High-Five Fridays #17

High-Five Fridays seems to be on hiatus; but I'm still playing.

1) Dude, Hans of AMEA, World Museum of Erotic Art has started the cool ArtCrazed.com. Now before you moan, "Oh, not another social site," let me point out the obvious: It's about art, people! Finally, you get to sit at the cool kids' table and hang out with the artistic crowd. You can hook-up with me here. Do it. You'll be one of the cool kids.

2) From The Frisky: Virgin Sacrifice: Father/Daughter Dance. It may not be "old", but it is definitely old school.

3) In honor of Loni's marriage (and because you don't like posts without naughty images), enjoy Anderson and Jan Smithers with what could be, if you peer close enough, camel toe... But at least it's breasts in little WKRP tees. (Classic TV now on video too.)



4) Kudos to Yvonne K. Fulbright at FOX (surprise!) for stating the following disclaimer at the top of her article, 7 Ways to Tell If You Are Addicted to Porn: "Author’s note: This is not an article on whether or not erotica is morally wrong. It is not an article on whether porn use is an addiction (I'll get to those great debates at another time)." At least she makes some distinctions between a problem behavior and the entire genre.

5) Why are you walking that way? Is that an erotic cane, or are you just happy to see me?

Also, I don't do these things; but as a favor to Crazy Crafty Cat Chick, I'll do the following "hit list". I'll tag no one, because I know how such things can get you killed...

Dhanosh

Marketing Myself

Brawny Hunk

Motorparasi

Nicksplat

Annette

Super Hero Extraordinare

Everyday should be Christmas

The Gadget Guru tech

Available Light

Dad's Dish

What Goes Under the Sun

One Quart Low

Stephan Miller

Mental Poo

Search for Blogging

Renatodoxaguia

Angel Baby

The Sleeping Turtle Art Gallery

Hanna

JollyJo

Olga the traveling bra

Concept is addict

Postarelibero

Nokhathai

Momreviews

Into the Rabbit Hole

Smile! Tomorrow could be a lot worse!

Wicked Whispers

Anand's blog

Catatonic Kid: A Mind Boiling Over

Discorax's House of Woot

Blogging from the Bog

Shiv's Brain

Secret Spiritual Dance

Sisters of a Different Order.

OMYWORD! Did I say that?

Letters from Exile.

~From the Myst~

I-Ching Online.

The World According to Me

Rantings & Ramblings

Crazy Crafty Cat Chick.

The BearTwins Mom

Gracefully Abnormal

Silent Porn Star

Does Anyone Say "Head-Banging" Anymore?

Hot for SIXX:A.M.'s video, Pray for Me?

Catch the band on XXBN's Cult of Gracie tonight. (I'm public phone-o-phobic, so I sent my questions in via email lol)

More info on the band, and another video, here.

Clever Cleo

I'd love to know more about this pin... All the seller says is that it's a "Vintage Risque Clever Cleo Advertising Pinback Button." Not even any measurements. :sigh:

If anyone knows more, please do tell.



(Cleo may have been clever, but a seller sans information is not.)

Black Beauty

From African bodies of evidence: Dartmouth's gutsy 'Black Womanhood' probes old wounds:

In 1810, an English ship's surgeon brought Saartjie Baartman, a young South African woman, to London. She was displayed on stage and made to squat to show her genitals. After she died in 1816, her brain, skeleton, and genitals went on exhibition in Paris, where they remained until 1974.

Baartman, dubbed the "Hottentot Venus," was a victim of colonialism at its most vulgar. She plays a generative role in "Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body," a sweeping, gutsy, and provocative exhibition organized by curator Barbara Thompson at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College.

I'd never heard of Baartman. But now I'm fascinated -- in that ashamed awareness of those who rubberneck in ignorance which is combined with anger and sorrow for the woman herself.



It wasn't until 2002 that she returned home -- nearly two centuries later. (See also: The Life and Times of Sara Baartman "The Hottentot Venus", a film by Zola Maseko.)

The exhibition looks right up my alley -- to bad the museum isn't in my alley.

However, the catalog itself is apparently worth seeing. (You can purchase it from the museum.)

From a collector's standpoint, the following reminds me how many nude African female postcards I see:

Partial nudity was common in 19th-century Africa, but imagine the reaction of Victorian-era Europeans landing there, greeted by bare-skinned natives. They deemed Africans primitive and erotic, applied anthropometry - the measuring of body parts - to attempt to understand them, and sent postcards home, many with photos and captions intended to titillate and reinforce presumptions of white racial superiority.

High-Five Fridays #16

1) Discovering more about those social gatherings of ninteen-ought-eight -- and don't miss the cute song lyrics on this card from 1912: I’ve Got to Go and Get Myself a Girl Like You. (It's a hoot!)

2) One of the largest collections of vintage erotica.

3) Amanda at SWOP East shares a good link, saying:

The MET has a display of superhero fashion. This is notable since most superhero clothing takes a lot of cues from BDSM attire -- whether publicly acknowledged or not.

4) Why the Leather Archives and Museum is important.

5) A review of The Forgery of Venus, a fictional work.

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Leap Year Presents Quite A Leap

In Lessons In Vintage Postcards: The Leap Year Proposal we discover a gem by Dorothy Dix (1904):

That woman labors under a great matrimonial disadvantage in not being able to pop the question no one will deny. It forces her to take what is offered to her instead of the thing for which she would ask if she had the privilege, and even when leap year removes the bar against her speaking out in meeting it does her little good, for it finds her with no precedent to guide her, no experience to be a lamp to her feet.

Click the image to read it all (and the link for more info).

Retro Mad Doctor Laboratory Sex

The mad doctor is a popular horror theme for enforced sex. I find it to be one of the most comical of the erotic themes, however it does expose societal fear of medicine (in a sort of science fiction "what if" way) and power (in a classic Gothic style), resulting in a "natural" setting for submitting to an authority you are at the mercy of, both intellectually and financially.

From The "If Sex Is Natural..." Files

If sex is natural, why is porn & erotica so unnatural?



Photo via Secondhand Rose.

Pray For Me Video

The explicit version of SIXX:A.M.'s newest music video, Pray for Me: