Today I’d like to present the interesting updates I’ve been working on over the past two weeks.Some artist pages have been updated, as well as the related gallery. A very interesting page was also added about Les Callipyges, a classic late-nineteenth-century French flagellation novel. The artworks belonging to the two published…
To avoid cluttering the site with lots of individual update-only blog posts, I gather every update of the year into one comprehensive post. This keeps things clear and tidy.Previous years can be viewed here, and below are the site additions made so far in 2026. Like to be informed via…
Les Callipyges, ou les Délices de la verge is a classic late-nineteenth-century French flagellation novel. It centres on a small group of fashionable English ladies (the Callipyges) who share both an exceptional physical attribute and an enthusiastic devotion to the birch and the martinet. Under the guidance of experienced schoolmistresses,…
Charles Maxwel Plaisted (1902 – 1956) was an American illustrator and comic artist best known for his work in the “spicy” pulp magazines of the 1930s and early comic books. Born in Penn Yan, New York, Plaisted studied at the University of Pennsylvania (1919–1923) and later at the Art Students…
Keiko Tagami (田上恵子) was a Japanese illustrator specializing in seme-e, drawings of women subjected to bondage and various forms of torment. Almost nothing is known about her personal life. No birth or death dates, no photographs of the artist herself, and no interviews have surfaced. Like many of the illustrators…
Toyen (born Marie Čermínová, 1902–1980) was a Czech painter, draughtsperson and illustrator, and one of the most singular and radical figures of European Surrealism. Adopting the gender-neutral pseudonym Toyen in the early 1920s, the artist rejected conventional feminine identity and moved freely between masculine and feminine presentation, both in life…