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The Sex Blog Of Record
Friday, May 7th, 2021 -- by Bacchus
New podcast just dropped! I am delighted to help share the news that Dr. Faustus has released the first episode of his fascinating new project: The Squick Or Squee Podcast. (Click here to listen.) The podcast theme is dark erotic art, the first guest is artist Shon Richards, and it seems to me that the enterprise is off to a promising start!
Longtime ErosBlog readers will remember Dr. Faustus from his time as a guest blogger, in which role he authored dozens and dozens of posts covering sexual topics both erudite and recondite. He’s a personal friend, a generous and stalwart drinking companion, a prolific blogger, and a liberal patron of the erotic arts, having commissioned all of the artwork for his free erotic comics series Tales of Gnosis College and Fabulae Atroces Fausti plus much else besides. In recent years he’s been a frequent and popular guest on podcasts such as The Grindbin, The Mustachioed Podcastio, and Bloody Bits. And now, finally and to my great excitement, he has his own show!
The Squick Or Squee Podcast is conceived as an interview show for artists who create dark erotic art. What does that mean, precisely? Don’t ask me, and don’t guess. Instead, read the 8-page, profusely-illustrated prospectus. Meanwhile, Faustus is eager to have it known that he’s actively soliciting additional guests. He writes:
If you’re an artist who makes dark erotic art and would like to chat for an hour or so with me, I’d be very interested to hear from you!
That’s enough of my carnival barking. Just go and listen already!
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Thursday, May 6th, 2021 -- by Bacchus
At first glance this illustration looks like a perfect example of mad-scientific erotica. If sexology is a science, this could be a perfectly-normal sex lab:
Sadly, it’s from a spread in the November 1965 Adam magazine titled “Why A Woman Can’t Be Like A Man.” My scanset is incomplete and doesn’t include whatever non-lurid back pages contained most of the text, so we’ll never know what sexist nonsense Dr. Irwin Ross was selling.
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Sunday, March 24th, 2019 -- by Bacchus
Her erotic experiments have not been going well, but this erotic mad scientist persists. I’m not going to bet against her!
Artwork is by Dany.
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Saturday, July 28th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
I’ll confess to not being as regular about Sharing Our Shit on Saturday as I would like to be, but here I am today on this particular Saturday with some excellent shit to share:
- That industrious patron of the arts and my good friend Dr. Faustus has been busy since the last time I shared his publications and productions. Recent output includes editions of his comic Bubbles in Hebrew (עברית), Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt), and Bengali (বাংলা). The third chapter is now available in The Adventures of Ashley Madder, and there has been a substantial revision/addition to the comic Bait, announced here. Four new pieces of commissioned art supplementary to Bait (or pendant to it, if you prefer the word that Dr. Faustus uses) have also been published: here and here and here and here. And finally, all the Bait goodies have a permanent secure home at the Internet Archive now. I swear I don’t know how Faustus does it!
- The Rialto Report continues its ambitious project of making high-quality scans of porn magazines from forty years ago. This time it’s a visit to 1980 with the issues from that year of Cinema-X Review and Adam Film World.
- Ten Things I’ve Learned From 10 Years Of Sex — a really smart bit of writing from Kate Sloan at Girly Juice. I sure as shit didn’t learn that much in my first ten years of having sex, and in a lot more than ten years I never learned to write paragraphs so nice and tight.
- I appreciate a good obsession as well as the next person, so I am in awe of this post at Vanilla Spanking that explores at 3,500-word length (plus extensive visual material) the question of whether there was ever a Tarzan movie in which Jane gets a spanking. One word answer: no. But every near-spanking and situation in which Tarzan threatens to spank somebody is lovingly detailed, and the one funny-papers comic-strip panel in which Tarzan does spank an abusive lady big game hunter is presented in both its as-originally-published and later-reprint spanking-censored-out versions. Obsessions, man, long may they wave!
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2012 -- by Bacchus
Don’t worry, I’m not going all Hubbard on your ass. But you know how it is, lab coats and padded cells:
“Dr. Lee, how long has the patient been in restrictive punitive sensory deprivation?”
“Six hours, Dr. Madeline.”
“Very good. I think it’s time to move on to the aversive sensory over-stimulation phase of her treatment. Help me glove up, please…”
From Whipped Ass.
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2012 -- by Bacchus
Dr. Faustus is our resident expert on erotic mad science, of course, but I am still capable of recognizing it when I see it. And I’m seeing it now as I page through the panels of The Clinic, by Erenisch (from Dofantasy). That is, it’s erotic mad science if by “erotic” you mean “she’ll do anything she’s told” and by “science” you mean “technologies for destroying female volition”. (If you think the world isn’t full of men who would turn into generous patrons of science if that’s what science actually meant, you haven’t looked under enough rocks lately.) Also, and this was the dead giveaway, all the best mad science has the fellow chortling as he works:
Believe it our not, our villain is working on Zombie Sex Slave Technology #2 in the panel above; he’s already perfected ZSST #1 in the form of an “on button” that works … well, let’s watch, shall we?
Once that button is on, her brain is not quite hers any more:
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Saturday, October 1st, 2011 -- by Dr. Faustus
All of you reading this who’ve ever wanted to put out a publication that reflects their own erotic vision, kindly raise your hands. (In my imagination, I now see a mighty forest of raised hands.) In middle life I have observed that I am not getting younger, and so I decided to take the publication plunge.
The result is The Apsinthion Protocol, which I wrote and Lon Ryden drew. Life might seem normal at Gnosis College, where the undergraduates pass halcyon days in study, frolic, and humiliating fraternity rituals. But behind its ivy-covered walls lurk faculty mad scientists who look out at their reckless, oversexed students and think, “what outstanding fodder for my work they would make!” Weird experiments that would never pass muster with the human subjects research committee are undertaken, and soon comely coeds are melting in ecstasy. [Editor’s note: That “melting in ecstasy” bit is emphatically not metaphorial. — Bacchus.] But when a senator’s daughter goes missing, things begin to spin out of control.
If you think this pulpy, porny concoction might just be your test tube of tea, I have good news. It’s all available for the great price of free. You can get a reasonably compact (~47MB) PDF file of the entire 205-page comic via direct download by clicking on the graphic above (or here) and you can also get high-resolution PDFs, CBZ comic book archive versions, and E-book reader (*) versions of the comic by visiting the master download page. And it is also archived online here. (And not only is this comic free, it’s also published under a Creative Commons license, so not only are you free to download, you’re free to share to your heart’s content.)
And so what am I going to do now that I’ve achieved this curious life’s ambition? Well, surely I’m not going to stop at just a single volume. For The Apsinthion Protocol is projected as the first of a series called Tales of Gnosis College. So I think I’ll get busy serializing the second volume of the series, Study Abroad, starting…today!
(A note on E-book readers. Comics-to-ebook conversion is still a bit of experimental technology for me. I’ve made several versions for the standard Kindle and they seem to look decent, but please understand that your results might vary by device. If you have a different device, it might be possible for me to customize a version for that device. If you would like me to try, feel free to contact me and I’ll see what I can do for you as soon as I reasonably can. Happy reading!)
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 -- by Bacchus
So Franklin Veaux has been working for awhile on a sex toy controller he calls “The Tormenter.” Apparently it features a programmable Arduino board so that an insertable buzzy sex toy can be turned on and off in unpredictable patterns over a lengthy period of time, for the purpose of arousing, but not satisfying, the user.
I’ve seen his tweets from time to time, but I’ve been kinda “Meh, mad science” about the idea. But he recently tested a prototype, and I have to say, I quite enjoyed reading the test subject Lapis Lazuli’s subjective impressions:
The device cycles between 11 different patterns (for now), and is USB enabled so that more can be uploaded. But those patterns aren’t static. Like, there’s one that’s just on-off pulses, but that pattern picks a random number of pulses each time. Even if I recognized it, I didn’t know how long it would last. And there were a few longer patterns that started with on-off pulses, too, so I didn’t know that it wouldn’t turn into one of those.
So, between the randomness of pattern order, and the random variables within individual patterns, I couldn’t recognize any of them. This functioned as intended.
Some of the patterns were really short, some were really long, most were in between. The short ones were just enough to remind me that I was wearing a vibrator in public, but not long enough for me to get any pleasure from. The long ones were agonizing because they actually did arouse me, and yet weren’t long enough for me to do anything about it. The medium-duration ones were sufficiently arousing and frustrating. I believe at the time I said the average duration should be longer, so that there would be more arousal (and therefore frustration) and less simple startle.
Just more proof, as if we needed any, that mad science is nothing without enthusiastic test subjects.
Saturday, February 13th, 2010 -- by Bacchus
Ladies, hide your daughters! Gentlemen, light your cigars and prepare your instruments! The rest of you lot, listen up!
You all know Faustus, the gentleman who, in seventy-seven ErosBlog posts since February of last year, has dazzled and delighted you (or, possibly in some cases, confused you) with his rich mix of erudition, erotica, and eclairs. (Well, actually we did not get any eclairs. I made that bit up.) From the hedonics of engineered catgirl sex slaves to the fetish aesthetics of The Creature From The Black Lagoon, from the fabled fleshpots of Asia to the thinly-disguised lusts captured in marble and pigment in the echoing museums and churches of Europe, from tentacle sex to sexy robots — I could go on and on, but you get the idea. Incredible breadth and scope, yadda yadda.
It was inevitable — and a consummation devoutly to be wished — that he should eventually start a website of his own. Fear not! He’ll still blog here — regularly I hope — but now he’ll blog as well (and do so much else, besides) at his new site. Can I get a drumroll, please? The site:
Erotic Mad Science
The cliche would be “the title says it all” but of course, when it comes to Dr. Faustus, that would be impossible. His initial post says some of it, though:
Do cheesy science fiction movies do something for you? Would you go (or have you ever gone) to see a midnight performance of Invasion of the Bee Girls? Have you ever shared the monster’s point of view in Creature from the Black Lagoon? Did you find it at least mildly titillating Virginia Bruce was (theoretically) running around without any clothes on in the 1940 film The Invisible Woman? Have you ever thought perhaps that H.P. Lovecraft might even cooler if he weren’t so damn sex-negative? Do you infer a line of artistic influence from Katsushika Hokusai to Toshio Maeda? Do you think it would be sexier to be Victor Frankenstein than Elvis?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, then perhaps this site is for you.
Erotic Mad Science is still new, but it’s already got plenty to keep you busy. There’s a manifesto (you knew there had to be). There are posts about absinthe, British radio comedy, and the eroticism of water (this last illustrated in part with a stunningly erotic 20th-century re-imagination of The Birth Of Venus):
But here’s the best part: all of these are related — in ways Faustus alone can explain — to what is sure to be the crown jewelry of Erotic Mad Science. I refer to a body of work commencing with The Apsinthion Protocol, which according to Dr. Faustus “is the first of seven long stories in my Gnosis College mad science series.” Written as screenplays, these Gnosis College stories (I am privileged to have read some, but not yet all, of them, though only the first appears — yet — on Erotic Mad Science) are…
Fuck it. I’m not even going to try to describe them. Faustus has a whole website for that project, let him do the heavy lifting. It will probably take him awhile, so there’s much to look forward to.
Meanwhile, though, I quote from A Brief Introduction to Gnosis College, just to whet your pervy appetites:
The Gnosis campus is bordered by another institution of higher education, St. Mary Magdalene College, a Catholic women’s college jokingly referred to as the Virgin Vault by some Gnosis people. SMMC is run by an order of nuns who keep alive the otherwise moribund tradition of colleges functioning in loco parentis toward their students. It is thus a much-favored school for families with traditional values and problematical daughters. The gates are locked tightly every night at nine. SMMC doesn’t appear in The Apsinthion Protocol, but will in a forthcoming script, Progress in Research.
On the outskirts of Pleasant Prairie we find another institution, a juvenile detention facility called the State Home for Wayward Girls, which is pretty much what it sounds like. (The state has given it another, nicer, name which no one can readily recall.) This place too will appear in a future script, most prominently in Invisible Girl, Heroine.
Add it to your bookmarks, people; this may take awhile.
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