france
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Foucault: "Will they or won't they?" vs. "How will they?"
@ 2011-04-26 – 21:01:19
Foucault, Michel. Politics, philosophy, culture: interviews and other writings 1977-1984 Routledge, 1988 If there's an intellectual patron saint of … more -
Les Femmes Tondues: The Shaved Women
@ 2011-04-07 – 04:53:41
Gloria Brame has posted a startling image of a group of les femmes tondues, or shaved women. In post-WWII France, certain women, sometimes but not always … more -
Buy it, read it, then burn it
@ 2011-02-13 – 06:42:47
Samuel Pepys, who was always pretty frank about his moral lapses, recounts buying the French classic "whore dialogue" L'Ecole des Filles, reading it … more -
Scent of a sadist
@ 2010-06-04 – 17:47:41
Ah&Oh Studio created a line of perfume packages based on male writers, including George Orwell, LaClos (author of Dangerous Liaisons), Edgar Allen … more -
Tibetan nights
@ 2010-05-17 – 18:24:35
Debra Hyde also has a Flickr set called "La Nuit Thibetaine", a mid-20th century, presumably French set of photographs from a magazine that bear a … more -
The new edition of O
@ 2010-03-06 – 18:44:12
According to Slate, NBM's Eurotica line just re-released Guido Crepax's graphic novel adaptation of Pauline Reage's The Story of O. The article gives … more -
Sexual fantasies vs. Apocalyptic fantasies
@ 2009-11-06 – 07:29:40
Fetish Pop Culture turned up an interesting French book called La Papesse du Diable (The Devil's female Pope) by Jehan Silvius and Pierre de Ruynes, … more -
The fetish art of George Mouton
@ 2009-11-05 – 05:12:58
Gloria Brame has some late Victorian-Edwardian fetish postcards by the obscure French Georges Mouton. more -
Parisiennes Flagellées
@ 2009-09-13 – 17:35:00
From Fetish Pop Culture, Parisiennes Flagellées, by Jean de Virgans, Paris, 1922. English translation of French Biblio Curiosa entry on Jean de Virgans. … more -
Spanking artwork of Louis Malteste, and the many pseudonyms of Mac Orlan
@ 2009-07-09 – 02:16:51
Fetish Pop Culture has a selection of spanking illustrations by Louis Malteste. From what I can tell, the above novel was published in 1911 or 1912, … more