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CSI series finale “Immortality”: The Celluloid Dungeon

Dec 032025

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation series finale “Immortality”

A suicide bombing in a casino brings the gang back together for one last case. Never mind that Willows is now an FBI agent and has a conflict of interest because she owns the casino, and Grissom left law enforcement to become a maritime vigilante.

One of the pieces of debris from the bomb vest is a square of metal marked “LHK”, which Grissom recognizes as the monogram of “Lady Heather Kessler”. (She used her real last name as a pro-domme?)

CSI S05E05 “Swap Meet”: The Celluloid Dungeon

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Nov 282025

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation S05E05 “Swap Meet”, aired October 28, 2004. IMDB

In “Swap Meet”, the CSI franchise checks another sexual subculture off its list: swingers. While not directly related to BDSM, this episode does illustrate how investigative procedurals like CSI handle alternative sexualities.

The episode opens with aerial scenes of Las Vegas intercut with soft-core style shots of a couple making out. Cut to a hetero couple going to a swingers party in a posh gated community, with the soundtrack of “Vertigo” by U2. This being TV, everybody is younger and prettier than they would be in real life. This being CSI, it’s only a matter of time until a dead body turns up. This time, it’s a woman in a fountain, stabbed in the back and drowned.

Elust sex blogs digest 191

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Nov 172025

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History of BDSM, Nine and a Half Weeks (1978)

Link Digest, November 2025

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Nov 162025

Art Vintagique exhibits the Fredi trilogy, a set of 1929 novels about same sex desire, bisexuality, BDSM and fetishism, with Art Deco illustrations by Gaston Smit.
The Spring 1982 edition of Coevolution Quarterly published an article by Patrick (then “Pat”) Califia about “Feminism and Sadomasochism” (Pg.33-40), republished from Heresies.
The Authentically Kinky podcast interview bondage model Jewell Marceau about her many careers and her chronic mouth pain from overuse of ball gags.
The Humanist lays out the new wave of neo-Puritan activity in the USA.
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Dying for Sex S01E06: The Celluloid Dungeon

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Nov 162025

Dying for Sex S01E06 “Happy Holidays”

After Molly, Niki and Sonya celebrate the one-year anniversary of Molly’s cancer return, she has another dom-sub session with Neighbor Guy. Along the way, Molly gets turned on with him, but her anxiety returns, represented by a vision of a man with a blurry face. She partially opens up to Neighbor Guy about her childhood sexual abuse, and that she’s never had an orgasm with another person. She tells him she wants to try to orgasm with him, and he’s eager to help.

Dying for Sex S01E05: The Celluloid Dungeon

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Nov 062025

In S01E05, “My Pet”, Molly continues seeing (and dominating) Neighbor Guy, and starts seeing Pet, a man into puppyplay, complete with costume and collar. However, she hasn’t told either of them about her cancer. She orders Neighbor Guy to finish himself off and goes into the bathroom to finish herself off with a vibrator.

Nine and a Half Weeks (1978)

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Nov 032025

Nothing had prepared me. Some years back I had read The Story of O [sic], intrigued by the beginning, horrified after a few pages, repulsed long before the end. Sadomasochists in real life were black-leather freaks, amusing and silly in their ridiculous getups. If a friend, a peer, had told me she had herself tied to a table leg at home after a full day’s work at the office– well, it has never come up. God knows I would not have believed it. [Pg.54]

Nine and a Half Weeks by Ingeborg Day under the pseudonym Elizabeth McNeill, published 1978, is the semi-autobiographical account of her brief, obsessive, masochistic affair with an unnamed man. It was eventually adapted into the notorious Nine and a Half Weeks film in 1986, starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke.

I had viewed and read about the film quite a bit before I read the short novel. It differs in several significant points. (For convenience, I will refer to the POV character as Elizabeth and her lover as John, though he is not named in the book.)

Dying for Sex S01E04: The Celluloid Dungeon

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Oct 212025

Dying for Sex is a 2025 dramedy series about a woman, Molly, who is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and leaves her husband in search of sexual fulfillment.

In “Topping is a Sacred Skill”, the fourth episode of the first (and apparently only) season, Molly continues her exploration of her sexuality. In between episodes, she attended a BDSM play party and is intrigued by a dominant there known as G.

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