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Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 -- by Bacchus
There’s an ancient pair of couplets that goes like this:
“Hurray, hurray!
The first of May!
Outdoor fucking
starts today!”
Noted wordplay expert Willard R. Espy in his book Another Almanac Of Words At Play says this is a modernized version of an older folk verse, thusly:
“Hurray, hurray!
The first Of May!
Hedgerow tupping
starts today!”
But, sadly, hedgerows have fallen almost as far out of fashion as that venerable word “tupping”, which anciently referred to the breeding of sheep, but had already become a synonym for “fucking” by Shakespeare’s time.
In honor of this venerable holiday, I offer some anonymous 20th-century outdoor gay orgy art:
Be sure to click the artwork to embiggen it — something that works more often than most people seem to realize here at ErosBlog.
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Monday, April 15th, 2024 -- by Bacchus
I don’t know if every good orgy has a fully-clothed orgy monitor, but this one definitely does:
From the cover of a vintage (1970s?) contact magazine aptly named Contact.
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Thursday, March 21st, 2024 -- by Bacchus
Whoever organized this orgy did a terrible job. That’s harsh, perhaps, but not I think unfair. The gender ratio of three women to seven men is not completely unworkable, but it becomes so if all the men just stand around with their peckers in their hands doing nothing. With a deep bench like these fellows have, there’s no excuse not to have at least four hands and two tongues touching each woman at all times:
From the vintage porn magazine Porno Club #6.
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Sunday, February 18th, 2024 -- by Bacchus
If you’re a man on a picnic with two pretty girls and you’re planning to turn the outing into a threesome sex tryst, what better way to get everyone’s clothes off than to propose a spot of skinnydipping? Has this gambit ever failed?
Photos are from the introductory scenes of a three-way outdoor sex photospread in the 1977 porn magazine Color Climax 092.
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2023 -- by Bacchus
There’s a lot going on in this orgy photo by Richard Fegley for the December 1972 issue of Playboy:
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Monday, July 10th, 2023 -- by Bacchus
I have long been partial to adult parodic versions of the Snow White story in which the seven dwarves show themselves to be the industrious little horndogs we all know they must be. Some extremely entertaining photography at Molly’s Daily Kiss had me looking back through my archives, and so I decided to put together a quick link roundup of dwarven dalliance, just for fun:
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Thursday, June 1st, 2023 -- by Bacchus
Some things truly never change. A threesome on a Nile river pleasure boat, two thousand years ago? Why not? If you’re rich, they let you do it:
Said to be a Roman fresco from the ruins of Pompeii.
An even richer man had an entire pleasure barge, because of course he did:
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Monday, November 28th, 2022 -- by Bacchus
Looking at this vintage erotic photo I honestly can’t tell whether these topless women in nice but not exotic-for-its-time lingerie are at a lesbian orgy, a sorority slumber party, or an extremely informal lineup at a small brothel. So to hell with it. I just made up a title that incorporates all of those possibilities!
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Monday, October 17th, 2022 -- by Bacchus
I feel like these five well-dressed couples all showed up for a picnic, but then somehow an orgy began to break out:
From a postcard (?) by Carl Robert Arthur Thiele.
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Monday, September 26th, 2022 -- by Bacchus
At first glance, this orientalist artwork by Schem looks a bit like a harem catfight to me, although it might just be a vigorous lesbian orgy. It’s hard to say!
The small amount of context I have might tip us toward the orgy theory. The artwork illustrated an article in the June 1938 issue of Le Journal Secret: Review D’éducation Sexuelle. Story title was L’Amour Sorcier chez les Arabes which, going strictly from English cognates, might mean something like “Sorcerer’s Love among the Arabs.” Presumably there’s nuance and connotation I’m missing?
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 -- by Bacchus
When you encounter this photo elsewhere on the web, usually it’s titled with words suggesting a lesbian orgy. Which is overselling it, yeah? I mean, I see thirty-five or forty naked women sitting on a tarp. Are they lesbians, even in the limited sense of the word as it is used by male-gaze pornographers? And about that orgy: sure, we’ve got a supersaturated solution of naked bodies. An orgy might precipitate out while we watch, but nothing in the photo suggests it’s happening just yet. Do lesbians even have orgies? Or is the lesbian orgy just another fantastical invention of male-gaze pornographers? Plus I have one final question: what the heck is going on with this lady?
Via Kinky Delight.
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2021 -- by Bacchus
Be honest: when you think of a naked Twister game, you always imagine it breaking down into a general orgy, don’t you? That certainly appears to be a concern Veronica is having right now, as she watches Archie and Betty enjoying the game a little too much:
Artwork is by Cactus34.
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021 -- by Bacchus
My long experience with porn advertising sales puffery extends all the way back to the era of porn magazines with unsupportable lurid headlines sold at sleazy newsstands in shrink wrap. I don’t care how loudly the headline proclaims “EXXXPLICIT ANAL PENETRATION!!!”, there’s a good chance she’ll be bent over a couch and the magazine will show you nothing but a view of her astonished face. That’s how grim the porn scene used to be, back when explicit porn came mostly from Europe and didn’t sell for cheap.
Thus I do not mind sharing my untrusting reaction to a porn shoot calling itself Filthy Young Harlots Blindfold Orgy. How filthy can we count on them being? Are they even genuine harlots? Will there be blindfolds? Is it truly an orgy? You see, I have questions. Nevertheless, I genuinely want to extend my congratulations to the title-writer, because that’s a title that makes me want to learn more.
The shoot is from Harmony Fetish via Kink Unlimited.
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Monday, March 16th, 2020 -- by Bacchus
A few days ago it was being widely reported that the mayor of Bugliano, Italy had prohibited orgies in an effort to stave off the spread of coronavirus:
The mayor of Bugliano, Italy has issued a statement prohibiting orgies and gang bangs anywhere inside the city limits. Additionally, threesomes and sex involving more than two people is also banned for the foreseeable future.
This instantly struck me as a traveller’s tale for the digital age — strange doings far away, impossible to verify, remixing literal falsehood into mythical truth. I told myself it was just too good to be real.
And I was not wrong: here’s the correction.
Turns out, it was a hoax!
The announcement was made through the prank Twitter account @CBugliano and was cleverly designed to look an official proclamation from Mayor Fabio Buggiani’s office.
Prohibited or not, I’m thinking it’s a good time to postpone your orgies and gangbangs.
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Monday, October 21st, 2019 -- by Bacchus
Every man likes a blowjob, but not every man enjoys having his blowjobs witnessed:
Art is by Tom Sargent.
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Saturday, May 18th, 2019 -- by Bacchus
Art is by Blas Gallego.
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Monday, October 22nd, 2018 -- by Bacchus
I am not a nautical person, but this looks like deplorable seamanship. It may, however, be rather better semenship:
A deplorable and ancient pun, true. But speaking in my own defense, ErosBlog has been since early in the month of October chugging into its sixteenth year of publication, and in all the time hither to now I believe I have resisted each former opportunity to use that particular pun. So, perhaps it was time.
The art is from the January 1977 Flick magazine.
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Thursday, September 27th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
How do you get four nubile women to have an orgy with you and you alone? Why, magic, of course! This is a promotional still from Gypsy Passions, a 1970 porn movie that’s all about the power of a good reading. Our hero crosses Madame Puntawaski’s palm with silver, gets some good advice and a powerful herbal preparation, and soon he can’t fight the ladies off with a stick, not that he’s particularly inclined to try:
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Thursday, September 6th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
In the 1979 sex romp Superwoman, the evil villainess “Kreeta Borgia” has a spaceship where the orgies never stop:
Photo is from the March 1980 Cinama-X Review.
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2018 -- by Bacchus
I suppose the unusual staging is mostly down to the demands of the pornographer’s camera, because it’s hard to otherwise explain the odd linearity of this orgy:
From Color Climax #90.
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Monday, August 6th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
This looks to me more like something they darkroom-edited together for the cover of the October 1977 Italian porn magazine Supersex than like a party that anybody actually partied — but what do I know? It was a long time ago, and I was a mere slip of a child.
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Thursday, March 15th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
On a certain warm spring night when the clock strikes midnight, young lovers who know the tradition congregate for an orgy in the oldest cemetery in the city. What better way to celebrate life?
Artwork is a detail from Dans Le Cimetière by Jean-Claude Forest (1981). Via Kinky Delight.
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
Spanking Blog has turned up a pulp vision of a Roman orgy with a sterner-than-usual Mistress Of Ceremonies. Do not flag, do not tire, or she will lash you back to the business of the evening!
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Friday, February 16th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
This upper-crust orgy looks just about perfect: large enough (six people) to be unequivocally an orgy, not so large as to be a circus or a series of sideshows, and best of all, everybody looks relaxed, comfortable, and as if they are enjoying themselves:
This orgy illustration is by an unknown artist (thought perhaps to be Berthommé Saint-André) appearing in an edition of Pibrac: Quatrains érotiques de Pierre Louys.
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Tuesday, May 30th, 2017 -- by Bacchus
According to artist bonete, they had epic scale orgies A Long Time Ago In Babilon, or so the full-scale art from which this detail comes would suggest:
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Friday, October 14th, 2016 -- by Bacchus
In this vintage artwork from Bill Ward via Kinky Delight, we’ve got a spot of quiet suburban group sex happening in somebody’s living room:
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Friday, September 23rd, 2016 -- by Bacchus
When these high-ranking military dudes get on an opulent galleon for a long ocean voyage, they like to travel in style, and they don’t plan on getting lonely:
Via Kinky Delight. Art is by Milo Manara.
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Saturday, July 16th, 2016 -- by Bacchus
This busy “airtight” woman is drawn by the French fetish comic artist Pyat:
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2015 -- by Bacchus
Source of this comic panel not known, but it’s signed “Olson” and it appears to have been on page 62 of whatever.
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015 -- by Bacchus
In that part of the world back then before television, they used to play a seriously kinky version of blind man’s bluff:
Artwork is probably by Alex Szekely.
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Monday, November 24th, 2014 -- by Bacchus
Imagine that you had a movie camera in Paris in 1928 and the notion came upon you to make the most offensive possible six-minute-long film. What might you pick for your subject?
Via Spanking Blog we learn of one good candidate for a universally-offensive topic. You might make a movie called Messe Noire (“Black Mass” in English) that features a highly-unlikely Satanic ritual, complete with blood drinking, chained sacrifices, lots of naked celebrants, and plenty of balls-flapping humping during the obligatory ceremonial orgy. Special effects — made by scratching the negative — to include eerie glowing stars on foreheads:
Spanking Blog liked it for all the vintage butts on display, and for the whipping scene. But it’s the mixture of pure porn and sheer transgressive chutzpah that earns it a place on ErosBlog:
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014 -- by Bacchus
In days of yore if a few young people wanted privacy for a nice discreet orgy, one of the best ways to obtain said privacy was to climb into one or more small boats and row across a lake to an isolated bit of sunny shore. As was done here:
This bit of orgy art is attributed to Paul-Emile Bécat.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2014 -- by Bacchus
All those simmering sexual rivalries, resolved in one good orgy. I’m a little surprised Reggie’s not there, though; I would have thought Veronica would have insisted!
Artist is Aries, who often draws for Dofantasy.com but I’d guess not in this case.
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2014 -- by Bacchus
This sort of carrying-on is pretty much the only way you could justify those exclusive-club bottle prices in the champagne room:
Art is by Milo Manara, from his Porte de Clichy erotic portfolio.
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Friday, December 20th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Ever since Disney released Snow White in 1937, people have been drawing parodic porn to show what she and the dwarves really got up to when nobody was looking:
This contemporary example is detail from a jokey 1938 holiday card in Spanish.
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Sunday, October 13th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
One of the joys of the erotic graphic novel is that scenarios can be drawn that would be exquisitely difficult (or prohibitively expensive) to enact in real life, or even in filmed porn. I do not doubt that in the long history of Parisian pleasure houses there have been some that could provide six dominatrices at once for sufficiently wealthy clients, but it must have been both rare and expensive:
Art is from a French sex comic called Coco.
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Sunday, June 23rd, 2013 -- by Bacchus
This is a detail from Romans of The Decadence, by Thomas Couture:
Via Kinky Delight.
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Friday, April 26th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Today’s moment of Annie Sprinkle nostalgia:
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Sunday, February 24th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
So Molly Ren tweeted about “the world’s cutest orgy” on her blog:
As is becoming usual for me, I got carried away and had to track down the source. I wound up at a blog by “Bear King” (which matches the signature on Molly’s find) and there’s quite a bit more in the same vein:
That’s not the first bear sandwich I’ve seen, but the last one I saw was made from whole wheat bread and stewed bits of an actual fangs-and-fur style bear (no joke). Hastily changing the subject away from my unusual childhood: Am I the only one who thinks the Bear King may have been inspired by the illustrator for the “Curious George” line of children’s books?
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Sunday, February 17th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Bondage sex is doubtless a lot easier, not to mention more fun, if you know a pair of cute blondes — are they sisters? — who will help you manage all the leather straps and stuff while you focus on the utter misuse of your captive’s breasts, to her evident delight:
This art is by Tom Sargent, probably from a book called Fireside Orgies.
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Saturday, January 26th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
“Those two? They get invited to all the best orgies in this town.”
Via Kinky Delight.
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Saturday, March 17th, 2012 -- by Bacchus
I’m always a sucker for that genre of writing that can be characterized as “What I Saw At The Porn Shoot”. For me, it’s one of the best ways to be an informed porn consumer. So I was pleased to see another example from the genre pop up in Violet Blue’s latest sex news roundup:
The Sexual Manifesto: And Now I’m An Extra In A Porn Shoot
The more of these pieces you read, though, the more you start spotting tired tropes that are best avoided. One of them is what I call the “perverts: surprisingly normal” expression of surprise. (Hello? The rest of us went out on the internet right after it was discovered. We looked at the perverts, and discovered that they is us.) Another one is the “watching people fuck is more boring than you would think” observation. (You must not look at porn much?)
Sadly, Christine Borden in the SF Appeal commits both of these in two short paragraphs:
What brings these people here? The open space to play with each other? The chance to fuck a porn star? The thrill of the voyeur? Whatever their kinks, they are surprisingly not creepy. Instead, they are sociable, friendly, and open-minded.
After sneaking peeks at Act III (in which the three girls are tied to a table as the men shuffle around for spare holes), I grow tired. When you’re spectating a several person orgy, there’s only so many combinations of holes and dicks until you eventually get bored with watching attractive strangers fuck.
But don’t worry, she saved space in the rest of the piece for unfriendly sarcasm, more poseur ennui, and even an “I was so busy correcting someone for politically incorrect speech that I forgot to watch what else was going on in the room” moment. In fine, she was at great pains to make sure nobody thought for a moment that she was sympathetic to the room, the other people in it, or the enterprise of the evening.
Which is rather a pity, because the porn shoot she was at was (from the sound of it) one of the indoor-kinky-orgy shoots for Public Disgrace (a genre that must be popular, since it later inspired Kink.com to start up Bound Gangbangs to focus on more scenes of that sort). Public Disgrace was a bit controversial when it got started, because its branding and market positioning overstated the “public” bit. In fact, the site appears to do very little shooting in uncontrolled public spaces, but its market positioning deliberately under-emphasizes the degree of control they exercise over the public-looking places they feature and over the extras they feature in the role of the observing public. People saw the advertising, thought Kink.com was shoving bondage pussy into the faces of unsuspecting passersby, and got outraged.
So it’s got to be a good thing to show people how the sausage is actually made, right? Yeah. Yeah it is. For instance, this particular “public disgrace” photoshoot turns out to have taken place on Kink.com’s highly-controlled kinky party set in their Armory facility, the one normally used for shooting content for The Upper Floor:
It’s not every day that you get to be an extra in a porn shoot. At the Armory, that’s called Thursday night.
It’s 6:30 p.m., and I’m on the Upper Floor after signing a release, getting my ID scanned, and taking a photo with my ID posed next to my cheek. I’m here for Public Disgrace, a Kink.com site focused on kinky public sex…
Kinky it may be, but the access-and-ID-controlled set is hardly public in truth — it’s just a studio for the production of a sort of art that can look a little bit public to the undiscerning eye. It’s good to get that out there. (And no slam here on Public Disgrace fans for having undiscerning eyes — willing suspension of disbelief is central to the experience of enjoying fiction. We buy fictions that give us enough help to enable us to suspend our disbelief; we don’t demand fictions so solid that we can’t spot the set dressing.)
I’ll wrap this up with the little vignette from the piece about James Deen, who has been much in the public eye of late (including here at ErosBlog). It’s artfully crafted, I guess, in a way that could stand in for the entire article, being a nominally positive paragraph that still manages to express the author’s discomfort with her material:
James Deen walks toward the green room to fetch his robe. A fan stops him short, praising his performance tonight. The fan sticks out his hand. Without missing a beat, James offers up his elbow. We actually all know where that hand has been.
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Monday, January 9th, 2012 -- by Bacchus
Be sure to click through, this is detail from a grand-scale 16-person orgy scene! Artist is the Hungarian Alexander Szekely.
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Sunday, August 21st, 2011 -- by Bacchus
You’ve got to love the innocent setups you used to get in vintage porn. These are the establishing shots for an orgy in a 1975 Color Climax publication called Anal Sex #15:
“Hi, guys! Are we ever happy to see you! We were getting bored just laying here naked … won’t you join us?”
They would:
Sunday, July 24th, 2011 -- by Bacchus
I think it’s at least possible that this sex comic was drawn by somebody who isn’t a big fan of kings and royal prerogatives:
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 -- by Bacchus
I guess the little orgy is about to get started; the gentlemen are blowing up the French letters while the ladies watch with approval.
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