interesting background on his life and porn filmography on Penetrating Insights

Oh no! He retired from porn in 2007! Cindy Adams had the scoop

You can also check the Jamie Gillis listings on Wikipedia or IMDB, but I found their summaries kind of weak. How DOES one Wiki a porn legend?

Perhaps my favorite found link was this one on MovieFone, which failed to provide the details on a film Gillis starred in, titled "Whore."

Want More Whore?

To which I say...Only if his name is Jamie Gillis.

In part II, I'll run some video clips and a bunch of vintage images from Mr. Gillis' filmography.

Icy Ambiguity: Johnny Weir

Fascinating film review on my buddy Sue Katz's blog.

This documentary follows Johnny Weir, the brilliant ice skater, through his achievements, his under-achievements and his bubble baths.

There is a long tradition of male dancers putting on their tutus and toe shoes and dancing as swans in gender-bending Swan Lake ballets. Johnny Weir is famous for having put the male swan into ice-skating.

READ:
A Pop Star on Ice by Sue Katz

Gloria Vanderbilt's BDSM Obsession

Blogged about this book when it was available for pre-order. Now Obsession: An Erotic Tale is officially available for sale from Amazon, and this reviewer offers some inside peeks.

Gloria Vanderbilt's Brooklyn sex mansion: anything but vanilla

The Brooklyn sex mansion that just so happens to be the setting of the majority of the book's orgy scenes is aptly called the "Janus Club". What the New York Times doesn't mention is that Janus, the Roman god of doorways who had two faces peering in opposite directions, has always been an important symbol to those involved in BDSM. San Francisco's own not-for-profit organization promoting safe consensual BDSM is called the Society of Janus, and chose the name because "Janus has two faces, which we interpreted as the duality of SM (one's dominant and submissive sides)." Janus Magazine, an old British magazine devoted to softcore spanking, also takes on the name. There is, in Vanderbilt's novel, a special usage for a "smooth-backed Mason Pearson hairbrush purchased at Harrods," that has little to do with brushing actual hair.

Ms. Vanderbilt also acknowledges that her work is inherently autobiographical, and states, "I think that all the very graphic sex is true of self-exploration and true of fantasy. I think it’s poetic.” I started reading excerpts of her novel on the Harper Collin's website, and an arbitrary scroll to page 16 revealed this:

I will be carrying only a single match, but that match will find its way to your body's middle, where even as you sleep you are thinking of me while I make my honey. It is as if that match were a bee that needs to suck your cock so much it could find it, hidden though it is, in the world's largest city. And, having lighted the way, the bee will fly away, the match extinguished, and I will begin, softly at first so that you can sleep a few more minutes, the long, slow, delicious process of licking your cock, and since I must have your honey milk even more than the bee, I will struggle to stay quiet though my pussy will be throbbing drumlike: I will eat you at first around the rim of your cock in undulating circular patterns. I take it in my mouth and give it a special kiss. Master, I whisper as you surrender to our ecstasy.

Obsession may be one of the classiest books about BDSM ever published. Ms. Vanderbilt is, after all, an heiress. In this novel, you won't encounter any vinyl clad jezebels in lucite heels. According to the NYT, in lieu of the usual BDSM fare, the author presents us with "young ladies in Fortuny tea gowns, without underwear" who are blind-folded with "masks of dove and marabou feathers".

Bosoms heaving, nipples clamped

Great little piece about SM sex in Romance novels. Thanks to W. for sharing.

It used to be that homosexuality was the immediately identifiable Mark of Wickedness and Evil. In 2000, Candy Tan critiqued “The Completely Despicable Gay Uber-Villain” at AAR’s At the Back Fence blog, deploring “the constant and pretty much consistent association of homosexuality, bisexuality and almost anything other than regular heterosexual sex with everything evil,” labeling it as “the lure of Instant Depravity—‘For Immediate and Complete Evilness, Just Add Homosexuality!’”

I would argue, though, that Gay Insta-Evil has almost always gone hand-in-hand with Insta-Evil Sadism. In fact, sadism has always been a much more reliable indicator of uber-villainy than homosexuality....

Read more in
Sadomasochistic Romance: Can it be Done?

Me, in a past life

Guessing 18th century, engraving titled "The Cully Flaug'd"