The History of BDSM

Link Digest, February 2025

Feb 172025

Out reports on how Durk Dehner, co-founder of the Tom of Finland Foundation, has resigned from his position as president. This comes after International Mr. Leather removed Dehner as a judge because of the discovery of private photos of him in Nazi regalia. Of course, this sparked a lot of discussion on Facebook about fascist aesthetics and ideologies in gay male leather.
The New Books network podcast has an interview with Judith Giesberg, author of Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality. She talks how the American Civil War affected developments in sexuality, including the rapid growth in pornography and the subsequent backlash led by crusaders like Anthony Comstock, and how anti-slavery media had the perverse effect of eroticizing slavery.
The Women at Warp podcast discusses kink in the Star Trek universe
Archive.org finds:
- Four issues of 1990s UK gay leather magazine !SIR!
- Four issues of 1990s UK gay leather magazine Houseboy
- Video of Judy Tallwing McCarthy’s speech at International Ms. Leather 1987
- Video of David Blyth’s 2007 documentary Transfigured Nights about rubber fetishism, female masking and related kinks.

After Fall, Winter (2011): The Celluloid Dungeon

Feb 172025

After Fall, Winter is a 2011 drama film, written by, directed by, and starring Eric Schaeffer, along with Lizzie Brocheré.

Michael (Schaeffer) is an American writer who is borderline suicidal because he is $600,000 in debt and struggling to sell his next book. On impulse, he takes a friend’s invitation to travel to Paris for the winter holidays. He also sees a pro-domme for humiliation.

Shadow Hours (2000): The Celluloid Dungeon

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Feb 072025

Shadow Hours (2000) is an independent drama film written and directed by Isaac H. Eaton and starring Balthazar Getty, Peter Weller and Rebecca Gayheart. IMDB

Michael Holloway (Getty) is a recovering drug addict who works the night shift at a Los Angeles gas station. He’s trying to plan for the future with his pregnant wife, Chloe (Gayheart). The pressures and isolation of his job push Michael towards using again. One night, Michael meets Stuart Chappell (Weller), a wealthy, mysterious stranger who claims to be a writer. Stuart takes a liking to Michael, buys him a new suit, and pulls him along on nightly expeditions into the dark underside of the city.

eLust sex blog digest #181

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Jan 172025

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Erotic Fiction

Fern River Cub, Come-In (Part 2)

Jerusalem Mortimer, In the Realm of the Sensei – Prologue 5

Peach Kisser, Mid-Flight Hospitality

Simone Francis, Fetish Secretary

Ambyr Leigh, My Terrible Date Fucked Me Bareback In The Backseat Of His Car

Schey Place Books, The Story So Far

Link Digest, January 2025

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Jan 152025

The Official Bettie Page podcast interviews Jane Garrett, author of a new biography of fetish artist, photographer and publisher John “Willie” Coutts
Authentically Kinky interviews Fetlife founder John Baku.
Youtuber Trash Discourse discusses the new (to me, at least) kink of forced masculinization, or “forcemasc”.
From the Internet Archive
- Youtuber Evie Lupine has had many struggles with Youtube over her kink education content. That’s why she has archived her videos.
- Claudia Varrin’s 2002 A guide to New York’s fetish underground
- West German, multi-lingual BDSM magazine Madame X #18, published 1985
- A 1927 psychoanalysis journal, which includes “A Tentative Formulation of the Origin of Sadomasochism”
- Sexual Deviance, by Anthony Storr, published 1964, includes a chapter on sadomasochism
- The Boarding-School, an anonymous pamphlet of Ff corporal punishment erotica, published 1989 by Ryder Publishing, UK. (No illustrations)

Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975): The Celluloid Dungeon

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Jan 132025

Salò (1975) was written and directed by Pier Pasolini as an adaptation of the notorious pornographic novel, The 120 days of Sodom, written by the Marquis de Sade while in the Bastille. It was part of the Naziploitation film boom in the mid-1970s. It was also Pasolini’s last film, released three weeks after his murder.

This movie will bore you, horrify you, or both.

Pasolini transplanted the story to Italy in the last days of WWII. Four fascists marry each other’s daughters, and form a covenant. They select a group of beautiful young women and handsome young men, some armed enforcers, and some elderly brothel madams, and seal themselves up in a chateau.

CSI S05E15 “King Baby”: The Celluloid Dungeon

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Jan 102025

CSI‘s episode “King Baby” (S05E15) is another Jerry Stahl co-written episode, which focuses on another sexual kink, infantilism/ageplay/ABDL (adult baby/diaper lovers).

“People Who Like Kinky Sex Are Just Bad In Bed”: Evie Magazine and the Raw Milkmaid Dress

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Jan 012025

The sexual dynamics of the American conservative resurgence have been fascinating over the last few years.

Evie Magazine is a conservative women’s magazine first published in 2019. Its aesthetics and content reflect the “trad life/trad wife” movement, creating a pastoral fantasy of rural, agrarian labour combined with an idealized hetero-nuclear family. At the fringier end of things, Evie’s content splices into ideologies like pronatalism, anti-vaccination, the benefits of “raw milk” and other health quackery, transphobia, anti-feminism, COVID denial, QAnon, etc.

It’s epitomized by the “tradwife” image, a (white) long-haired woman in a white or print dress, hair kerchief, and cowboy boots who has had borne and raised several children while running a country farm and baking her own bread daily, and yet somehow still looks like a fashion model. She does no paid labour outside the home, instead leaving that to her commuting (white) husband.