We just came across a London-based design house that specializes in handmade corsets, clothing and accessories made of leather, satin, latex, and leatherette (for those of you who prefer to be leather-free).

Site: http://www.myspace.com/lacinglilith

Contact: [email protected]

May 01, 2009, 12:55pm

By is a belle.

I’m drawn to details, close-ups of skin, hands, touch.

April 30, 2009, 10:55am

By Ana Cuba.

April 29, 2009, 1:36pm

I read an interesting write-up of FGT that raises the theory of the male gaze.  The trouble with gaze theory is that it presumes that ‘female gaze’ must be a simple inversion of content.  What gaze theory doesn’t allow for is the likelihood that women don’t necessarily experience images the way men do. And then there’s this.

That said, I always enjoy a great photo of a man’s forearms, shoulders, and a good hard dick.

- debauchette

April 29, 2009, 1:09pm

Photo by Noah Kalina of the model Jenny, from his Undressed series.

April 29, 2009, 12:57pm

For those in New York, Bette Gordon’s 1984 film Variety will be showing today at 5pm as part of the Tribeca Film Festival.

In Bette Gordon’s pioneering indie film about voyeurism from a female perspective, a young woman (played by Sandy McLeod) works as a ticket taker in a porn theater, and her curiosity leads her to shadow a male patron. Variety radically subverts the classic narrative mode of presenting stories from the perspective of the male gaze (exemplified by such films as Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo), and in its place asserts the presence of female desire. Female director Bette Gordon subtly infuses the narrative with layers of ambiguity about the motives and movements of the female protagonist all the way through to the final image of the film.

Advance tickets are gone, but if you get there early, you might make it in.

April 29, 2009, 12:22pm

By Dusdin.

One of my favorite series of photographs by Dusdin is his homage to Egon Schiele, including one which references my favorite, Standing Woman in Red (1913), here.

- debauchette

April 28, 2009, 5:00pm

An exhibition of Czech Photography at the Kunst- und Austellunghalle der Bundesrepublik in Bonn, Germany, runs from March 13th to July 26th 2009.  It features work from major Czech photographers from the 20th century, including Jaroslav Rössler, Josef Sudek, Václav Jírů, and Alfons Mucha, and includes over 400 works representing examples of Czech photography from photojournalism to surrealism, realism to the avant-garde.

The show was prepared in cooperation with the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague.

For more information, see kah-bonn.de.

Photo: Rudolf Schneider-Rohan, c.1930

April 27, 2009, 5:43pm

Photo: the Mofo

Exhibitionist Stripped: Dialectics of Pleasure by Chelsea G. Summers.

I relish in being the object. I love being watched when I masturbate. I adore being tied up in physically compromising positions. I like feeling as if I’m little more than a landscape of available, attractively arranged, wet, dark holes. I luxuriate in the gaze of my lovers. I feel my pleasure double, triple, square, cube when my fuck face and fuck parts and most intimate fucking bits are displayed for the appreciative gaze of an audience, real or imagined.

April 26, 2009, 5:09pm