#pleasure bound

[oakendesk]

book cover - Pleasure Bound - 1965

Eric Stanton

[fourthepigram]

Lately i feel exhausted from being filled with so much anger. I still don’t know what to do with it.

[michaelallanleonard]

Sometimes you jump the shark, and sometimes, the shark jumps you.

Just ask Fonzie up there, cowering in the bow.

Eric Stanton, 1965

[fourthepigram]

Even when i dallied with other men and women, she was the foundation of my love. The substructure of my will. The soil for me to grow.

ig: fourthepigram

[fourthepigram]

I will be the mouthpiece of solitude seeped on the whispering papers of the ancient ones

IG: fourthepigram

[gameraboy2]

Pleasure Bound by Ron Horton After Hours Books 115, 1965 Cover by Eric Stanton

[sherlocksvictoriansecret]

Forget modern pornography — the Victorians had the good stuff.“Contemporary pornography is kind of boring,” said Deborah Lutz, an English professor at Long Island University who specializes in erot...

“In her new book, “Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism,” the Greenpoint-based writer dispels well-worn myths about prudish Victorians by revealing 19th-century erotic writings, paintings and the people who made them.

“I was surprised at how open the London homosexual activities were,” said Lutz. “There were gay brothels, street cruising, public bathrooms, gay pornography.”

There were, of course, still some prudes — sodomy was illegal, and dressing in drag could get you arrested for indecency (paging Mr. Wilde!). But Lutz still had plenty of material to work with in her research, including personal letters, published erotica, art and poems.”