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Feature posts on the performers and artists you need to know. Their stories, their work, and how they contribute to the world of erotica.
Wacky Sex Toy of the Week: Mike's Spikes
Wacky Sex Toy of the Week is back again, loyal readers, and this week we’ve got a Sarlacc-esque surprise for you. Ready? Feast your eyes on ‘Mike’s Spikes’, a really, really well-made way for you to experience IRL that one nightmare your vengeful ex-girlfriend occasionally threatens to make reality. (Or, if you were the person who closed your eyes and wished last birthday for ‘kinda like a bear trap, but for my penis’, this may be your sweetest dream come true).
By Anne St. Marie8 years ago in Filthy
Wacky Sex Toy of the Week: The Pogo Stick Dildo
We’ll be kicking off our inaugural Wacky Sex Toy Of The Week column with a toy that’s become somewhat internet-famous over the years: the Jack Hammer Johnson. Or, as it was rebranded later in its unholy reign, the Fantasy Glide. You may know it better as . . . drum roll please . . . the pogo stick dildo. (Not a typo). Yes indeed, the makers of the Jack Hammer Johnson/Fantasy Glide were apparently the brave and innovative souls who looked upon the humble pogo stick and thought, “I bet we can stick a cock on there.”
By Anne St. Marie8 years ago in Filthy
Alberto Mielgo Erotic Artist Interview
Erotic artists did not start off as shock artists. The public’s reception to this kind of art has changed dramatically from the later part of the 20th century when experimental art, a euphemism for eroticism, was intended to explore sexuality and the artist's perception of its place in society. Alberto Mielgo is often referred to as a shock artist. Shock art was born out of necessity. As the digital space exploded in the 21st century, the lines of erotic art and pornography began to blur. A new generation lost sight of the beauty inherent in sexuality. Artists and creatives pivoted in their messages as it became important to make a statement. Statements by artists, like Alberto Mielgo, became a signature art form that were intended to challenge the status quo, the puritanical, and the hypocrisy of a society that bends to the will of the media. In his own words, Alberto Mielgo explains his view of the world around him, that seems to close one eye with disdain and open the other eye wide with desire.
By Filthy Staff8 years ago in Filthy
Michel Gyarmathy Interview
Built as a music-hall, the locale was home to various operas, concerts, gymnastics, magic and comedy shows. Its boards were trodden by such famous beginners as Charlie Chaplin and Colette (before she turned novelist). The theater shifted emphasis during World War I, when "the exhibition of feminine pulchritude in the nude became the most sensational aspect of a Folies show." Nothing to do with shepherdesses, the Folies's name was intended to be Trévise, but some dispute developed and Bergère was taken from the name of a nearby street. In the sparkling era that followed, stars included Maurice Chevalier and Mistinguette, Raimu, Fernandel, Yvonne Printemps, and Josephine Baker.
By Filthy Staff8 years ago in Filthy
Al Goldstein Interview
Al Goldstein was a cabdriver, an insurance salesman, an international photographer, and a reporter. He is best known, however, for his time as the executive editor and publisher of Screw, a position he held since he and Jim Buckley created the tabloid in 1968. A blend of explicit sexual material, political commentary, and social satire, Screw mirrored society and the personality of its outspoken publisher.
By Filthy Staff8 years ago in Filthy
H.J. Eysenck Interview
A psychologist with an international reputation, both as author and as a leader of the behaviorist school, Professor Hans Jurgen Eysenck was director of the Institute of Psychiatry at London's Maudsley hospital. A prolific popularizer, he wrote more than a dozen books expounding aspects of his absorbing subject (Uses and Abuses of Psychology, etc.) and he is particularly remembered for his paperbacks of intelligence tests. To professional colleagues, he is an eloquent repudiator of Freud and an indefatigable researcher into the mechanics of personality.
By Filthy Staff8 years ago in Filthy
Gore Vidal Interview
When Gore Vidal published his first book, Williwaw, he was just twenty years old and stationed at an army base in Idaho. The book received critical praise as an excellent first effort by a young writer. Three years later, in 1948, Vidal published his second novel, The City and the Pillar, and the terrible swift sword of the literary establishment came crashing down upon him. The book's hero is a red-blooded American boy who, it happens, enjoys sleeping with men as well as women. Critics in that post-war neo-Victorian era were not about to stand idly by and watch American morals be "corrupted" by "perverts." Many critics decided that they would never review another of his books, and Vidal found himself banished from the literary mainstream at the very start of his career.
By Filthy Staff8 years ago in Filthy
Xaviera Hollander Interview
"I always say I can do without a man for about 24 hours. Then I go hunting." Such a statement, so openly and unhesitantly made, could only have come from Xaviera Hollander—deported madam, polysexual sensualist, and bestselling author of the autobiographical The Happy Hooker. Hollander operated, with a blend of business flair and sexual fervor, the most successful brothel in New York City. Observant and articulate, she also grew to see her two years of catering to customer's desires as a personal service, as well as a way to make money, and herself as an intimate therapist, as well as a prostitute. As she tells in her book, she readily acceded to demands of every kind, however way-out, enjoying making people happy and being paid for "something I'd have been doing anyway."
By Filthy Staff8 years ago in Filthy
History of Berth Milton's Private Magazine
Berth Milton Senior, founder of Private magazine, was the first in the world to start a full color sex magazine. The year was 1965. An aunt gave Berth Milton Sr. his first camera when he was six years old and he demonstrated a precocious faculty for persuading women to shed their clothes when he took a girl called Carol and his baby Brownie into the nearby countryside: "I was nine years old and Carol was twelve. It came out just natural; She wanted to show herself off."
By Filthy Staff8 years ago in Filthy
Helmut Newton Interview
Helmut Newton's photographs are characterized by an atmosphere and style which immediately identify his work. German by origin, Australian by necessity, and French by choice, this uncontested master of fashion and beauty photography has provided Vogue, Lui, Playboy, Marie Claire, and Nova with photographs that are celebrations of imagination and spirit, sparkling with eroticism and provocative sensuality. A lover of the demimonde, of the artificial and the superficial, Helmut Newton is uncompromising; He understands himself completely. He is a rare example of that perfect accord between fantasy and photography, that total dedication that is absolutely necessary for creation. In this interview, originally published in the 1976 April/May issue of Penthouse Photo World, Newton clarifies, in abrupt terms, his artistic stance.
By Filthy Staff8 years ago in Filthy
Gigolos' Garren James Interview
Gigolos are a misunderstood subject of conversation in popular culture. Thanks to movies like American Gigolo starring Richard Gere, male escort agencies were bundled under one category: the sex industry. The modern day “gigolo” became synonymously paired with “prostitute” and “sex worker.” While sexuality is embraced in the gigolo culture, it is not the be-all and end-all of the experience. For a fee, women have the ability to find the man of their dreams, no strings attached. Are you interested in a rock climbing date? Dinner for two where he doesn’t look at his phone? Fun night out with your girlfriends? Call matchmaker specialist, Garren James.
By Natasha Sydor8 years ago in Filthy
Asian Beauty Tera Patrick
Success comes in all shapes and sizes and Tera Patrick’s climb to the top is no different. From the start, Tera's life was anything but traditional, filled with enough drama and heartache for several Lifetime movies. This beautiful big busted and even bigger brained brunette is an adult film legend, with more credentials and awards than hundreds of her peers combined, and that’s just the half of it. Frankly, if her name doesn’t ring a familiar bell in your brain than you must have been living under a rock for the past 15 years. A very boring, porn-less, masturbation-free rock. From adult videos and production companies to Playboy and Penthouse, Tera’s flawless face and incredible tattooed body have been blessing our eyes since 1999.
By Jus L'amore8 years ago in Filthy