May 182024
- The Betwixt the Sheets podcast interviews Frenchie Lunning about her classic work on the history of fetish wear.
- The Authentically Kinky podcast interviews Lorelei Mission (aka Kristine Imboch) and Jon Woods of Harmony Concepts, one of the biggest and oldest kinky adult media production companies.
- The New Books on Sex, Sexuality and Sex Work podcast interviews Julie Peakman, who’s written extensively on 18th and 19th century European sexuality, about her new book.
- Savile Row Style magazine talks about the history of leather fashion.
- Mary Harrington is a self-described “reactionary feminist” who has some maverick ideas that critique the idea of modernity being a positive for women, along with anti-trans, gender essentialist arguments. She has some odd takes on the relationship between politics and BDSM, arguing that the popularity of BDSM in our supposedly egalitarian society suggests we really want hierarchical relationships, or even suggesting that because hormonal contraception and abortion on demand has made sex inconsequential, we want sex with a degree of risk. E.g. “like contraceptive sex is like vegan bacon and bdsm is just like the hot sauce that you add to make it taste more like the real thing” (transcript) She’s part of a liberal-apostate wing of the neo-Puritan movement in the USA and UK.
- Archive.org has a scan of an article from Bond magazine #3, published 1984, describing The Best S&M Show Ever at the Belle de Jour Theater in NYC.
