One of the most acclaimed and famous erotic novels of all time - and one of only five erotic novels credited with true literary status by Susan Sontag, this is a tale of bondage, dominance and submission in the tradition of The Story of O. The narrator, Jean, is assisted by Claire in the domination of the subservient Anne in a series of sexually explicit scenarios. Like O, The Image is ultimately a potent and bizarre love story.

IMAGE

Last, First

Arts & Photography

Wet Angel Books

White Stains remains Aleister Crowley's most infamous work, his attempt at taking the Satanic/erotic decadencee of Baudelaire and ramping it up to new extremes of degradation, sexual depravity and demonic frenzy. Revelling in filth, Crowley includes odes to sodomy, fellatio, cunnilingus, analingus, rape, lesbianism, impotence, venereal disease, bestiality, sado-masochism, coprophilia, necrophila, blasphemy and devil-worship in this staggering, over-the-top compendium of eros and evil. This new edition of White Stains also includes Crowley's rare later volume, The Nameless Novel (1904), a rampant pornographic novella written to stimulate and amuse his wife. With a new introduction by Crowley scholar D M Mitchell, the book is illustrated with rare examples of Victorian erotic photography, making it a decorative document of fin-de-sicle erotica, as well as a unique compendium of Crowley's most outrageous and notorious literary output.

White Stains & The Nameless Novel: Flowers of Eros and Evil

Literature & Fiction

CROWLEY, ALEISTER

Genre Fiction

This landmark study of sexual mania, deviation and perversity is presented in a new, modern translation highlighting the cases chosen by KrafftEbing to appear in the 12th and final edition of the book, the culmination of his life’s work. An essential reference for those interested in the development of medical and psychiatric diagnosis of sexual derangement, Psychopathia Sexualis is also a fascinating document for those drawn to the darker side of human sexuality and behaviour. Cases range from Jack the Ripper to the most obscure and extreme instances of perversion known to 19th century psychiatrists and criminologists.

PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS

Swingers and swappers, strippers and streetwalkers, sadists, masochists, and sexual mavericks of every persuasion; all are documented in this legendary exposÃ© of the diseased underbelly of '60s American society.The legendary sexology book that lent its name to the seminal New York rock'n'roll group THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, led by Lou Reed, whose songs were to mirror its themes of depravity and social malaise.Subjects range from mail-order pornography and prostitution to bondage and SM parties, orgies, and clandestine sex clubs.In 1966 the book was picked up on by Lou Reed, a young New York musician who had just formed a band, The Falling Spikes. Reed immediately changed the band's name to The Velvet Underground, became Andy Warhol's house band, wrote a raft of songs based on sleaze and the demi-monde, and the rest is history...

The Velvet Underground

Politics & Social Sciences

Leigh, Michael

Social Sciences

A look back at the Golden Age of American porno movies from 1970 until 1980 with foccus on 10 legendary actresses/models from that era: * photographic profiles of each actress * over 300 rarely-seen images, 8 in full color As well as performing in adult feature films and peep-show loops, porn actresses would often supplement their income by posing for photo-shoots which appeared in the dozens of men's magazines of the period. Here are the most erotic images, 8 pages in full-color. Featuring: Linda Lovelace, Rene Bond, Uschi Digard, Linda McDowell, Candy Samples, Seka, Desiree Cousteau, Marilyn Chambers, Dyanne Thorne, Serena * photographic profiles model * 300+ rarely-seen images

Adult Movie Superstars: Golden Age Photos, Volume 1

Photography & Video

ADULT MOVIE SUPERSTARS looks back at the so-called "Golden Age” of European sex movies - roughly from 1972 until 1980 and the advent of video technology - and focuses on 4 legendary actresses/models from that era, presenting photographic profiles of each of them, with over 130 rarely-seen images.As well as performing in adult feature films and peep-show loops, porn actresses would often supplement their income by posing for photo-shoots which appeared in the dozens of men's magazines of the period; ADULT MOVIE SUPERSTARS presents some of the very best, and most erotic, images from this wealth of classic material, including 8 pages in full-color.Cover star: Christina LindbergFeaturing:LAURA GEMSER: legendary star of the Black Emanuelle series; CHRISTINA LINDBERG: legendary star of Thriller and Sex & Fury; BRIGITTE LAHAIE: legendary star of Jean Rollin's Fascination; BRIGITTE MAIER: legendary star of Lasse Braun's Sensations.

Adult Movie Superstars Volume Two: The Eurozone Photos

The first true flowering of Satanism in erotic art came with the Belgian artist Felicien Rops (1833-1898). Rops, who had met Charles Baudelaire in Paris in 1864 and subsequently become a devoted disciple, thereafter commingled elements of death, prostitution and the Satanic in his work, particularly in his 5-picture series Les Sataniques of 1882. Pictures in this series such as The Sacrifice and Calvary are clear and explicit representations of Black Mass and Satanism which still retain their original power to shock and disturb. These images, as well as the others in Les Sataniques, can be found in LUST FOR THE DEVIL, which collects around 80 of Rops' most outlandish and confrontational works, including a section of 30 colour plates. Also to be found here are images of death and corporeal dissolution, ranging from The Death Penalty to The Dancing Corpse; images of prostitution and addiction, such as The Absinthe Drinker and Human Trash; and numerous examples of Rops' book illustrations, reproduced in editions of decadence and diabolism that include Paul Verlaine, JosÃ©phin PÃ©ladan, and Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's Les Diaboliques. Present too are a number of images of religious perversion, as well as several foregrounding Rops' trademark iconography - the evil and controlling power of women - ranging from The Puppet Mistress to variations of Naturalia, whose semi-defleshed subject, the "Diabolic Female”, displays her fearful bone vulva smeared with blood. These 80 images between them display the full range of Felicien Rops' darkest subject matter, revolving around his Baudelairean fusion of sex, death and Satan; they also run the gamut of the artistic techniques Rops employed, from oil painting and etching to pencils, pastels, and watercolours; and finally they reveal both the driving obsessions and skills of an artist whose reputation now places him as a foremost innovator of the 19th century.

Lust For The Devil: The Erotic-Satanic Art Of Felicien Rops

Individual Artists

Copenhagen in the mid-1960s was at the very forefront of the fight against censorship, producing dozens of underground sex magazines which continually pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable in the visual erotic image. Featuring voluptuous nude pin-up girls plucked from the streets and thrust in front of hungry cameras in secret backstreet studios, these magazines were at the forefront, parading scores of these amateur but sexy young women in a multitude of alluring, often explicit poses and settings.Jean le Baptiste has assembled from his own collection a stunning array of vintage photographs from these magazines, a collection which at once takes us back to the fashions and styles of more innocent decades, yet delivers a strong erotic thrill at the rediscovery of these wanton Danish girls in their sexual prime. "Dirty Danish Dolls" contains 100 shamelessly provocative images, with 32 pages in full colour. For those who prefer women with no tattoos, no silicone, and hair where nature intended.

Dirty Danish Dolls: Scandinavian Glamour Girls

Nudist, or naturist, magazines comprising photographs of naked men, women and children enjoying outdoor activities first appeared as far back as the beginning of the 20th century. Nudist culture boomed in the 1950s and early 1960s, following a landmark ruling which permitted such material to be freely distributed via the US mail. Of course, these publications were not aimed solely at fellow naturists; although their content and context was strictly non-sexual, the ample swathes of female flesh they offered nonetheless provided the average man with the only masturbatory material which was freely available. Jean le Baptiste has assembled from his own collection a stunning array of vintage photographs from these magazines, a collection which takes us back to the unashamed, unclothed splendour of more innocent decades in the sun. "Naked At Noon" contains over 100 classic images, with 32 pages in full colour. For those who prefer women with no tattoos, no silicone, and hair where nature intended.

Naked At Noon: Vintage Nudist Photographs

SALOME is an evocation of biblical horror in which blasphemies inflame an atmosphere that seethes with a dangerous erotic charge from the very outset. Relentless, hypnotic repetitions in the words, arranged in fugue cadences, lend the proceedings a masturbatory, oneiric quality: the tale unfolds with the inexorable acceleration of an orgasmic nightmare. Aubrey Beardsley's UNDER THE HILL, a short work commenced in 1894 but left unfinished at the time of Beardsley's premature demise, nonetheless achieves the quintessence of Decadence, an evocation of a synaesthetic pleasure dome to rival Huysmans' A Rebours. This, allied to its extraordinary catalogue of sexual perversions, makes it a unique and indispensable text for any who seek the uttermost extremes of the manifest imagination. This joint edition of SALOME and UNDER THE HILL, united by twenty of Beardsley's unsurpassable drawings, is a timely rehabilitation of these two all-too-often ignored fin-de-siÃ¨cle texts, and constitutes a volume of unadulterated erotic decadence which stands at the pinnacle of the genre.

Salome: & Under the Hill (FORBIDDEN EROTIC CLASSICS)

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey

Wilde, Óscar

Erotica

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