Inside Gloria's Mind

Sexual Chocolate: wine for BDSMers?

Not your typical marketing campaign but wow what a way to brand.

 

SLO Down Wines - #GoesGreatWith Equestrianism from Arcade on Vimeo.

1920s thinking: Cigarettes and Romance Go Together

 

I beg to differ.

Grand art, though.

Hot and Gooey for Spring: Penis Macaroon

SFist: How does it feel to be the representative cookie of the Castro?

Penis Macaroon: It feels great. I'm not the only penis you see walking around here, which is nice. I feel like everyone accepts me for who I am. No one is asking me to "put it back in my pants", for example. No one is covering their kids' eyes when they walk by. I feel totally supported by the community and that's really all I can ask for.

via Dessertwire: In Which We Interview a Hot Cookie Penis Macaroon

Welcome to the happiest casino in the Old West

Where the women were happy to help you spend your gold on pleasures of every type.

Modern Man: style evolution, 1966-1969

Ah the classic "flip," the quintessential cool, mod 60s color and style, and those classic lines reminiscent of 1950s glamour and the sophistication of Jackie O.  It's all so recherché.   

 

"Care for a martini, darling?"

 

 

The hippies have arrived.   Things are looser -- the schoolmarm's bun is coming undone, and the clothes -- now in psychedelic designs -- are falling off.  Free love is far out! 

 

 "Come to Earth Mother."

 

 

But then...in 1969...did someone spike the water cooler? Blinding colors, sloppy work, vulgar everything, gruesome sex crimes.  Sounds like someone had one bad acid trip too many. 

 

"Let's shag."

Bag Drops in Dubai (state-of-the-art safe-sex service)

If you get lucky in Dubai and don't have a rubber in your pocket,  Durex will deliver your bag door-to-door.  Ingenious new service and marketing campaign for international businesspeople, isn't it?  Check out their multi-media promotional site:   Durex - SOS Condoms

The Height of French Lingerie Fashion, ca. 1960s

2 Vintage Topless Show Posters

I believe this is in Dutch. 

As the Johns Roll (Edouard Bernard)

These humorous tableaux of Parisian prostitutes seducing and then rolling clients are signed by the illustrious 19th c. French artist, Edouard Bernard.

 

I have a penis in my mistletoe

MISTLE BLOW "Pornament" via www.xgenproducts.com

Nina Hartley in Depth

 

 

Tonight's show featured the amazingly honest, real, and sexy Nina Hartley. Listen now

 

 

via The Gloria Brame Show on Spreaker.Com

 

Tonight's Radio Show: Dr. David Ley, "The Myth of Sex Addiction"

 

 

have you read The Truth About Sex ?  Let Gloria open your mind to evidence-based standards of normality. 

 

Dr. Ley's books

     

 

 

First issue of Hustler, July 1974

 

Found this elsewhere but it turns out you can snag a rare (only one) copy of the July 1974 Hustler on Amazon for $150.

Have you ever seen a purple girl?

I never saw a purple girl
I never hope to see one.
But I can tell you anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one. cf.

 

Coney Island, NY, late 1940s-early 1950s

Dreams Can Change the World

Skin Mags Are Our Religion

Two Generations of Victorian Prostitutes

Possibly a mother and daughter -- so many anatomical similarities and --fascinatingly!  - almost identical feet.  Pictures speak in a silent language but I wish this one could speak and tell me the whole story of these women's lives. 

Why Non-Traditional Families Matter

Download tonight's show or listen to the player right now.

 

Our usual madcap roundup of sex stories in the news, plus we aired a fabulous interview with LGBT and other non-traditional families advocate, Diana Adams, and talked about why the laws should change to reflect the realities of family relationships today.

 

Bollywood Does Pussy Tightening: must watch vid

 

CAVEAT EMPTOR: I put this ad here for its entertainment value. I do not endorse this product. If you order this product, you do so at your own risk. My advice: if you are concerned about poor muscle tone in your vagina, speak to a physician. There are safe remedies to the problem, and you won't have to dance the flamenco to get them.

Have you registered yet? Sexual Freedom Summit 2012

I'm proud to be on the Board of the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance.   The WSFA is the world's only organization working to make sexual freedom recognized as a fundamental human right. And once a year, we pull out all the stops and host our annual Sexual Freedom Summit in Washington D.C.

If you are a thinking person who likes to think about sex; or a non-thinking person who just loves sex (ahem)...well, hell you MUST COME to the Summit. I'll be there. And, really, some of the most amazingly enlightened, entertaining, and friendly people in the world will be there too. No drama, just fun, games, and the most deliciously delightful intellectual stimulations you could ever hope to find. I promise. Register now and I'll hope to see you there!

Sexual Freedom Summit 2012 Registration - Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance

juicy bits from the Program

 

 

Start your weekend off on Friday night with “Popcorn and Porn.” Woodhull Board members (and consummate porn-makers in their own rights) Buck Angel and Nina Hartley, host this rollicking variation on more conventional movie nights and meet and greet events, with good food, good conversation, and good (and bad!) porn as well as a very special appearance by Porno Jim!

Saturday our work begins in earnest with a jam-packed educational program, our Sexual Freedom Institute. Expert panels and interactive workshops explore a full range of sexual freedom issues in the context of “Prohibition Politics: The Assault on Sexual Freedom”. Confirmed speakers include Diana Adams, Buck Angel, Ajamu Baraka, Eric Berkowitz, Melissa Sontag Broudo, Brandon Lacy Campos, Kelly Cookson, Rev. Beverly Dale, Kate D’Adamo, Alison Gardner, Hardy Haberman, Judith Lynne Hanna, Amber Hollibaugh, Anita Wagner Illig, Luke Lirot, Eva-Marie Malone, Robin Mandell, Dan Massey, Reid Mihalko, Susan Miranda, Jill Mizell, Esther Perel, Christopher Ryan, and Lawrence G. Walters.

Saturday night, a VIP reception with the Woodhull Board of Directors precedes our Vicki Award presentations hosted by Maria Falzone. Celebrate this year’s sexual freedom heroes and stay for the party! “Liberty, Libations and Libido” is our evening party and annual fundraiser hosted by Nina Hartley, Diana Adams, and Gabrielle Penabaz and features our fabulous DJ, Friar Tuck.

AND….as if all of that wasn’t enough, on Sunday we are delighted to celebrate Sexual Freedom Day on Victoria Woodhull’s birthday with our Authors’ Roundtable, featuring noted authors, Eric Berkowitz (Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire, Amber Hollibaugh (My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home ), Esther Perel (Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence ), and Christopher Ryan (Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships ).

 

 

 

via Gloria Brame

Colorful Characters: The Audition

 

 

Kotex on hygienic hazards and handicaps

Hard to imagine the kind of terror such ads instilled in women, and how it further shored up inhibitions and fears about their vaginas.   On tonight's show, I'll talk a little about how the instilled social anxiety about vaginas --and some of the products sold to them -- has actually raised women's risk of infections and diseases.

 

 

 

 

Dial-a-Kotex for the exceptionally inhibited

 

Because we're too ashamed to say it's for periods

Do they still sell Modess?  Anyway, ca. late 1950s-1960s, someone came up with the bright idea of boldly advertising Modess sanitary napkins without actually saying what they are.  Because.  You know.  Because!

 

 

 

 

 

Even when they put an obviously symbolic V in the ad, with a fetishistic model of menstruation wearing an obviously symbolic V-neck dress that melts into the crotch of the V, which is just so weird I don't know what it means, they still won't admit it's a napkin. 

 

 

The New Vagina Panty

via www.women24.com

Welcome to the Cabaret!

Welcome back, everyone.  Yes, I've been randomly blogging throughout my so-called hiatus, as the whim suited, and that's how it's going to keep looking around here until I finish volume 2 of The Truth About Sex.  The new volume is all about sex and OTHER people!  (The first volume was "Sex and the Self," and focused primarily on masturbation, orgasm, and the basics of sexual ethics and communication.)   I've got a solid month of hard work ahead to complete it for my self-imposed August deadline.   So you may see more thought-laden ramblings and blurts and news links fly up as I'm working book ideas through my mind.  But, of course, there will always be lovely nudes and merry sexy people to keep things festive and chill.  Kind of like an icy mojito on a hot July Day....

Hope you all had a rockin' sockin' fourth.  We blew up some fireworks and feasted on a good old-fashioned All American BBW.  I mean, BBQ.  *drum roll*

OK, then.  Starting off with some lovely people who once worked at an Old West gambling saloon, ca. 1920s.   This advertising postcard showed customers far and wide what comforts they could hope to find inside this happy little hacienda.   And after the whiskey and stage show (and it looks like there was a swimming spectacle too, where one could see the curvy girls in OMG wet bathing suits, one may safely surmise that, for a price, these cheery ladies were happy to help you get out of your dusty boots and into something wet in the boudoirs upstairs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: some fetishes never change

via Gloria's FB page

Topless Advertising: the best way to travel

ca. 70s ad for the Dusseldorf-based airline, Lufttransport-Unternehmen, now a subsidiary of Air Berlin.

 

 

 

The Original Topless Phonebooth

Souvenir postcard from this fine establishment, front and back.

 

 

 

Naked News from 1964: 3 fantastic wire-photos #toplessbathingsuits

 

 

 

Omg, it's a hatsuit... or a hatkini?   Hard to understand why it didn't catch on. :p

 

 Not everyone was in favor of this new fashion of course.