Somebody’s Wife

Seeing as Bacchus has recently posted on both witches and art that is rather irreverent toward Catholicism now is probably a good time to offer an illustration of an 1888 work by Albert von Keller, about whose work as an eroticist I’ve blogged about here before. It is the ominously-titled Gothic fantasy Hexenverbrennung, or Witch Burning.

There is plenty of room for shock here, but the thing I find most striking is the expression on the victim’s face.

Not the fear and agony one would expect. Evidence perhaps that ecstasies of martyrdom are not limited to strictly Catholic contexts.

Similar Sex Blogging:

• The Vigin Mary, Nude In (Mexican) Playboy
• Heavenly Ecstasy

Dworkin on Blowjobs

A while back I linked to a fun essay on blowjobs in the Village Voice, which talked about the way dominance and submission add to the heat of the cocksucking experience for both parties. There was briefly on Yes Portal a response taking serious issue, too serious I might argue, with that view of the blowjob. What’s most interesting about the response, however, is this characterization of Andrea Dworkin’s writings on blowjobs:

In her book Mercy, she [Dworkin] described a blow-job as “stretching muscles that can’t be stretched” and warned women curious about the act, that “the pain will push you down to hell, near death, to coma, to the screamless scream, an agony, no voice, a ripped muscle, shreds swimming in blood in your throat.”

Isn’t that the saddest thing you ever saw? I’m thinking maybe Dworkin was doing it wrong.

Similar Sex Blogging:

• Six More Christmas Blowjobs
• Feminist Porn Wars
• Paging Andrea Dworkin
• A Man Enjoys His Politics
• Suspect in Feminist Circles