May 192026
- Xtra Magazine covers the history of the pro-BDSM lesbian magazine On Our Backs.
- LGBTQNation profiles the forthcoming book on BDSM and spirituality by Dr. Melissa Wilcox, Devotions: Spirituality and Religion in LGBTQ Leather and BDSM Communities.
- Many key figures of the “bizarre underground” of the mid-20th century are still largely unknown. Richard Perez Seves has pulled together as much research as possible about Leonard Burtman, kink magazine publisher and film producer.
- Consensual Torture Simulator is a text-only video game published by Merritt Kopas in 2013, in which the player is urged by their lover to make them cry.
- Podcasts:
- The eroticization of breasts is so widespread that it’s hard to think of it as a “fetish”, but that wasn’t always the case. The Sex and Psychology Podcast covers the historical evolution of the kink so ubiquitous it seems normal.
- From Archive.org:
- Nick Broomfield’s documentary Fetishes (1996)
- Documentary Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997)
- Lesbian BDSM magazine Venus Infers Vol.2 No.1 (1994)
- Librivox free audiobook of Venus in Furs (In English; not sure which translation)
- Lynda Hart’s Between the Body and the Flesh: Performing Sadomasochism (1998)
