Gloria's Oversexed Mind

Lolita profiled in NYT

Thanks to RC for pointing me to this must-see multimedia profile on widely-known, well-loved SM activist Lolita Wolf that appeared last month in the NY Times' website. You'll need to register with the NYT to see all the images that accompany the text. I also recommend you check out the feedback, where the BDSM community takes a stand against the prudes who thought it was "shameful" for the NYT to feature a BDSMer.

via www.nytimes.com

BDSM Erotica: QuietMaster 5

Stormy and Kiki

The Master and his slave

Play

Lochai and trinitie

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BDSM Erotica: QuietMaster 4

Pointed

Legs and Boots Together

Kitchen Duty

Karen Chessman at LAC PAG

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BDSM Erotica: QuietMaster 3

Goddess Aleya

Jeff

Mae3

Quiet Beauty 2

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BDSM Erotica: QuietMaster 2

Dominus & Stormy

Bed Bound 6

Christa

Bootlick

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BDSM Erotica: QuietMaster 1

A Touch

Hooded Lipstick

Furniture Rope B&W

Cleansing

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BDSM Erotica All Day: QuietMaster Intro

Someone dear to me (kiss kiss) wrote me a few months ago with the suggestion that I take a look at the photography of a gentleman who participated on my favorite BDSM social network, Fetlife. The result was the opportunity to make the acquaintance of the fascinating "theQuietMaster." With a handle like that one may guess he is a man of few words. Which makes sense, because his engrossing photography of sexual radicals and brave explorers of ALL the edges of consensual play say more about the reality of BDSM than most of the stuff you read on-line.

Artist's bio:
Very early in his career, QuietMaster photographed the young Betti Page. Now retired and living in Florida, he is pursuing his passion for exploring the beauty and the pleasures of the lifestyle. He is currently working on various photography projects, and is always looking for new subjects to pose for him.

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I'll be sharing 20 intense photos today, selected from his galleries of hundreds of equally beautiful works. I'm splitting them into five sets of four throughout the day so you can absorb them. I think you're going to like these.

FOUND: 1920s explicit gay/lesbian photographs nsfw

The only thing I know about these images, which sold at a private estate sale, are that they were produced around 1920. I wish I knew their backstories: who these models were, the names of the photographers, the locations of the studios, whether they were commissioned by the collector or ones he purchased from a middleman. I also wish I knew how these once-illegal images survived -- did they remain in the original owner's stash for 80 years? Did they circulate among a small, select group of friends? Their secrets are lost but I'm grateful nonetheless that they were preserved and now live on as a piece of our sexual history.

Rare image of gay male penetration, ca. 1915-1920

Extremely rare image of lesbian watersports, ca. 1920.

Bright new way to hurt yourself

Anyone who can glibly start an article this way has to be worth a read...

I branded myself, about 8 years ago, with a cookie cutter and a blowtorch. The first time my dad saw it, he asked if someone had held me down and mutilated me in some kind of gangland reprisal. Dad thinks my life is a lot more exciting than it actually is.

via blog.makezine.com

Thanks to Katharine Gates for this.

Help CAAN Fight and support BDSMers in the UK

My friends at the Consenting Adult Action Network (CAAN) need your help in the form of any experiences you've had with unequal treatment based on your sexuality. If you're UK-based, and have a story to tell, please email them @ info@caan.org.uk and help them fight sexually discriminatory laws.

Do you have experience of being discriminated against or abused due to your consensual adult sexuality (or sexual interests)? Do you have experience of being afraid because of your sexuality (or interests), please tell us that too (for example if you believe the only reason you haven't met discrimination is because you keep your interests secret, or have lied about them)? Please talk to CAAN!

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Meanwhile, if you haven't learned about it yet, check out the wording of England's new Extreme Pornography act.  I highlighted this appalling bit

Sections 63 to 67 of the Act make it an offence to possess pornographic images that depict acts which threaten a person's life, acts which result in or are likely to result in serious injury to a person's anus, breasts or genitals, bestiality or necrophilia.

IOW: English law now treats depictions of consensual erotic spanking and corpse rape as equally morally repugnant acts, subject to identical legal punishments.  

The depressing ignorance behind so outlandish an  equation, the arrogance of their bigotry, the prudishness and hatefulness contained in this wording, those are the real crimes here, and sadly it's UK BDSMers who will pay the price for it.

BDSM activists, please spread word about what's happened in the UK.  Join CAAN, follow them on FaceBook, tell your kinky friends about this scary new law, and do what you can to lend support to people like us in the UK.   I hope we're never in their shoes, but if we ever are, I know we'd appreciate support wherever we could find it too.