▼
▼
Showing posts with label Sacher-Masoch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sacher-Masoch. Show all posts

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- Orgasmatrons and Orgasm Guns -- (Chapter VIII, Part 36)

›
Whereas old Sigmund tried to support the status quo—not least because the bourgeoisie kept him in cigars —Reich was an avowed Marxist who a...

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- The S&M Youth -- (Chapter VIII, Part 17)

›
For the record, Grazy says he mainly likes girls, but he's also been with men, and he doesn't always camp it up, especially not as h...

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- Austria's Awfully Boring Masochists -- (Chapter VIII, Part 16)

›
Prior to coming here, I struck up an email correspondence with a transvestite who used to run Graz's (now defunct) club devoted to S...

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- The Masochists' Paradox -- (Chapter VIII, Part 15)

›
One manifestation of this trickle-down theory of deviance is the plethora of women now willing to abuse men for money. Whereas many of Kra...

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- It All Comes Together in the Sacher-Masoch Suite -- (Chapter VIII, Part 13)

›
So far, that seems premature. Sacher-Masoch's house in Graz is now a place where people go to treat their ills; apparently, the pharma...

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- 'The Century of Sacher-Masoch' -- (Chapter VIII, Part 12)

›
You may have blinked and missed it, but Graz was Europe's Capital of Culture in 2003, the same year its most famous son did his bit for ...

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- 'To Kill What One Loves' -- (Chapter VIII, Part 11)

›
These farcical situations turned Sacher-Masoch's life into a tragedy. Wanda left him for another man, and his second wife, Hulda, ende...

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- From High Drama to Low Farce -- (Chapter VIII, Part 10)

›
Although the conventional view nowadays is that Krafft-Ebing ruined the writer's reputation, in truth, if anyone ruined Sacher-Masoch...

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- How Masochism Got Its Name -- (Chapter VIII, Part 9)

›
In reality, the end of Sacher-Masoch's affair with Fanny was far less melodramatic: 'Gregor' and his Mistress simply split up wh...

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- Pleasure-Seeking Pagans -- (Chapter VIII, Part 8)

›
Venus in Furs is a remarkably modern tale about a Galician nobleman who falls in love with a rich, young Russian and turns her into a sadi...

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- The Original Mistress-Slave Relationship -- (Chapter VIII, Part 7)

›
Being slapped around entertained him for a bit, but Sacher-Masoch eventually tired of the doctor's wife, deeming her too common to be a ...

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- The First Masochist -- (Chapter VIII, Part 6)

›
The 'first masochist' had come into the world around the same time that sadism made its way into the dictionaries. Like the Marqui...

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- Pop Psychopathy -- (Chapter VIII, Part 5)

›
With dirt-dishing like that, 'Sexual Psychopathy' soon became a medical bestseller, despite many opinionmakers frowning on its popul...

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- And Venus Laughed: How Siggie & Co Got Us All Jiggy -- (Chap. VIII, Pt. 1)

›
Chapter Eight  AND VENUS LAUGHED  How Siggie & Co Got Us All Jiggy  in Fin-de-Siècle Graz and Vienna  'Things have becom...