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A new book features Jo Ann Callis's earliest — and previously unseen — photography. Via Gracie Passette 
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“You know,” observed a recent dinner guest, glancing around our living room between sips of his digestif, “there are a lot of strong women in this apartment.” I follow his gaze toward the massive tangerine-on-yellow She-Ra painting that anchors one end of the room—a tough lady if there ever was... Via Gracie Passette
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Phallus vases are a rare and distinctive feature of Archaic Greek pottery. They were used to store perfumed oils, presumably of an erotic or medicinal nature. This vase is the product of an East Greek workshop, probably on Rhodes Via Gracie Passette
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"Yeah, I'll have a couple Dempseys and one of those Ted Williams' ones...for a friend". These sports-branded condoms are up for auction, Via Gracie Passette
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Prostitution and war often go hand-in-hand. But this is perhaps most true of the First World War, where even the French government played a part in the sex industry – a legacy that continued almost to up to today. Via Gracie Passette
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Residents of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv are of two minds on the reputation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Via Gracie Passette
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The world has just commemorated the 100th annivesary of the beginning of the First World War. While most historians have come to categorize the war as, in the words of Richard Evans, ‘the seminal catastrophe of the entire period’, ideologically driven government officials and some military historians insist that the war was a triumph of good over evil, and a resounding victory for Britain and its allies. Many controversies have therefore arisen about who, what, and how to commemorate, and about the very nature of the war itself. In this post, I’ve chosen to commemorate some drunk Canadians in London in 1916, the police who impersonated them, and the women who sold sex in the bars that they frequented. With a title like this, of course I want to entertain. But I also want to argue that the sexual history of war lies at the very heart of the history of war itself. Via Gracie Passette
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Here’s a curious tale that’s apparently been reconstructed from local folklore, without much in the way of specifics or documentation. As such, we might reasonably wonder wh Via Gracie Passette
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Very Old And Funny Bronze Sculpture Representing The Roman Military Industrial Complex SPQR With Two Nude Male Soldiers Showing Off ! Ur tax Via Gracie Passette
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Sixties art house erotica was provocative, but was it a turn on? Listen to Episode 104 of Slate’s The Gist: Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab Today on The Gist, we talk about Andy Warhol’s erotic films with McGill University professor Ara Osterweil, who explains how movies like Couch and Blow Job transformed American visual culture. Osterweil is the author... Via Gracie Passette
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The homely, jowly face, dictatorial blatherings, and ragged leather chaps masked one of the great makers of modern cinema Via Gracie Passette
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How have perceptions of magic shaped sexuality, love, and reproduction in the past? “Bewitched,” “enchanted,” “spellbound,” “possessed” — the language of seduction and love is replete with allusions to magic. In the early modern period, magic and sexuality were deeply intertwined and there was a widespread consensus that humans were vulnerable to mysterious powers, especially… Via Gracie Passette
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In a StoryCorps animation, Patrick Haggerty remembers the remarkable advice he got from his dairy farmer dad. Via Rob Duke, Gracie Passette
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I recently submitted an essay about the history of Courtesans in South Asia. It’s quite lengthy, but I thought it would be of interest to those interested in how notions of gender and sexuality changed dramatically with regards to modernity. Here is a brief summary of some key issues: Via Gracie Passette
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Released in 1981, Softporn was controversial, cheesy, and earnest to a fault. It also presaged today's ongoing debates about who computers and games are for. Via Deanna Dahlsad, Gracie Passette
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So many thanks to the most excellent Emi Gennis, who is a master of historical comics! You can follow her work on Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook-- and I suggest that you do. She has some further rea... Via Gracie Passette
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Who was Thelma Furness? Royal mistresses are nothing new and the Prince of Wales was merely following in the royal tradition when he was sowing his wild oats, wasn't he? Read on and learn more. Via Deanna Dahlsad, Gracie Passette
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A British man flew home from Marrakech last week after being jailed for "homosexual acts". There was a time though when Morocco was renowned as a haven for gay Americans and Britons, who fled restrictions in their own countries to take advantage of its relaxed atmosphere. Via Gracie Passette
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This is an amazing hand painted marquee painting. This came from the estate of Hollywood producer and director Joel Schumacher. I dont know Via Gracie Passette
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A range of Tom of Finland stamps has launched in Finland to commemorate the “proud homoeroticism” of the influential gay artist, and has been the best selling in the country's history. Via Gracie Passette
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When I was in high school I kept my porn in a white box. Inside the box was a stack of magazines—almost entirely Playboys, because I liked the clean stuff—as well as a purple folder full of the images I liked best, so that I could spread them out on my bedroom floor and sit in the middle of them, Via Gracie Passette
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