Sex History Link Round-Up
Some required reading. The image is part of the Peter J. Cohen collection, entitled The Three Graces; found via the inspiring Collectors Are Like Artists; Collections Like Works Of Art. Sometimes...
View ArticleDon’t Be Such a Suicide Knob
I spotted this vintage nude suicide knob at a antique mall — actually, spotted it first, saying, “Hun, you missed something.” How the hell did I miss that?! Maybe it was too shiny. But usually boobs...
View ArticlePush Button Sex
Ever since this post, I’ve been trying to find more information (better scan, publication, date, etc.) of this other image found at Mitch O’Connell’s post. Actually, I haven’t spent that much time on...
View ArticleBig 80s Hair
Everywhere. I was going to make you guess the year; but hair this big isn’t much of a challenge to match to a decade. Not on her head; not on her derriere, either. And the thigh-high stockings, the...
View ArticleNaughty and Nice Vintage Glasses
Ah, the 1940s, when sporting women were allowed to be ogled and weren’t labeled “dykes”. This vintage set of drinking glasses features ladies golfing, skiing, sledding, and playing football — on the...
View ArticleOh, Mighty Isis!
Screw Shazam!, The Secrets of Isis was the show for me on TV. Here’s a vintage copy of the CBS show’s graphic novel or comic illustrated by Jack Sparling, featuring the erotic-dream-inspiring JoAnna...
View ArticleWhat’s Underwear Doing In A Nudist Colony?
The Bishop’s Jaegers, by horne Smith: “A wickedly gay & irrepressible novel about young love and a nudist colony.” The cover illustration, one of the “many wonderful drawings by Herbert Roese,”...
View Article“Pornography For Profit” Concern of P-TA Group
“The extent and the influence of the smut peddler in the Syracuse community” was the theme for a meeting, according to the Syracuse Post Standard (March 8, 1965). Nicholas J. Esce, attorney, and member...
View ArticleElizabeth Ann Roberts
Elizabeth Ann Roberts was the 16 year old model who landed Hugh Hefner in legal hot water in 1958. Here she is, in the same time period, posing as a harem girl — on a way-too loud animal print rug.
View ArticleNude Models Are Dolls
And men, their mannequins. A vintage Elmer Batters photo, which the seller says, is of living pose-able doll Joy Love.
View Article“The Jigsaw Puzzle For the Accomplished Voyeur”
I’m not sure how accomplished the voyeur who sits at home and does jigsaw puzzles is (Shouldn’t he be out & about, peeping in windows and whatnot?), but so reads the box on this vintage Bridget...
View ArticleSex History Link Round-Up, Valentine’s Day Edition
Author Irv O. Neil is inspired by vintage femdommes in books and film. Friend and lingerie blogger, Slip Of A Girl, was featured at Collectors Weekly discussing slips — what else? The truth behind the...
View ArticleVintage Burlseque & Girlie Show Ads
A collection of vintage print advertisements for live entertainment… “Oriental Fantasy” at Frank Sennes’ Moulin Rouge boasts of “Geisha Girls from Tokyo.” Advertorial with photo of Tornado Tonja, who...
View ArticlePajama Tops
A vintage ad for Greta Thyssen‘s Pajama Tops show at Le Grande Theatre; circa 1960.
View ArticleAnother Sex History Link Round-Up From Silent Porn Star
1) A Queer History of Computing: “an effort to question the assumption that the technical and the sexual are so easily divided.” Jacob Gaboury is working on this concept as a series: Over the coming...
View ArticleVirgins For The Cardinal
Virgins For The Cardinal, one of many randy religious-themed titles in The Monk’s Library series by Star Distributors. Star was a New York City-based adult book company which began in 1971, under the...
View ArticleYour Nostalgia May Not Be My Nostalgia: An Aesthetic Response To Vintage Smut
Most of you know that I don’t divulge a lot about myself at this blog. That’s by design. And so, it was difficult to decide just how to address Mike’s past comments about my comments about the retro...
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