The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history. Women in Love (Ken Russell, 1969). "British erotica" has long been considered an oxymoron, and this distinction is not entirely unfounded. While European auteurs like Jean-Luc Godard, Tinto Brass, Walerian Borowczyk, and Luis Buñuel were treating copulation as a springboard to philosophical ruminations, the British were paying to see Barbara W...
Collections / ImagesBattles of the Sexes: Duels between Women and Men in 1400s Fechtbücher Illustration from a 1467 manuscript of Hans Talhoffer's fight book. Around the year 1430, illustrated German-language manuscripts began to depict the art of Zweikampf: dueling, or, literally, a battle of two. Known as "fight books" (Fechtbücher), these manuals developed out of a tradition founded by the semi-mythic Johannes Liechtenauer, a fencing instructor whose biography remains almost completel...
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the crime of three peters by Douglas Messerli John Greyson (screenwriter and director) Un©ut/ 1997 Canadian director John Greyson may be one of the most original and talented of late 20th century LGBTQ filmmakers. His Zero Patience (1993) and Lillies (1997) are both near the top of my lists of favorite LGBTQ works, and I’ve still to see several of his films which are often difficult to obtain in the US, an odd fact since, as this film argues against, rights and permissions (ou...
"I run a good old-fashioned whore house, monsieur." Synopsis: Just prior to the end of World War I, photographer E.J. Bellocq (Keith Carradine) visits a New Orleans whorehouse run by an aging madame (Frances Faye), and takes artistic portraits of a mother (Susan Sarandon) whose virginal 12-year-old daughter Violet (Brooke Shields) will soon be auctioned off to the highest bidder. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Barbara Steele FilmsDeep SouthHistorical DramaKeith Carradin...
Sulfur as hellSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/sulfur.html Sulfur According to Christian legend, sulfur is associated with HELL and the Devil (Cooper, 1978), and is often referred to as brimstone. Up one level Back to document index ShadowSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/shadow.html ShadowWith light, the shadow is the Chinese yin and yang; shadows are often identified with a person...
In 1893 on an isolated property, a heavily pregnant woman named Molly Johnson (Leah Purcell) and her children struggle to survive the harsh Australian landscape; her husband is gone, droving sheep in the high country. Molly then finds herself confronted by a shackled Aboriginal fugitive named Yadaka (Rob Collins). As an unlikely bond begins to form between them, secrets unravel about her true identity. Meanwhile, realizing Molly’s husband is missing, new town lawman Nate Clintoff becomes susp...
Nabokov And Balthus - Salmagundi Magazine Nabokov and Balthus: The Erotic Imagination By Jeffrey Meyers I Despite their idiosyncratic characters, the close contempor...
RB is also Roast Beef and Roland Barthes! -zas Jun 2022 Robert Burns (person) See all of Robert Burns, there is 1 more in this node. (person) by Gone Jackal (2.9 mon) Rep: 51 ( +52 / -1 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Mon Jan 15 2001 at 17:32:42 A short, oversimplified biography: Robert Burns was born on the 25th of January, 1759 in Alloway, a village in Ayrshire, Scotland, to a poor but educated farmer. Since the village was too poor to afford a school master, he was educated by his fath...
The book known variously as the Song of Solomon, the Song of Songs, and Solomon’s Song is something of an oddity in the Bible, in that it is an unabashed description of romantic and erotic love between a man and a woman. Despite its common title, however, Solomon didn’t write it, and many scholars now believe that parts of the Song of Songs were actually written by a female author. Let’s take a closer look at the Song of Solomon, as it’s widely known, and explore some of the stranger an...
The sexual revolution of the sixties was not one single thing. For gay men, for example, it represented greater tolerance to homosexuality, through the 1967 Sexual Offences Act. This legalised sex between consenting male adults over the age of 21. For many women, the picture was positive but far from perfect. The pill — available to married women in Britain from 1961, and unmarried women from 1967 — detached sex from procreation. This made it possible for women to have sex without the fear of...
How about a little overview today? An overview of the fertility gods of Hellenismos. I'm going to start off with a lesser known deity: Priapos (Πριαπος), protector of sheep, goats, bees, the vine and of all garden produce. He was depicted with a huge male member, and can be petitioned for aid with any issues regarding the male genitalia. He was native to the Mysian city of Lampsakos on the Hellespont but the ancient Hellenes adopted the God as the son of either Hermes or Dionysos. His mother ...
Opinion I’m Tired of Queer Book Lists Without Context Danika Ellis | 3 days ago This content contains affiliate links. When you buy throu...
Ad filmCall Me by Your Name's Director Defends Straight Casting, No NudityLuca Guadagnino stood by his decision to cast Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer in the iconic gay parts. BY Daniel Reynolds Monday, September 14, 2020 - 13:45 The director of Call Me By Your Name has defended his decision to cast straight actors as the film's gay leads. Luca Guadagnino, in a Friday interview with The Independent promoting his new Salvatore Ferragamo biopic, Shoemaker of Dream...
"My body was made of paper, ink flowed through my veins, my organs didn’t exist. I was a fiction." Consent, Vanessa Springora * "As always, the truth is slipping further out of reach with every word he says." The Comeback, Ella Berman * "An older man using a girl to feel better about himself—how easily the story becomes a cliché" the narrator of My Dark Vanessa states near the end of Kate Elizabeth Russell’s novel, encapsulating a central problem that seems to exist for tho...
From a 15th century Herbalarium manuscript illustrating the aphropdisiac effect of Mandrake. Photo by DeAgostini/GettyA long history of aphrodisiacs, from health tonic to sexual aidAlison M Downham MooreAlison M Downham Mooreis associate professor in modern European history and humanities at Western Sydney University. Her books include Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture (2018), co-edited with Manon Mathias; Sexual Myths of Modernity: Sadism,...
Soiled, Torn, Dead Chapter 7, Part II, of Lolita is an extraordinarily powerful piece of writing, even by the standards of that work. This is the chapter that begins: "I am now faced with the distasteful task of recording a definite drop in Lolita’s morals". In this chapter Humbert Humbert describes how the twelve-year-old Dolores Haze was turned into a prostitute by his demands on her. Her allowance was granted only on condition that she consents to his sexual requests.He reports: "Only very...
Introduction of The MetamorphosisMetamorphosis was originally published in the German language as Die Verwandlung and later translated into English. It is a popular novelette written by Franz Kafka. It was first published in 1915 and immediately created an uproar in the literary circles. Later, it was translated into several other languages, after which it became a foundation for writing about/on the grotesque and psychological issues. The story, though, revolves around a poor salesman and hi...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Edward's Syndrome (thing) by BioTech Fri Nov 02 2001 at 16:00:15 Edward's Syndrome (also known as trisomy 18 or trisomy E) is a congenital disorder caused by a baby having an extra copy of chromosome 18 (in other words, the baby has three copies instead of the normal two). Characteristics of the disorder include widespread defects in internal organs throughout the body and malformed physical features of the face and skeletal s...
Mike Mosallam is the writer and director of Breaking Fast, a romantic comedy that follows Mo, a practicing Muslim reeling from heartbreak. When an All-American guy named Kal offers to join him in his nightly Iftars — the traditional meal eaten by Muslims during Ramadan — the two discover they have more communities than they realized. In this piece he talks about the impetus for the movie — and the bizarre challenge posed by one location. Breaking Fast is now available on VOD. Find your v...
Did Judy Garland Mainstream the Under-the-Table Blow Job? Somewhere over the rainbow and under the appetizer lies the hard truth about this hotly contested beej In the spring of 1966, Judy Garland allegedly gave her publicist-turned-lover Tom Green a blow job while dining out. Or as author Gerald Clarke put it in the 2000 biography Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland, Garland and Green "seemed to make love everywhere, Judy even disappearing under the tablecloth at a Santa ...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Peter Orlovsky (person) by transform Mon Jul 10 2000 at 7:19:07 Allen Ginsberg's non-monogamous partner for more than 40 years. From all accounts, it seems that the two were very much in love, but they also had an agreement for a seuxally open relationship. Peter was even known to take a woman or two into his bed, completely messing up most assumptions and interpritations of his relationship with Ginsberg. However, the eventual ...
Jump to Navigation FacebookFacebook(link is external)Twitter(link is external)RSS Main menu Unwrapping sexualitySomewhere between demonization of sex and the ‘sexual revolution,’ there is a middle way . . . a higher way. October 26, 2011 | Feature | Volume 15 Issue 21 By Keith Graber Miller | After more than two decades of being married, birthing and adopting children, and annually teaching two college sexuality courses, I have come to the not-terribly-startling conclusion that I’m rather fo...
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When We Exposed Keith Raniere, The Leader Of The Nxivm ‘Sex Cult’Illustration by Dan Adel for ForbesBeginning in 1998, Keith Raniere attracted thousands of acolytes to his self-help group’s headquarters near Albany, New York, with the promise of life-transforming classes. Raniere didn’t just promise to unlock clients’ greater potential; he claimed that his methods could abate symptoms of Tourette’s syndrome and even help kids speak up to 13 languages. But in an October 2003 cover story, Forbe...