July 23rd, 2026 -- by Bacchus
Why Rich Men Buy Boats
This is Camella Donner, cruising back in 1978 for Mayfair magazine off of Antigua in the Lesser Antilles:
The Donner Party jokes write themselves!
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July 20th, 2026 -- by Bacchus
She Ought To Try It Again
I am wary about over-reliance on sex-negative tropes about women in general (or wives in particular) not liking particular sexual practices, such as anal sex or cum swallowing. But I never get tired of online couples humor like this, where moms get all preachy about the value of trying new things (in the context of child-rearing or their spouses) and then get outraged when their husbands suggest that they take their own advice in the bedroom:
Since the audio might be a bit soft, here’s a transcription:
Her: …try stuff eight to 10 times before they can determine if they like something or not.
Him: It takes eight to 10 times to figure out if you like something?
Her: So, like, our oldest doesn’t like peas, but he’s only tried them twice. He needs to try them a good six, eight more times before he can determine if he really don’t like them or not.
Him: You know, I know something you need to try a few more times.
Her: Zachary!
She knows precisely what he’s talking about, too.
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July 18th, 2026 -- by Bacchus
Sex Education: Learn By Doing
This cartoon from the March 1973 issue of Oui magazine puts the exhaustion in “exhaustive sex education”. She’s got a sexual positions chart and she doesn’t plan to let him rest until they work through all twelve positions on it:
The uncropped artwork is signed Hoviv (for French cartoonist René Hovivian) and further features an ashtray full of cigarette butts. It’s easy to forget that people used to smoke every damned where. Surely this wasn’t good for our exhausted hero’s sexual stamina or for his erectile performance!
I couldn’t resist a final zoom-in on her sexual to-do list…
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July 16th, 2026 -- by Bacchus
The View From Up Here Is Amazing!
The sun-worshipping nude is Marika Van Doorn in the August 1978 issue of the British men’s magazine Mayfair.
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July 14th, 2026 -- by Bacchus
Sex Is The Primary Reason That Marriages Fail
We’ve spent almost a quarter century here at ErosBlog writing about sex, and in that time the quality and frequency of marital sex has been a topic often discussed. So it will hardly be novel to read Dr. Richard Wadsworth’s perspective that sex is the primary reason that marriages fail or succeed:
Sex is the primary reason that marriages fail or succeed.
As a psychiatrist and a medical doctor, this is not opinion, this is not an over generalization.
This is fact. Marriages fail because they’re not having good enough sex. And they’re not having good enough sex because the marriage is failing.
This will be one of the very first questions that a good therapist should ask. How often are you having sex? And rate the quality from 1 to 10. And if the frequency is low, and if the quality is low, the next question needs to be why.
That should be the very first thing addressed in most marriages. And you try to resolve that why as quickly as possible. Because at the heart of it, either he is not attracted to her or she is not attracted to him, and marital intimacy is not happening. And that means dopamine is not being released. That means oxytocin is not being released. That means that the brain is not associating their partner with pleasure and joy and acceptance and happiness. And instead, their brain is associating their partner with rejection and hurt. And it will lead to a divorce.
Now, there can be very legitimate reasons why marital intimacy is not happening. He cheated, or he’s looking at porn, or he’s terrible at it, or she treats me like a child, or he’s acting like a child, or I feel like it’s a chore. The reasons can go on and on and on and on. But these reasons have to be addressed so that the two partners can resume having marital intimacy as soon as possible, of the highest quality, and at least three to five times a week.
That’s based on statistics. That is what happily married couples do. And they do it because they’re happily married. And they’re happily married because they do it.
All of the neurotransmitters that are released when a person makes love causes you to like the other person. You will become a good spouse. Generally. There’s always exceptions.
Now, typically, people do not want to have sex unless all four types of love are addressed in the relationship. Number one: friendship. Number two: romance. Number three: familial love. And number four: sexual love. Usually,
people are not having sexual love because one of these other relationships, these types of love, is broken somehow. You need to fix it as quickly as possible so that you can make love as often as possible with the highest quality possible. Sometimes one partner just doesn’t even know how to do it correctly, and so it’s miserable for their partner.All of these things need to be explored. And all of this should be the first conversation that you have with a therapist. Therapist that go in there and they start talking about, well, what happened when you were a child
or this, that and the other. Sure, but that’s not gonna fix the marriage. Sex is going to fix the marriage. Doing it, or figuring out why you’re not doing it, or doing it correctly.I know this is not a popular solution. You can pretend to ignore psychology and biology and physiology and neuroscience. Biochemistry. You can pretend like it’s not important, and you’ll be wrong, and then you’ll get divorced. You can’t ignore biology and win in the end.
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July 12th, 2026 -- by Bacchus
Adults Making Adult Decisions
I’m sure it’s a controversial position in some circles, but this by Josie Marcellino does make a substantial point:
If you’re of the belief that becoming a mattress actress [porn performer] at 18 is predatory and a bad idea because you’re still not fully formed and you don’t know what you’re doing to yourself, you do have to believe the same thing about getting married and having children at 18.
I want to raise my own hand in objection to anyone who proposes to tell adults when or why they should fuck. If you want to argue about how we define adults these days (it’s trendy recently to talk about prefrontal cortexes and when they stop growing) that’s a fair conversation. But no fair carving out sex as a special category that lets us sneer at the adult decisions adults make, especially if you want to divide it into goodsex and badsex subcategories with different rules. People are adults, or they’re not. You respect the decisions adults make about sex, or you can fuck right off.
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July 10th, 2026 -- by Bacchus
Skinny Dipping In The Greek Isles
This is said to be a trio of “co-eds” from California, on the Greek island of Rhodes, for the August 1973 issue of California Girl magazine:
The models are identified as Kikki Rome, Gail Day, and Angela Pascale, and they are certainly lovely!
Update: Whoops! I posted one of these photos previously, several years ago.
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