Comments on: Nothing On But The Radio http://www.erosblog.com/2009/10/26/nothing-on-but-the-radio/ Sex Blogging, Gratuitous Nudity, Kinky Sex, Sundry Sensuality Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:00:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jim http://www.erosblog.com/2009/10/26/nothing-on-but-the-radio/#comment-113682 Jim Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:36:35 +0000 http://www.erosblog.com/?p=4011#comment-113682 One of the interesting things about the first cameras was that painters immediately seized on the idea of using them with their models - they could take a large number of poses and then have a record of the ones they liked and being artists, naturally the models were nude. It saved them a lot of time and the models were relieved of not having to hold a pose for a long period of time in a drafty and cold studio... It was only after a few visitors to their studios had offered to buy the pictures, did the artists realize they could make a fair penny by selling the photos on their own… thus the “Spicy French Postcards” we have all heard about over the years… When the “skin flick” movies first came out, the brothels in this country and in Europe bought them up to provide a cheaper form of entertainment than staging vignettes – it also freed up the girls to keep working at their craft… The movies were very risqué until a number of unfortunate incidents in Hollywood, which infuriated the public [ex. The Fatty Arbuckle Rape Trial, etc.] and caused the law to get involved – principally, the Hayes Office and its Movie Code. The Marx Brothers and May West had all been actors before they hit the screen and they found that what they could say on Broadway wasn’t allowed on the silver screen – but being the subversives they were, still managed to slip in all sorts of things – augmented by Groucho’s blatant leer… Radio and TV, unfortunately, were from the beginning highly regulated by the government – TV came of age in the Eisenhower Administration with the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the Communist Witch Hunts – and very few things slipped through – heck, they couldn’t even show an actual husband and wife in bed together [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz] and god forbid she mention the fact that she became pregnant… Thank god for the internet – but note that there are a lot of forces trying to censure what happens here – and they have to be stopped before they sink their claws into it… Jim2 – I think you’re thinking of Charlie McCarthy – but spot on about the current crop of dummies (http://maewest.blogspot.com/2007/12/mae-west-risqu.html) On a side note – just why do we have the FCC still regulating TV? As every station is now digital, shouldn’t this agency be disbanded, since they no longer have a function?? Just an idea………. One of the interesting things about the first cameras was that painters immediately seized on the idea of using them with their models – they could take a large number of poses and then have a record of the ones they liked and being artists, naturally the models were nude. It saved them a lot of time and the models were relieved of not having to hold a pose for a long period of time in a drafty and cold studio…

It was only after a few visitors to their studios had offered to buy the pictures, did the artists realize they could make a fair penny by selling the photos on their own… thus the “Spicy French Postcards” we have all heard about over the years…

When the “skin flick” movies first came out, the brothels in this country and in Europe bought them up to provide a cheaper form of entertainment than staging vignettes – it also freed up the girls to keep working at their craft…

The movies were very risqué until a number of unfortunate incidents in Hollywood, which infuriated the public [ex. The Fatty Arbuckle Rape Trial, etc.] and caused the law to get involved – principally, the Hayes Office and its Movie Code. The Marx Brothers and May West had all been actors before they hit the screen and they found that what they could say on Broadway wasn’t allowed on the silver screen – but being the subversives they were, still managed to slip in all sorts of things – augmented by Groucho’s blatant leer…

Radio and TV, unfortunately, were from the beginning highly regulated by the government – TV came of age in the Eisenhower Administration with the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the Communist Witch Hunts – and very few things slipped through – heck, they couldn’t even show an actual husband and wife in bed together [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz] and god forbid she mention the fact that she became pregnant…

Thank god for the internet – but note that there are a lot of forces trying to censure what happens here – and they have to be stopped before they sink their claws into it…

Jim2 – I think you’re thinking of Charlie McCarthy – but spot on about the current crop of dummies (http://maewest.blogspot.com/2007/12/mae-west-risqu.html)

On a side note – just why do we have the FCC still regulating TV? As every station is now digital, shouldn’t this agency be disbanded, since they no longer have a function?? Just an idea……….

]]> By: subbrian773 http://www.erosblog.com/2009/10/26/nothing-on-but-the-radio/#comment-113669 subbrian773 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:12:41 +0000 http://www.erosblog.com/?p=4011#comment-113669 I'm no expert but I recall reading that East German television was extra sexy because the regime wanted to discourage the watching of West German television, which was kinda critical of the whole "worker's paradise" thing. I’m no expert but I recall reading that East German television was extra sexy because the regime wanted to discourage the watching of West German television, which was kinda critical of the whole “worker’s paradise” thing.

]]> By: Bacchus http://www.erosblog.com/2009/10/26/nothing-on-but-the-radio/#comment-113666 Bacchus Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:36:16 +0000 http://www.erosblog.com/?p=4011#comment-113666 Sorry, Bleys. The post was written by Faustus but I screwed up while editing one of the images (to make it fit) and somehow the author flag got flipped. I've changed it back so it shows as a Faustus post now. Thanks for the heads up! Sorry, Bleys. The post was written by Faustus but I screwed up while editing one of the images (to make it fit) and somehow the author flag got flipped. I’ve changed it back so it shows as a Faustus post now. Thanks for the heads up!

]]> By: Bleys http://www.erosblog.com/2009/10/26/nothing-on-but-the-radio/#comment-113665 Bleys Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:11:01 +0000 http://www.erosblog.com/?p=4011#comment-113665 I'm confused. Is Bacchus back to referring to himself in the third person, or is this someone else? The post is attributed to Bacchus. I’m confused. Is Bacchus back to referring to himself in the third person, or is this someone else? The post is attributed to Bacchus.

]]> By: Jim2 http://www.erosblog.com/2009/10/26/nothing-on-but-the-radio/#comment-113661 Jim2 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:46:10 +0000 http://www.erosblog.com/?p=4011#comment-113661 I am not all that familiar with radio in the late 20's and early 30's, but there is a famous instance of Mae West making some risque comments (to Jerry Mahoney, called a dummy because he was inanimate, but still smarter than Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and Beck combined). Actually, if you listen to the Marx Brothers and others, there is a lot of suggestive, though not outright pornographic0 dialogue in their movies and Groucho's radio appearances. The censorsip we think of in radio and the movies in the past actually is a product of the mid-1930's. I suspect if you want to find radio porn, you would look at the first dozen years of radio when it was still largely an expermental and amateur medium. I am not all that familiar with radio in the late 20′s and early 30′s, but there is a famous instance of Mae West making some risque comments (to Jerry Mahoney, called a dummy because he was inanimate, but still smarter than Limbaugh, O’Reilly, and Beck combined). Actually, if you listen to the Marx Brothers and others, there is a lot of suggestive, though not outright pornographic0 dialogue in their movies and Groucho’s radio appearances. The censorsip we think of in radio and the movies in the past actually is a product of the mid-1930′s. I suspect if you want to find radio porn, you would look at the first dozen years of radio when it was still largely an expermental and amateur medium.

]]> By: M http://www.erosblog.com/2009/10/26/nothing-on-but-the-radio/#comment-113660 M Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:31:59 +0000 http://www.erosblog.com/?p=4011#comment-113660 You might also want to add the introduction/refinement of the woodblock printing techniques in 17th century Japan, that immediately led to the development of shunga prints (and kudos if you added an image by, say Hokusai). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunga Oh, and perhaps the introduction of "Page 2 Girls" would help suffering US newspapers recover. Here in Japan, that seems to do the trick. You might also want to add the introduction/refinement of the woodblock printing techniques in 17th century Japan, that immediately led to the development of shunga prints (and kudos if you added an image by, say Hokusai).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunga

Oh, and perhaps the introduction of “Page 2 Girls” would help suffering US newspapers recover. Here in Japan, that seems to do the trick.

]]> By: GvS http://www.erosblog.com/2009/10/26/nothing-on-but-the-radio/#comment-113659 GvS Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:13:45 +0000 http://www.erosblog.com/?p=4011#comment-113659 What sets broadcast media apart is that the ability to create content was highly restricted. As James pointed out, when anyone could get "on the radio", things took their natural course... As for writing, I recall reading (although I can't recall where) that one of the bits of graffiti found inside a pyramid was a verse expressing a preference for unshaved women. What sets broadcast media apart is that the ability to create content was highly restricted. As James pointed out, when anyone could get “on the radio”, things took their natural course…

As for writing, I recall reading (although I can’t recall where) that one of the bits of graffiti found inside a pyramid was a verse expressing a preference for unshaved women.

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