Sex

‘Thomas Jefferson’ by N. C. Wyeth “Ideas of justice are as timeless as fashions in hats,” the philosopher John Gray writes. Consider a bill submitted…

‘Torture Garden‘ (UK, 1967) Every year around this time, Westgate Gallery‘s poster concierge extraordinaire Christian McLaughlin drastically cuts prices for his annual Black Xmas 50%…

Penny in frame from 16mm film Lilford Hall, 1969, by Penny Slinger and Peter Whitehead My reaction upon recently being exposed to the work of…

For a couple of years now, a Twitter account dedicated to unappetizing stills from cookbooks dating from my childhood has ranked as one of my…

Est-ce que celà vous regarde? // Does this concern you? Here’s a ribald glimpse of the swinging Sixties from the land of yé-yé, la France!…

Dennis Flemion, Mark Arm, Kurt Cobain, and Jimmy Flemion (via Matador) When Everett True recalls watching “videos of puppet sex created by insane Midwest band…

I’m sure that many readers of this blog are familiar with the legendary Plaster Casters, the Chicago groupies who made Plaster of Paris molds of…

‘The Concrete Jungle,’ (1982) 22×31” Original Thai poster. Artist: Larry Salk Like so many 1970s tots with a taste for lurid, inappropriate, forbidden thrills, in…

Hustler, 1976. I’ve never quite bought into the idea that red is always a color of sex and desire. Not that I give a fuck…

(You can find several porn parody posters from the “Golden Age of XXX” like the ones in this post at The Westgate Gallery online, now…