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Elust digest 178

Oct 152024

Elust is the only place where the smartest and hottest sex bloggers are featured under one roof every month.

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Thoughts & Advice on Sex & Relationships

Musings of a Switch, Porn thoughts

Tantric Sexual Healing, Sacred Sex: A Path to Deep Connection and Spiritual Awakening

The Disorderly House, How to Fuck Yourself, An Ultimate Sexual Self Intimacy Guide

Betty’s Toy Box, Experience Your Ultimate Pleasure: 10 Types of Orgasm for You to Try

Poetry

Simone Francis, Watch Me

“Sado Machismo” by Edmund White (1979)

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Oct 042024

“Sado Machismo” is an essay written by Edmund White and published in New Times, 8 January 1979, reprinted in the collection The Burning Library (Knopf, 1994)

White wrote this at a very different time: Not even ten years after Stonewall, before Cruising and definitely before HIV. The collection notes this essay was “… published during the height of Anita Bryant’s anti-homosexual campaign in Florida and in the midst of the Briggs Amendment campaign in California.” Gays and lesbians fighting for their rights to work as teachers were in the news, but a certain kind of “queer chic” was in the air too.

Choke (2008): The Celluloid Dungeon

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Oct 012024

Choke is a 2008 dark comedy based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, written and directed by Clark Gregg. Amazon

When I’ve asked leather guys whether they’d rather make it with a real Con Ed [repair] man or a lawyer who looks like one, the question baffles them. It lies outside the system of their fantasies. In their hearts they may know that the lawyer would be more adventurous and uninhibited lover, but their passion demands he at least appear to be a worker.
White, Edmund. 1979 “Sado Machismo”, from The Burning Library: Essays , Knopf, New York, 1994

Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) is a recovering, self-described “sex addict”, who fakes choking in restaurants so that he can emotionally manipulate his rescuers, which is to pay for supporting his Alzheimer’s-afflicted mother Ida (Anjelica Huston). He also works as a Colonial American historical re-enactor, performing a sanitized version of historical times.

(Spoilers ahead)

Latex & Lingerie: Shopping for Pleasure at Ann Summers Parties, by Merl Storr (2003)

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Sep 272024

Storr, Merl. 2003. Latex and Lingerie : Shopping for Pleasure at Ann Summers. Oxford: Berg. Amazon

Ann Summers is a UK brand of lingerie and sex toys, sold by brick-and-mortar stores, by online retailing and by a system of “Ann Summers parties”, in which saleswomen organize parties and directly market goods to the (all female) attendees. These goods include lingerie, sex toys, and related items. In particular, they sell bondage cuffs, light impact implements and other BDSM equipment. The Ann Summers parties are a point where “the rubber meets the road”, where people (i.e. hetero, vanilla women) have their first direct contact with BDSM toys, and the concept of BDSM play in general. Merl Storr’s book, based on interviews with party hosts and participant observation, presents valuable insights into how vanilla/hetero identities can change to accommodate the purchase of BDSM gear, if not the actual use of such.

Strangeland (1998): The Celluloid Dungeon

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Sep 172024

Strangeland is a 1998 thriller/horror film written by and starring Dee Snider (of 80s glam metal band Twisted Sister) and directed by John Pieplow. Amazon

The Presbyterian Lash, 1661

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Sep 152024

The Presbyterian Lash is a short satirical play from 1661 by Francis Kirkman, a rogue-ish author, publisher and bibliographer, with an eye for capitalizing on scandal.

Link Digest, September 2024

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Sep 152024

Dan Young is doing a Zoom talk BDSM: The History of a Secret Culture on September 29th, 2pm CDT. It will reference a lot of my own work as well as that of Stephen K Stein. Register at Forbidden Tickets.
Etsy has joined the list of platforms that built their followings hosting BDSM/fetish/kink/queer content (e.g. Tumblr) and then banned it so they could attract investors.
Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play. is a 2024 documentary about the production and reception of Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play. Currently streaming on HBO and Crave.
The Ukrainian city of Lviv not only has a statue dedicated to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, author of Venus in Furs, it has a themed cafe and hotel in his name too. Cafe menu, hotel, tourist listing, merch
More finds on Archive.org (you may need to register to read some of these):
- Vincent Andrews published Synopsis of Homosexual publications surrounding Old Guard, which includes scans of articles from Drummer magazine in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Michael Grumley’s book Hard Corps: Studies in Leather and Sado Masochism with photos by Ed Gallucci (Penguin, 1977), which provides a look at the pre-HIV leather scene.
- Gilles Deleuze’s 1989 book Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty, which takes a high-level, philosophical look at masochism and Sacher-Masoch’s work.
- Concertina: The Lives and Loves of a Dominatrix by Susan Winemaker, 2007.

eLust sex blog digest 177

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Sep 152024

Elust is the only place where the smartest and hottest sex bloggers are featured under one roof every month.

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Sex Work

Gen West, When 3 Isn’t a Crowd

Oz Bigdownunder, Sipping the Princess of Pop’s Prosecco, A Duo with Isabella Love

Lexi Rose, She Wants to Slurp – Food to Make Your Cum Taste Better

Maîtresse Nuit, The Art of Balancing Desires

Sandra, LAM London Alternative Market New Venue

Kristina J, Living in the Shadows: The Unseen World of a Sex Worker

Princess Kaz, The Alchemy of Role Play and BDSM

Sex Worker Search, Privacy Policies of Sex Worker Directories

Hellga, BDSM Dungeon Hourly Rentals in London

Erotic Fiction

Jerusalem Mortimer, In the Realm of the Sensei – Prologue 2

Product Reviews

Morgan Destera, TOY TEST – Funzze Jeweled Vibrating Butt Plug

Liz X, Clear Pleasure – Funzze Glass Dildos Seductive Rotary Surprise

Of Sex and Love, Why Do I Keep Breaking Vibrators? (a review of the Febos Wand)

Thoughts & Advice on Sex & Relationships

Sapora Knight, Boundaries: Elevate Your Intimate Connections to New Heights

barefoot sub, Today Is Not A Typical Day

Tantric Sexual Healing, Sexuality as a Path to Meditation: A Tantric Perspective

O Miss Pearl, Scenes From a Femdom Marriage

Witch of the Wands, Date Ideas to Reignite the Spark in Your Relationship

Books and Movies

Schey Place Books, Erotic-Romance Book of the Year

Future of Sex, Long Live the New Flesh: The Cronenbergs’ Take on Tomorrow’s Sexuality Might Grow On—or In—You

The History of BDSM, Tokyo Decadence (1992): The Celluloid Dungeon

Thoughts & Advice on Kink & Fetish

Femina Viva, The AI dominatrix training academy and why we will all be slaves

The Libertine (1968): The Celluloid Dungeon

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Sep 142024

The Libertine, also know as La Matriarca, is a 1968 film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile and starring Catherine Spaak. IMDB

A wealthy man, Franco, suddenly dies and leaves everything to his young, beautiful wife, Margherita (aka Mimi). She finds that he had been seeing a string of mistresses, and sets out on a journey of sexual exploration.