February 15th, 2017 -- by Bacchus
A Terror Of Clowns
Many people are scared of clowns. There may indeed be good reason for this:
From a cover of the pulp magazine Terror.
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February 14th, 2017 -- by Bacchus
A 1477 Valentine
The British Library calls this “probably the oldest surviving Valentine’s letter in the English language.” Addressed to “my right well-beloved Valentine John Paston”, the complete text revolves around the failed attempt to wring an increased dowry out of the writer’s parents:
Unto my right well-beloved Valentine John Paston, squire, be this bill delivered.Right reverent and worshipful and my right well-beloved valentine, I recommend me unto you full heartedly, desiring to hear of your welfare, which I beseech Almighty God long for to preserve unto his pleasure and your hearts desire. And if it pleases you to hear of my welfare, I am not in good health of body nor of heart, nor shall I be till I hear from you. For there knows no creature what pain that I endure, And even on the pain of death I would reveal no more. And my lady my mother hath laboured the matter to my father full diligently, but she can no more get than you already know of, for which God knoweth I am full sorry. But if you love me, as I trust verily that you do, you will not leave me therefore. For even if you had not half the livelihood that you have, for to do the greatest labour that any woman alive might, I would not forsake you. And if you command me to keep me true wherever I go, indeed I will do all my might you to love and never anyone else. And if my friends say that I do amiss, they shall not stop me from doing so. My heart me bids evermore to love you truly over all earthly things. And if they be never so angry, I trust it shall be better in time coming. No more to you at this time, but the Holy Trinity have you in keeping. And I beseech you that this bill be not seen by any non earthly creature save only yourself. And this letter was written at Topcroft with full heavy heart. Be your own Margery Brews.
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February 13th, 2017 -- by Bacchus
How Many Licks?
How many licks does it take to get to the center of your Valentine’s Day candy? It depends on the candy:
You’re looking at Eat Your Heart Out by DontFapGirl.
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February 12th, 2017 -- by Bacchus
Dildo Shopping In 1655
What did dildo shopping look like in the 1600s? Probably not much like this fanciful illustration, but hey, we might as well run the visual that we have:
This artwork is from The School Of Venus, or The Ladies Delight, Reduced Into Rules Of Practice, which is a 1680 translation of a 1655 sex manual (using the term pretty loosely) published in French as L’École des filles.
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February 10th, 2017 -- by Bacchus
Sophia Loren Making Pizza
Hey, random internet louts, I gotta question: why demand a sandwich when you could instead have Sophia Loren make you a pizza?
This photo is all over Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram, Imgur, and a thousand social photoshare sites you’ve never even heard of. Which poses a considerable challenge to an intrepid provenance researcher like your not-so-humble reporter, because “Woot, Sophia Loren making pizza!” is emphatically not an attribution. However, I may be up to the challenge. Machine translation of this page seems to attribute the photo to Loren’s 1971 cookbook In Cucina Con Amore, which makes enough sense to be entirely believable.
The book is still available in many editions and languages — can anybody with a copy confirm that this photo appears in it?
UPDATE: After a helpful commenter Alexandra confirmed the photo did not appear in at least one edition of the cookbook, two different people independently took up this research challenge and triumphantly gnawed it into submission, getting us both a “photo not after” date of May 1955 and a “likely first place of publication” in a British magazine. Both Lena in the ErosBlog comments and Chloe Luv on Twitter found this picture that was shot in the same kitchen and photoshoot:
What’s more, they both identified it as the cover photo from the May 14, 1955 edition of the British magazine Illustrated containing a feature called “Sophia’s Pizza Pie”:
I am delighted beyond words that two different people reacted to my incomplete (and somewhat wrong) results from a hasty ten minutes of research and decided to do the job correctly. Thanks so much!
It turns out there’s at least one copy of this magazine available for sale on the internet. It’s one of my dreams (if-and-when the ErosBlog Patreon really takes off) to be able to follow up finds like this by ordering the paper artifact and making complete scans available for my readers, for my patrons, and for our digital posterity. But I can’t afford that sort of expenditures yet, so in the meanwhile, if anybody wants to procure that magazine and send it to me, I’d be happy to scan it on a “loaner” basis and return the paper artifact to its rightful owner.
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February 9th, 2017 -- by Bacchus
Rescuing A Sword Dancer
This sexy sword dancer is via Kinky Delight:
Just a tiny bit of research turns up a page telling us that the art is part of an inside illustration from a 1963 Male magazine for a story called “WWII’s Boldest Kidnap Raid”. The artist is Emmett Kaye painting as Mort Kunstler (sometimes given as Künstler).
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February 8th, 2017 -- by Bacchus
Fanny Hill: Free Audiobook Version
It has come to my attention that thanks to LibriVox, the people who provide free public domain audiobooks recorded by volunteer readers, there are not one but two different complete recordings of John Cleland’s Fanny Hill: The Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure.
The first dates from 2006, runs to 9.5 hours, and is recorded by an assortment of volunteers who read different chapters. The second is from 2016 and features a single reader, who (to my ear) does a better job of bringing the somewhat archaic phrasings to life, while cutting about half an hour off the listening times. You may find these Internet Archive download links more convenient than the LibriVox ones:
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (2006 rec)
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (2016 rec)
Enjoy!
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