August 3rd, 2010 -- by Bacchus
Come Up And See My Etchings?
There’s a cliched pickup line dating back at least to the Victorian age. A certain sort of London rakehell might invite a certain sort of “lady” back to his rooms to “view his etchings” — by which he meant his collection of expensive erotic prints, purchased at great cost from a certain importer of printed goods from Paris, if you know what I mean and I think you do, wink wink nudge nudge.
This might have been one such etching:
Jahsonic says the print “depicts Messalina’s famous “Lassata, sed non satiata” scene told in the Satire VI by Juvenal in which Messalina worked in a brothel under the assumed name Lycisca, or ‘The Wolf-Girl’.
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I’m not sure what the third person is doing in the picture, they seem a bit bemused. What does it say about my internet browsing habits that my first thought was “drippy candle wax”?
Gem I’m confused, how can you worry about candle wax and not be sure what the third person (the one, er, holding the candle to illuminate the scene) is doing in the picture?
Sorry, I should have explained a bit better!
I meant my immediate thought was about candles being deliberately dripped over naked people, which is not something I had ever encountered outside of certain porn sites, and therefore means that I must browse these sites a lot for it to spring so readily into my mind. Example:
http://ads.sexa...9.jpg
It was only a second later, when I’d taken in a bit more of the scene, that I started to think: What is that person doing there anyway? If it’s a brothel, could they not have a candle-holder set into the wall? Or did he specifically ask for an extra person? Or does the dripping-candles kink genuinely go back much further into porn’s history than I would assume? Why does the extra person look like a thoughtful older woman? The artist is painting from imagination, so it’s a conscious decision to put three people in the scene, and some sort of washbowl too. Maybe if I was even slightly familiar with the Satire VI it would all make more sense…
Nice etching though. :-)
Gem – as a newbie to this fantastic (love the humour)site may I add my thoughts as to the purpose & actions of the third person ?
I think she is the lighting assistant looking pensive because she is unsure if in the right position for the softcore version…. it went straight to video & wax sealed rather than shrink wrapped so yes a bi-product from the shoot :-)