Similar Posts

  • Jean d’Ayeud

    Jean d’Ayeud is the enigmatic pseudonym attached to a handful of ultra‑rare, spanking‑themed erotic publications from the mid‑1930s. His most celebrated work, La Fesseuse Passionnée (also known as Les Voluptueuses Fessées), was issued by the boutique imprint Le Jardin d’Éros (part of Éditions du Couvre‑Feu/Jean Fort) in Paris around 1935‑1936. The volume is distinguished by sixteen hyper‑realistic illustration plates that push the limits of erotic…

  • Thérèse Philosophe

    Thérèse Philosophe (Therese the Philosopher) is a 1748 French novel ascribed to Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens. It has been chiefly regarded as a pornographic novel, which accounts for its massive sales in 18th-century France. I researched the various illustrated editions of the book. While there are quite a few different…

  • Shoji Oki

    Oki is born on April 16th in Sumiyoshi, Hyogo Prefecture, but was raised in Osaka. He became a well known bondage artist. I could not find out is he is still alive (then he would become 102 in April). In 1945 he studied oil painting at the Tokyo School of…

  • Aubrey Beardsley

    Aubrey Beardsley (1872 – 1898) was an English illustrator and author whose distinctive black-ink drawings, strongly influenced by Japanese woodcuts, combined the grotesque, the decadent and the erotic. A central figure of the Aesthetic movement alongside Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler, he made a lasting impact on the development…

  • Max Plaisted

    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…

  • Antoni Uniechowski

    Antoni Uniechowski (1903 – 1976) was a highly accomplished Polish illustrator, best known in his homeland for his elegant book illustrations, posters, and theatre scenography. Born in 1903 in Vilnius (then part of the Russian Empire), he endured a difficult childhood marked by frequent illness, which kept him bedridden for…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *