Richard Burton postulated the "Sotadic zone", in which male-male sexuality was normal and accepted south of certain latitudes. This equation of sexuality … more
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orientalism
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Sex pits of Tehran: "Passionate Uprisings", by Pardis Mahdavi
@ 2010-11-23 – 02:31:14
Mahdavi, Pardis. Passionate Uprisings: Iran's Sexual Revolution Standford University Press, 2009 Google books This fascinating book is based on … more -
Classic sheikh
@ 2010-11-20 – 22:39:55
Sociological Images has a post on Race and Gender themes of "Sheikh Romances", a popular subgenre of mass market romance. Sheikh romances are generally … more -
Pleasure Dome: "I wonder if I'll ever be punished for my blasphemy"
@ 2010-11-20 – 09:22:20
Pleasure Dome, by Megumu Minami, is a collection of 5 yaoi manga stories. There is a lot of non-consent, bondage and "ravishment" in these stories, … more -
Victorian steampunk animatronic bed
@ 2010-06-13 – 18:44:26
[ ... ] interesting is that this artifact represents a kind of reverse Orientalism, an "Oriental" man's fantasy of different varieties of European women. 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 Erotic Margin" in one image
@ 2009-07-10 – 05:24:20
From Gloria Brame, who is practically doing my job for me. Date and origin unknown, sadly. Note the Orientalist artifacts: Persian rugs, anklets, … more -
Cleopatra (1934)
@ 2009-07-04 – 06:16:38
[ ... ] This goes into the Orientalism I've talked about in other posts. The film sets up a contrast between the martial/masculine world of Rome (the ... more -
The (sexual) grass is always greener....
@ 2009-06-16 – 22:24:51
[ ... ] a phenomenon of Orientalism or even colonialism. There's always the belief that some other place is a sexual utopia, compared to the prudish ... more -
BDSM in mainstream movies
@ 2008-06-30 – 19:36:56
Slate on the BDSM influence in the new action flick Wanted: For those whose fantasies include being crushed like bugs by Angelina Jolie (or beaten … more