John Norman, author of Gor
io9.com has published a rare (and lengthy) email interview with John Norman (aka philosophy professor John Lange), creator of the Gor series. Norman comes across largely as you would expect from his...
View ArticlePolygyny, veiling and why they matter to kinky people
Bountiful BC is a community of about 1000 people near Creston BC, home to a Mormon splinter group that practices polygyny, one man with multiple wives. The shortage of women has driven the age of...
View ArticleJohn W. Blassingame’s “The Slave Community”
Blassingame, John W. The Slave Community Oxford University Press 1979 Blassingame’s psychological study of Atlantic society has a tangential relationship to the evolution of BDSM. What it does give is...
View ArticleThe Sheik: book, film and history
“Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film,” by Hsu-Ming Teo Cecilia Tan pointed me at the Journal of Popular Romance Studies, which feature a fascinating article...
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The model in contemporary art nude photography: Postcard Orientalism
The model in contemporary art nude photography: Postcard Orientalism has a short photo essay on Orientalism in early photography. More interesting are the cards taken in North Africa. These tried to...
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Victorian slave market paintings
A Fetlife post directed me to an entire page of Victorian paintings about slavery, or rather the Romanticized European view of slavery in “the Orient” or in ancient Rome, which was also a vehicle for...
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More vintage slave paintings
While trying to learn more about the Orientalist slave paintings I’ve been posting on Tumblr and Pinterest, I found there are a lot of these kinds of paintings. There’s the slave market set on Flickr,...
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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...
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The 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...
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Christian 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,...
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Diversity 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...
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The 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...
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Venus 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...
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Tales 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,...
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Cleopatra (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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