Oct 152016
- Belier Press is publishing Possibilities, a massive collection of the photography of John Coutts, better known as John Willie, publisher of the classic Bizarre magazine. “Informative Text, including additional Biographical Information about the Photographer, Copious Notes, and Valuable Advice for Serious Collectors”
- For those men whose sexual coming-of-age occurred before the Internet era, there was a certain rite of passage involving going to adult bookstores. gives us a taste of what that vanished era was like, especially for the kinky. “I bought a Swedish nudes magazine to show my friends, but I also bought three BDSM magazines that day.”
- During my first time in New York City, my hosts and I talked about going to La Nouvelle Justine, a BDSM-themed restaurant, but didn’t go. I don’t know how long that lasted, but there was a SM-themed supper club in NYC a few years later, La Maison de Sade, which lasted from c.1999 to 2001. The site also has a review of a 1998 party, SMack.
- My approach to BDSM comes from the humanities, but the STEM fields do their own valuable work. The Science of BDSM has an extensive bibliography on books and journal articles.
- Macho Sluts, an anthology of lesbian BDSM stories by Patrick Califia (then known as Pat), was a groundbreaking work. Carolyn Bronstein’s essay “The Political Uses of Lesbian Romance Fiction: Reading Patrick Califia’s Macho Sluts as a Response to 1980s Anti-Pornography Feminism” provides historical context.
- Rebel Circus has a slide show and short history of Bettie Page.
