By Erin Fae
This photo (Catherine Opie, “Pervert—Self-Portrait,” NSFW link: http://emuseum2.guggenheim.org/media/full/2003.68_ph_web.jpg) scared me when I was 16. Part of the fear was my own fascination.
Aug 252011
Aug 142011
By T.M. Bernard
A caricature of the US president battling Russia’s Vladimir Putin is the main draw at Moscow’s first sex museum, the cleverly named Tochka G (”G Spot”) located in one of the cities famous touristy streets. Controversy surrounding the new museum isn’t limited…
Aug 092011
By Lucy Lemonade
Any proper Stepford kinkster understands that the brain is the largest erogenous zone. We may dress in prim cardigans or freshly ironed dress shirts, but our filthy words can melt glass. Dirty talk, like any foreign language, can be learned with a little time and concentration.
Jul 272011
By Erin Fae
There must have been something in the coffee in Austria at the start of the last century. Maybe the models were different in their poses, inspiration and influence. Whatever it was, so much of the work produced by members of the Vienna Secession makes me swoon.
Jul 042011
By Erin Fae
“Olympia is [a] fuck-you confrontation in a pearly pink package,” Molly Crabapple told me of one of her favorite paintings. “Manet was painting the top courtesan in Paris, surrounded by all the luxury she’d earned, staring out with dead contempt…
Apr 292011
Or, Sex in the Museum
By The Royal Jester
The golden ratio in art and architecture of the Greeks and the precise engineering of the ancient Romans, among their other sophisticated achievements, drove the resuscitation of western society
Mar 222011
By Shanna Katz
This month’s Out of the Box brings you Tiara the Merch Girl (also appearing as Mendhi Henna at a erotic site near you), from http://themerchgirl.net. She has many many many idenities, but I chose to speak with her regarding her queer identity, as it has seem to be conflicted, had a long journey to get there
Jan 242011
By Erin Fae
*mmmm*
*slurp*
*OH! OH! OOHH!*
Comics have always been about fantasy and narrative. Thus, it should come as no surprise that there are explicitly erotic comics that explore every degree of sexuality
Dec 232010
By Erin Fae
John Currin is one of contemporary art’s hip Americans. One of the most famous painters working today, his explicitly erotic pieces garner international attention. Currin uses everything from old Playboys and 1970s Danish porn to B-movies…