Házibuli: Orgy Party
A long time ago I published this detail from what I called “a grand-scale 16-person orgy scene” by Hungarian artist Alexander Székely. I noticed at the time that the artwork had a page number, so I wondered if there might not be an entire portfolio of Alexander Székely orgy party art out there. I couldn’t find it back then, but I’ve for damn sure found it now!
The 1962 portfolio is Házibuli: un bal chez elles. That seems to be a mix of Hungarian and French; roughly “House Party: a dance where the women live” but I’m sure there’s nuance that a good translator could render better. What strikes me about these epic orgy scenes is how well they work as great parties, with live music, dancing, amazing food, and booze flowing like water:
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I must be thought rather a prude, I’ve yet to be invited to such a party :)
Wow, that’s a real find, Bacchus! Congratulations!
@Justin : same here. Pity…
There was a half-drafted paragraph that didn’t make it into the post because I was out of time. (Putting these numerous-image posts together is somewhat slow and painful because of the way that mechanical tasks of production multiply as the image set size goes up.) Anyway I still haven’t firmed up the thought, but a point I wanted to make was that even from the perspective of the artist’s fashionable European city of 1962, there’s a dreamlike quality to these imaginings of the ultimate sex party. Most who were alive in that era didn’t get invited to such parties because they either didn’t happen or were really fucking rare (pardon the pun). But a crucial difference between then and now is that back then, such parties were imaginable. They were the promise of the nascent sexual revolution even if the promise never came true for most. Whereas for those of us who first heard the words “AIDS” the same year we learned to jerk off, that promise became a bitter joke played on us by our elders, the ones we now call Boomers. A good orgy full of food and music and dancing was merely a logistical challenge in the sixties, a question of buying in the goodies and figuring out — as any good party organizer must — which of your friends would be cool enough and fun enough to make the party what you want it to be. By the 80s it would have been seen as a suicide pact, and now? People have a lot of sex, but it’s been almost half a century since the notion of sex as a large-group social activity had much currency. The word I keep wanting to apply to these images is “unimaginable” but of course that’s not literally true; the artist imagined these events and we can too. But there’s a critical difference, I’d argue, between his imaginings and ours. To a 2022 sensibility, these images are obvious fantasy, like unicorns or space pirates. I don’t think that would have been so, in anything like the same sense, to the 1960s and 1970s customers who purchased these art portfolios on paper in some louche bookstore in Paris or Budapest.
Lovely work and interesting analysis. Thanks!
I used to think I knew a lot about sex, but once again Erosblog has taught me something new. I was previously completely oblivious or rather unaware of this technique herein demonstrated by the young man on the red shirt where he has slung young blonde lady over his shoulder, and is carrying her with a finger stuck in her butt…
A gentleman always maintains a firm grip!
Thank you for your tireless searching, these are my new favorite pictures. The level of detail suggests that the artist painted from life. A banjo?!?
And then in No. 11, the vegetation is drawn with affectionate detail like a botanical drawing. In the same image, the gentleman in the top right has opened his fly but left the waistband fastened. I imagine he arrived on his bicycle and leapt into action without delay.
((chef kiss))
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