The Waltz and erotic display.
For the younger generation there is nothing so entertaining as shocking their parents and grandparents. This, they always do with a flourish; if they get a reaction, that is wonderful and is definitely...
View ArticleSYPHILIS & THE VICTORIANS
For a man in Victorian times there were two kinds of women: 'nice' women of your own class, whom you married; and prostitutes or women of easy virtue, whom you went to bed with. Victorian society...
View ArticleCool class...sophistication. It is Mistress Angelica.
Mistress Angelica has published two books. My Dinner Party is at Amazon UK and Amazon USChemin de Fer is also at Amazon UK and Amazon USMistress Angelica can be found at her website
View ArticleSEX, MURDER, STATE OF THE ART TECHNOLOGY (EDWARDIAN STYLE) & A race across...
It was the first notorious killing of the twentieth century. July 1910 Britain was gripped by the progress of a huge manhunt. It was on a scale that hadn’t been seen since Jack the Ripper.The fugitive...
View ArticleMALE DOMESTIC ABUSE
“The number of women prosecuted for domestic violence rose from 1,575 in 2004-05 to 4,266 in 2008-09. "Both men and women can be victims and we know that men feel under immense pressure to keep up the...
View ArticleSEX & DEATH: EROS & THANATOS
It seems a strange notion; a link between sex and death. I think most people would agree, that life's greatest drives are to reproduce and to avoid death. The Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and...
View ArticleTHE MARQUIS de SADE; JUSTINE
His name is synonymous with the very worst that human beings can be. He plumbs the depths of depravity in his quest for mere titillation; Bad people celebrate his birthday; good people shudder at the...
View ArticleNECROPHILIA; fucking dead people
Necrophilia; it’s a tough one. Is it a fetish or a perversion? What do you think? It’s a strange and disturbing phenomenon. It’s haunting; it’s taboo. But let’s not be squeamish; we’re going to talk...
View ArticleThe Pied Piper of Hameln
I love Robert Browning’s poem; THE PIED PIPER OF HAMLYN. I love its lulling rhythms, the chanting, lyrical story that it tells.I went to Hamlyn some years ago; I walked over a bridge, crossing the...
View ArticleWRITING BDSM AS A FEMINIST Christina Harding
I am a self-described feminist, yet at the same time, I also enjoy reading and writing BDSM. These two traits seem to contradict each other. On one hand, feminism is about the equality of the sexes,...
View ArticlePORN & EROTICA; ART & ARTSTS
I think a lot about pornography. I’ve written about it too; you’ll probably be familiar with my tweets regaling the powers that be that writers and artists have no clear guidelines on what exactly is...
View ArticleA life of submission & dedication to her Master.
I wonder how many of you know my friend Oatmeal Girl? I’m using the word ‘know’ reservedly – as far as it is possible to know someone in this, rather desolate at times, cyber landscape. I’ve never met...
View ArticleLOVE, LUST, PASSION. WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?
Love's Philosophy:THE fountains mingle with the riverAnd the rivers with the ocean,The winds of heaven mix for everWith a sweet emotion;Nothing in the world is single,All things by a law divineIn one...
View ArticleVampires, Witches, Fairy Tales and Sexual Initiation.
Anne Rice is perhaps best known for her vampire tales; tales which have a certain erotic frisson. She amazes me with her creative energy, creating not one, but two lengthy sagas. The vampire tales...
View ArticleTHE PRISON OF THE ANGELS by Janine Ashbless
I Didn’t Know She’d Be So Kinky!Janine AshblessYou know that thing where characters get away from you while you’re writing, and do something you aren’t expecting?That happened for me with Milja, the...
View ArticleTHOUGHTS ABOUT INCEST.
Lillah McCarthy (1875-1960) as Jocasta, Oedipus’ wife and mother, in “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles. Painted by Harold Speed 1913Incest. The final taboo. It is taboo, as far as I am able to ascertain, in...
View ArticleSUPPORTING HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY. The Night Porter, directed by Liliana...
Directed and written by Liliana Cavani, the controversial film “The Night Porter,” “Il Portiere di Notte”, was released in 1974. The film features Dirk Bogarde, as Max, a discreet, unassuming night...
View ArticleTHE DESOLATE GARDEN by Daniel Kemp
It’s a thriller, it’s a murder mystery...it’s a tale of lies, spies, espionage and dark, disturbing family secrets; secrets that go back decades. I’m talking about Daniel Kemp’s masterpiece, The...
View ArticleLOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
“Why? A Complicated Love” Is a lyrical, urgent tale of love, despair, betrayal and retribution told by my favourite author, Daniel Kemp.The novel is told as a first person narrative by Terry Meadows....
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Truth and lies, lies and truth and which is which? Can the truth be hidden in a lie and a lie be veiled in the truth?Suppose there are secrets too? Just the knowledge that something is hidden, well,...
View ArticleOnce I Was A Soldier by Daniel Kemp
Once I was a Soldier by Daniel Kemp is the second in a trilogy that opened with What Happened in Vienna Jack? Once I was a Soldier picks up the narrative some 20 years later. It’s not obvious, at...
View ArticlePatiently at Her Feet
I read "Enslaving Eli", admittedly some time ago now; it really hit a resonance with me, and it still does. Much "erotica" is simply centred about sex, but good erotica involves the reader, and gives...
View ArticleTHE WIDOW'S SON..Lies And Consequences by Daniel Kemp
“The Widow’s Son” by Daniel Kemp is both an intriguing piece of writing and intriguing in terms of the genre of the political thriller; Daniel Kemp has created a tightly paced, engaging narrative...
View ArticleA Covenant of Spies...Daniel Kemp
Daniel Kemp’s latest book ‘A Covenant of Spies’ is everything that I have come to expect from him; an erudite, complex tale, that is so well developed, that he quite seriously, makes me wonder if he...
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