Photographs show people ticketed for indecent exposure at Rockaway Beach, New York, 1946
A mix of rebellion and public order.
Amusing Archives: 07/2025
How Frances Glessner Lee’s blood-splattered studies of death changed the world of forensic science
Nicknamed the ‘Mother of Forensic Science’.
The insane Japanese game show where contestants get hand jobs while singing karaoke
Leave it to late-night Japanese television to make things weird.
The totally bizarre world of James Bond comic books from India
Day-Glo 007 has been shaken, stirred and put up wet.
Satire goes off-leash: How fake dog adverts in ‘Canine Quarterly’ became high art
Think Vogue—but for weird dogs.
Locked up in chastity: The bizarre and brutal history of anti‑masturbation devices
Explore dubious medieval chastity belts and painful Victorian anti‑masturbation devices.