iHarem, for all your vintage slave girl needs
iHarem is a blog with a vast collection of images and especially video clips of harem/slave girl/odalisque Orientalist fantasies, some going back to the early Silent Film era. Apparently, as long as...
View ArticleThe Barbary Slaves, by Stephen Clissold
Clissold, Stephen. The Barbary Slaves. Elek Books, 1977 Gbooks Up until now, I had focused most of my attention on Atlantic slavery as an source for BDSM fantasies, but there are other influences that...
View ArticleChristian Slaves, Muslim Masters, by Robert C Davis
Davis, Robert C. Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800. Palgrave MacMillan, 2003 Amazon What you might call “Mediterranean...
View ArticleIlsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976), Directed by Don Edmonds, Written by Langston Stafford IMDB To secure America’s oil supply, a diplomat who is a caricature of Henry Kissinger and a hunky...
View ArticleProgress Report: Chapter 4 “Orientalism” first draft completed
If I’ve been posting less, it’s that I want to devote more energy to finally getting at least a first draft of this book finished. It’s a week later than I hoped, but I finished a draft of Chapter 4,...
View ArticleDiversity Trainers of Gor: Tales of Gor, the RPG
Cover mockup of Gorean RPG, showing a hairy humanoid creature about to attack an armed man, with a chained woman behind him Postmortem Studios is working on a tabletop roleplaying game based on the Gor...
View ArticleThe Mask of Fu Manchu (1932): The Celluloid Dungeon
The Mask of Fu Manchu is a 1932 adventure thriller. Many other people have written about the racial and gender politics of this film. Suffice it to say, they’re awful. This was at the peak of “yellow...
View ArticleVenus in Furs (1969): The Celluloid Dungeon
There were two films titled Venus in Furs released in 1969. This is the one also known as Paroxismus, directed by Jesus (aka Jess) Franco, and starring James Darren, Barbara McNair and Maria Rohm. It...
View ArticleTales of Gor RPG
Cover illustration by Michael Manning Tales of Gor (Postmortem Studios, 2017) is the licensed tabletop role-playing game adaptation of John Norman’s notorious Gor series of sword-and-sorcery novels,...
View ArticleCleopatra (1934): The Celluloid Dungeon
Cleopatra is a 1934 historical epic/romance, directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It came at the end of the pre-Hays Code era, when American films could be more sexually explicit. Just to be clear, it is...
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