Nov 152024
- The re-election of Donald Trump as president of the United States may have far-reaching impacts on the production and distribution of distribution of pornography in the USA, particular kinky material. The US Supreme Court, now right-leaning, might overturn the 1972 Miller decision that protected material as art.
- The Sex and Psychology podcasts interviews Esmee Louise James, author of the new book Kinky History, about the myth of the Victorian vibrator, and how the true history of the vibrator is actually stranger.
- Richard Perez Seves has previously published biographies of kinky artists Charles Guyette, Eric Stanton, and Gene Bilbrew, and his magnum opus is his new biography of John “Willie” Coutts, artist, photographer, and publisher of Bizarre magazine.
- The Nation interviews Anna Poletti, the author of the new novel Hello, World?, about a pair of people who, displaced from their former lives, enter a dominant-submissive relationship. In particular, it talks about how their genders and political backgrounds influenced their kink (e.g. the sub is a man from a privileged background in Orban’s Hungary). It also comes a little too close to the idea of bdsm-as-therapy.
- Archive.org is back online, thankfully, and here are a few new finds:
