ALENE LEE: THE HEART OF A SUBTERRANEAN
Jack Kerouac based his muse/lover “Mardou Fox” in The Subterraneans on Alene Lee, a mixed race (Black/Cherokee) bohemian...
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GYPSY ROSE LEE: WOMAN OF MANY TALENTS
Gypsy Rose Lee will forever be associated with Gypsy, the musical adapted from her own memoir by Arthur...
STAG: THE EARLIEST, DIRTIEST ROOTS OF PORNOGRAPHIC FILM
Illegally made and exhibited, featuring hardcore sex images and acts, stag films were vital stepping stones toward the...
BEAUTIFUL, BLONDE, AND WEALTHY, THIS GERMAN CALL GIRL MET AN UNTIMELY END
What’s Black, White, and Red All Over? A Mercedes, A Blonde Prostitute, and an Unsolved Murder. The tale...
THE ANIMALS DIED LAUGHING: SUE COE’S GRAPHIC RESISTANCE
Sue Coe’s Graphic Resistance, an exhibition of prints, drawings and collages at MoMA PS1, presents decades worth of...
SEX TIPS FOR GIRLS, REVISITED
“God protects drunks, infants, and feisty girls, girls who are up for anything.” Cynthia Heimel, who died this year,...
FAMOUS AUTHORS WHO WROTE FILTH!
Erotica imprints such as Olympia Press gave many authors, including Fran Lebowitz, Diane di Prima and Roald Dahl...
HARRY HOUDINI’S QUEST TO CONTACT HIS MOTHER ON THE OTHER SIDE
The Harry Houdini Séances: The world-famous magician was fixated on trying to contact his dead mother. After he...