April 8th, 2009 -- by Bacchus
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April 8th, 2009 -- by Bacchus
Bride, By Toilet
Ever since the internet opened for me that vast and still largely-unexplored cultural frontier that is Japanese porn, I have been having moments of wonder and puzzlement. (At other times, retching; but with a few notable exceptions — *cough* eels *cough* — I try not to share those.)
This picture is pretty. But, er, the toilet?
Via alt. binaries. pictures. erotica. asian.
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April 7th, 2009 -- by Bacchus
Worshiping The Shoe He Walks In
As you might imagine, well-meaning readers send me a lot of “funnies” for possible blogging, which I always appreciate even as I (sometimes) marvel. It is, after all, the case that there are places ErosBlog generally doesn’t go. For instance, my distaste for what I’ve called “old-school bitch-slut-whore porn marketing” makes me reticent about using words like “bitch” and “slut” and “cunt” as labels for people; it’s widely done, and can be quite funny in an appropriate context, but it’s not my style and you won’t usually catch me doing it. (That’s code for “Check all 2340 ErosBlog posts since 2003. I dare ya. You might find one or two examples, because 2003 was a long time ago and a lot of water has run under the bridge since then. But I wouldn’t bet on it.”)
So the other day, when a reader sent me a well-meaning “funny” picture starring (if I recall properly, I didn’t look at it very closely) a woman on her knees wearing a leash or some such, with a caption making some version of a “Life’s a bitch” joke, it didn’t really get my full attention. “Somebody hasn’t been reading ErosBlog for very long”, I thought, as I sorted the email into an appropriate folder (you can guess which one). It’s not that don’t appreciate the helpful sentiment, but…is my “editorial voice” really that obscure?
This lengthy preface is really more than the post payload can support, so I suppose I ought to get down to business. I was reminded of all this when I encountered the following vintage shoe advertisement:
A woman, tastefully naked, on the floor, with an adoring look on her face, under the caption “Keep her where she belongs”, is not materially dissimilar in sentiment from the “funny” that I plonked the other day. But this bit of unreconstructed sexism I find amusing enough to share, unlike the other one. What’s difference?
I don’t actually have a good answer. I can list off a number of things, but they all boil down to matters of taste and style:
1) This version eschews crude labels and language;
2) This version has interest as a vintage period piece, as a mirror onto another time;
3) In this version, the woman is smiling (I’m a sucker for a nice smile);
4) The bizarre presence of the advertised shoe creates absurdist humour;
5) She’s really pretty.
Fairly shallow reasons all, and yet, enough to tip the balance between “inflict it on my readers” and “sort it gently into the trash”.
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April 5th, 2009 -- by Bacchus
Hoodie Girl
You’ve got to love vintage glamor photography where the girls aren’t wearing any undies:
These days, I associate this kind of picture with photoshoots in Esquire magazine featuring respectable actresses who think themselves under-appreciated.
April 3rd, 2009 -- by Bacchus
Sexual Relief In Pompeii
When I was ten or twelve, I read an old-even-then collection of essays and short stories by Arthur C. Clarke that imagined some of the ways in which telecommunications satellites would undermine the power of nations. Of course the one that caught my attention was the speculation about satellite TV, written before there was such a thing, in which Clarke vividly described how some insurgent power might use the new technology to beam subversive erotica into every house in the world. In his description of the programming — and understand that I am operating on a decades-old memory here — he included an imagination of a show, nominally highbrow and educational, that focused on vivid and colorful examples of Roman erotic art of Pompeii. (Visionary though he was, Clarke did not predict the Spice channel.) [Update: false memory; it was not Pompeii.]
Thus began my interest in the classics.
It was to be many years, of course, before I saw what he was talking about:
Image found here.
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March 30th, 2009 -- by Bacchus
Topless Barbershops?
There used to be at least one:
That’s a scene from Florencio’s Men’s Salon in Los Angeles, as portrayed in the September 1964 Gent magazine, via Vintage Scans. One can only imagine how much time they had to spend brushing the hairs off themselves with those little hogs-bristle brushes.
March 27th, 2009 -- by Bacchus
Naked Kombat
NakedKombat.com, the new not-yet-out-of-beta male wrestling site/channel from Kink Men. Is it fighting, or fucking?
A little bit of both, as it turns out.
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