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09/05/2007

Girls on Film 2

Author: Michaels, Tammy Lynn & Bearse, Amanda & Friedlander, Lee (director)
Publisher/Year: Alluvial Filmworks (2005)
Format: DVD
ISBN:
Item ID: 15193
Size/Weight: NA / NA
Pages: 60 min.
Date Added: 10/23/2006
 $24.95

Description


Girls on Film 2 is another groundbreaking compilation featuring the best lesbian-themed shorts made by POWER UP members. These films have delighted audiences at festivals worldwide, including Sundance and Berlin. The DVD contains films including D.E.B.S., Givr or Take an Inch and Fly Cherry, which were produced through POWER UP's film grant production program.

- Best Short Film Audience Award - Outfest/Los Angeles
- Special Rainbow Award - Madrid Gay Lesbian Film Festival
- Best Short Film - Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
- Grand Prize - Planet Out Film Festival
 




 

Geisha Secrets: A Pillow Book for Lovers

Item code: M-50478
ISBN: 0786708352
Pages/Length: 48
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Publication Date: 2000
Format: Cloth
Primary Subject: sociology
 Date Added: 10/21/2006
 Price: $20.00



Though in part a brief education on the life and arts of the geisha, this book is best understood as emulating what might have been the possession of a geisha—an erotic pillowbook kept in the bedroom for lovers, or for times when a lover was away. The book is elegantly constructed: a linen-covered, three-panel portfolio with a peg closure, it contains erotic writings illustrated with sexually explicit shunga paintings in an accordion-folded stack of pages, much as shunga works were traditionally presented. The women in these paintings however were not geisha but the prostitutes and courtesans of the pleasure quarter, existing in a society with a largely guiltless attitude toward sex. An introductory section, illustrated with modern watercolors, describes the traditional role of the geisha herself, whose entertainments may have been flirtatious but were not sexual.

 

  Erotica: The Fine Art of Sex

Item code: M-62598
ISBN: 1592580335
Authors: Edward Lucie-Smith.
Pages/Length: 224
Publisher: Hylas
Publication Date: 2003
Format: Laminated Cover
Primary Subject: Art
Date Added: 8/15/2006

Price: $29.95
 

Art historian Edward Lucie-Smith, the author of Movements in Art Since 1945, A Dictionary of Art Terms, and Art Today, here turns to the erotic in art, which, for much of the last five centuries, has been at odds with restrictive and repressive authority and social order. This heavily illustrated book is a meaty study of that tension and is also, itself, erotica. Reproductions and details of fine art are presented in color, with literary quotes, in chapters that explore sexuality in the mind, the nudity of male and female figures, the often sanctifying use of classical themes, exhibitionism, and male and female homoerotica.

 

How to Write Erotica.  Valerie Kelly.  Three Rivers Press.  1986.  322 pages., introduction, appendices, glossary, index.  A how-to book for writers eager to break into one of today's hottest, most lucrative, and most receptive freelance markets-the world of erotic fiction and nonfiction.  7/9/04

BOOK #M-717                                   COST  $12.00

 

Item Name: How to Write Erotica
Item Number: M-717
Price: $12.00

Lapdancer

Item code: M-62716
ISBN: 1576871398
Authors: Juliana Beasley.
Pages/Length: 160
Publisher: Powerhouse
Publication Date: 2003
Format: Laminated Cover
Primary Subject:  Photography
Date Added: 9/22/2006
 $35.00



"During much of the 1990s, there was a hidden voyeur in the strip clubs of the East Coast tristate area: a stripper with a camera. A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and an assistant to Annie Leibovitz, Beasley danced and stripped for $20 a lap. While trying to save up money, and avoid exhaustion and arrest, she turned her camera on fellow dancers and the customers who paid for them. More than 150 of her full-color photographs are gathered here.... Every sort of awkward, lurid position people get into in strip clubs is unblinkingly revealed in a brash layout of full-page photos, while occasional and commentary by dancers, patrons or Beasley herself are moving and honest. Beasley notes that many patrons were 'pleased with the role reversal, with being objectified'—the kind of paradox that makes this book a luridly shrewd pleasure."—Publishers Weekly


 

Orientalia: Sex in Asia

Item code: M-62718
ISBN: 157687186X
Authors: Reagan Louie.
Pages/Length: 192
Publisher: Powerhouse
Publication Date: 2003
Format: Paperback
Primary Subject: Photography
Date Added: 9/22/2006
$35.00


Thousands of young Asian women go to work in the sex industry, a marketplace where any desire can be satisfied for a price despite the fact that many Asian countries are repressive to the point of banning certain standard sexual practices. For six years, Asian-American photographer Reagan Louie—a Guggenheim and Fulbright fellow, with works in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art—journeyed through this sexual underworld with his camera. The large color images here are frank and often unguarded, revealing a wide range of emotional states in the faces and body language of semi-clothed and nude women.

 

 

VARGA. Tom Robotham.  2004.  JG Press.     The Varga Girl is the eternal pinup--arrestingly beautiful, yet warm, innocent and approachable. Alberto Vargas' Varga Girl was introduced to the world in 1940 by Esquire magazine, and her charming image inspired troops during World War II.


Features 80 full-page full-color plates, including three two-page spreads. Very well-reproduced images, primarily of the Esquire girls from the 1940s. Page after page of lovely images follow a fine introduction that includes photos of Vargas, his models and a variety of early paintings. Vargas employed extraordinary technical skill with both watercolor and airbrush. Combined with his stunning girls and provocative poses, this is the ultimate in seductive cheesecake art. JG Press, 2004.


                                                                                      

 Mature Readers — by ordering this item you are stating you  are over 18 years of age.
HC, 10x14, 128 pages, FC.    7/11/04

                Book #M-214                      COST $19.95

Item Name: Varga
Item Number: M-214
Price: $19.95

Song of Songs: Erotic Love Poetry

 

Item code: M-50094
ISBN: 0802839908
Authors: Judith Ernst, ed. & Illust.
Pages/Length: 96
Publisher: Eerdmans
Publication Date: 2003
Format: Cloth
Primary Subject: Poetry
Date Added: 10/19/2006
 $21.00



One of the greatest pieces of erotic literature, the Song of Songs, resides within the Bible—a poetic book seemingly out of place, with a uniquely feminine perspective. Its language is seductive, intimate, and intoxicating, describing the voluptuous beauty of a woman and man madly in love with one another. But the poem has also been described as a theology of human sexuality—the sensual becomes implicitly spiritual; longing for one's lover hints at spiritual longing. In this illustrated adaptation of the Song of Songs, Judith Ernst renders it for a new generation of readers. While retaining much of the beloved phrasing from the King James Bible, Ernst has made stylistic changes that give the text a fresh and arresting charm. In addition, her twelve delicately detailed gouache paintings of a woman longing for her lover graphically capture the poem's moods of love. Between sections of the poem there is short, thoughtful commentary to help readers understand ancient references in the text.

 

Bellocq's Women

Author: Everett, Peter
Publisher/Year: Vintage (2001)
Format: Softcover
ISBN: 0099289199
Item ID: M-13531
Size/Weight: NA / NA
Pages: 256
Date Added: 11/1/2006
 $13.99

Description


A brilliant fictional biography of the New Orleans photographer from the author of Matisse's War. In 1912 in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E.J. Bellocq took a series of photographs of the women who worked in the brothels. Rediscovered in the 1950s, Bellocq's photographs have become famous, but the man himself remains a mystery. With only the photographs and a few fragmentary memories, Everett brings the photographer to life - and with him his strange, tortured relationships with his mother and two young girls, and the world he inhabited: the opium dens, the bar rooms and the whore houses.

 

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