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February 2nd, 2018 -- by Bacchus

Anal “Training” With Heart

anal training silicone buttplugs with heart-shaped crystal bases

If the notion of this Heart Anal Trainer Kit puts little hearts in your eyes (or wherever), this is the toy for you!

The Heart Anal Trainer Kit includes three butt plugs that come in different sizes (small, medium, and large) and is perfect for both beginners that want to ease into anal exploration, and for advanced players that want to add more variety to their collection. Lightweight and comfortable, the buttplugs in this kit have tapered tips and are made of pure silicone with a satin-smooth texture that makes insertion a breeze and allow for extended wear. The red heart gem at the base of each plug adds a sexy and playful mood to complete the scene. Perfect for any occasion, the Heart Anal Trainer Kit adds lustfully erotic sensations to play time!

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February 1st, 2018 -- by Bacchus

Angel On A Chain

captured angel on a string

Because I am utterly innocent of the Japanese language and alphabet, I can’t provide any context for this smug-looking bastard in a silk top-hat leading a pretty female angel bare-footed down a busy street past dismayed (?) onlookers. All I can tell you is that it comes from this page of the January, 1960 issue of the legendary Japanese fetish magazine Kitan Club. The art itself might or might not be Japanese (although I think it is); that magazine was known to reproduce fetish material from all over the world and from every era.

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January 31st, 2018 -- by Bacchus

Reminder: Adjust Your Patreon Pledges

wealthy patrons making donations

Hey, everybody, just a quick reminder that it’s the final day of the month, so if you’ve been telling yourself that you want to adjust your Patreon pledges or add somebody, today is a very good day to do it!

Also I’ve been seeing a lot of folks make a point on Twitter that I think needs reinforcing: please never be ashamed to make a one or two dollar pledge! Yes, Patreon tried to shit all over these with a fee structure change not so long ago; yes, they had to backtrack after mass outrage. No, most of us never regained all the Patrons who cancelled their dollar pledges during that fiasco. But that’s really a side issue. Lots of folks seem to think a dollar pledge isn’t valued or appreciated like higher-dollar pledges. Nothing could be further from the truth! Bigger pledges come and go, but the little pledges are the reliable applause that makes creators feel supported and appreciated. My Patreon doesn’t have a lot of flashy rewards anyway; small pledges parse as authentic support for what I’m doing, whereas large ones can make me feel like I should be doing even more for my Patrons. It’s all to the good, but I just want to be crystal clear that pledges of any size are valued and honored. As always, thank you for your support!

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Credit: The image at the top of this post is taken from an illustration in an 1895 newspaper reporting on blizzard relief for hard-hit counties in Kansas and Nebraska.

 
January 30th, 2018 -- by Bacchus

Aphrodite Above It All

While researching images on commission, something went by in Google Search that caught my eye. In The Lives And Legends Of The Great Hermits And Fathers Of The Church (1902) there’s a curiously-modest painting by Sir Edward Burne-Jones depicting the 4th-century martyrdom of St. Dorothea after page 88. It’s good that the painting is modest, even shamefaced; a bunch of darkly-seen people bent over a mostly-unseen torture victim, which is all to the good given that the martyrdom was by all accounts a pointless, stupid, squalid, and bloody affair, as all such were. What caught my eye was an architectural detail. There’s this cupola, see, for keeping the rain off what I take to be a statue of Aphrodite (if that’s an apple clutched to her breast) who is looking down over all the grim festivities:

aphrodite watching the martyrdom of dorothea

My point? No point. Just that art, and art history, is sometimes deeply weird.

Update: I woke up seized of the need to go deeper. So I looked up the artwork beneath this photographic plate. Reader, this did not help. There were two versions of the watercolor made, according to Sotheby’s, and it’s not clear whether the one I’m about to show you is the same one photographed above or whether that one is the one destroyed by German bombing in 1942. Either way, why is naked Aphrodite rendered in blue? (Or it could be purple, I have a red/green color vision deficiency, so purple is a thing I never identify when it exists.) Yeah, “deeply weird” got weirder:

blue or purple aphrodite

(Detail is linked to uncropped artwork.)

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January 28th, 2018 -- by Bacchus

Amphibious Assault… Please!

I have to say that the scratch force of amphibious maritime assault troops assembled for “Operation Ocean” is more lightly equipped than is considered acceptable by most modern naval doctrines, but morale in the force is quite high:

topless scuba divers and snorkel amphibious assault troops

Artwork is signed “Gi. Torj” and is from the cover of Chacal No. 6.

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January 26th, 2018 -- by Bacchus

Jail For Bare-Kneed Flappers

Via Bondage Blog comes word that in 1921 they were jailing flappers for not rolling up their stockings properly:

jailed for naked knees headling

stocking violation photo

The full story, of course, is more complicated and interesting. The clippings above appeared in The Jacksonian in Cimerron, Kansas, but according to additional press accounts summarized in Posing A Threat: Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers by Angela J. Latham, the woman in question was a resident of Los Angeles, arrested in Atlantic City after wrangling physically and by all accounts rather successfully with a beach cop who took issue with (among other things) her bathing attire. Her name was Louise Rosine and she was described as looking “as powerful as Jack Dempsey.” She further expressed her contempt for local attitudes about body nudity by disrobing entirely once she arrived in jail, forcing the jail authorities to defend themselves from her body presence by pinning up sheets in front of her cell.

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January 25th, 2018 -- by Bacchus

Nudist Films Of The Late 1960s

Here’s a look at the state of mail-order pornography in the late 1960s, courtesy of the Ted Nelson’s Junk Mail Project via a couple of nudist 8mm film reel brochures (male or female subjects, color films available for 50% more money). Click my lightly-edited crops showing the “good parts” to see the complete brochures:

female nudist films brochure

male nudist film loops of the late 1960s

It’s interesting that the headers on the full brochures emphasizes “Unretouched” as a selling point; this makes me think that in an effort to avoid postal censorship and obscenity prosecutions, mail-order nudist films (and possibly nudist publications generally) must have passed through a phase where genitalia were airbrushed or otherwise obscured on the negatives with darkroom shenanigans before reproduction, publication, and distribution. There’s a lot I don’t know about the history of censorship; these little hints are tantalizing.

Also please note: I have it on good authority (via @textfiles) that the totally awesome Ted Nelson Junk Mail Project is currently in the red and could use donations, if that’s the sort of thing that floats your charitable boat.

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