Category Archives: Retrosexual

What Was The Future Once: “We Live In Public”

Counting down to the moment when webcam girls are the future again, but only if they’re unevenly distributed on MySpace and YouTube, let’s remember those depressingly prescient days in 2000 and 2001, when it looked like anyone could be naked and fuck in online public and it might not always be through the pay-per-lens of [...]

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The Birth of the Proto-Bubble Hottie

Name that year, kiddos:
The area has sprouted computer-themed art galleries, a billiard hall and a Gold’s Gym, where former geeks can acquire new muscles to match their beefed-up social status. There is even “Gulch Gossip,” a column in a local computer magazine. Its author, who writes under the name Jonathan E., says, “My attitude is, [...]

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Group Sex, for Science

Via Jezebel, the New York Times bookblog has unearthed a precious volume, Group Sex: A Scientist’s Eyewitness Report on the American Way of Swinging, bearing insight into the bygone days group sex in the last century.
Offers its author, Dr. Gilbert D. Bartell, Ph.D.:
Although my wife is not an anthropologist, obviously my investigations would have been [...]

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“Philosophy in the Boudoir” Redux

Artist Tomer Hanuka has been commissioned to create the cover art for a new Penguin Classics edition of the Marquis de Sade’s Philosophy in the Boudoir, Or, The Immoral Mentors.
On his process:
Since the cover included a back cover and two flaps there was lots of space to build a rounded atmosphere. the back cover is [...]

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Retrosexual: Mystery Date, Now! With Bears!

The classic Mystery Date girls’ game gets remade as a bear matchmaking service in this retrosexed video:

Bears so rarely are celebrated in such a charming way, let alone available on the internet teevee. Plus, isn’t there just something so safe & sweet about mashing up outsider sexuality with nostalgia?

(via a shockingly, increasingly hotter Yahoo)

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Sissy Boy Slap Party Says, Happy Gay Pride, All

Is it too much to hope that someday Pride will shed its rainbow chain aesthetic and return to its more licentious roots? No better way to celebrate being Old School Gay (this is my thirteenth Pride) than this beauty, Sissy Boy Slap Party, from Guy Maddin. Enjoy, queerlets.

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Marital Aid Through The Ages

To think there was once a time when just scanning past an advertisement for the euphemistically-named “videos for married couples” would evoke a tingle of curiosity. What, then, does it say for Designing for Sex at the turn of the last century to get a rise out of readers with the following:

(from Lucifer the [...]

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And the Sexerati Secretarial Pool Allows A Camera In This Morning

(The Virtual Typewriter Museum, where smut is categorized by Underwood and Royal, via Strange Ink)

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Lazysexweb: What Is The History of NSFW?

Apropos of Susie Bright’s questioning of the overuse of NSFW…
NSFW is unmandated, unlegislated censorship — there’s no ballot to punch, no senator to harangue.
The great majority of NSFW warnings are the result of unconscious class bias, with the conceit of American ethnocentrism. It’s made a mockery of out of journalism and the First Amendment.
NSFW and [...]

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Do It For Sex Culture: “The Pleasure Machines”

Assignment: flesh out (literally) the internet history of the film, “The Pleasure Machines.” How could we let fade into the past a work that came subtitled “They could do any thing people could, only longer and better !!”

Suggested sources to bulk up: imdb (see also: the film’s distribution), wikipedia (crossreference material from Exploitation film). [...]

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