Femdom Cinema - The Power Of Destiny

Let's start this new topic with Czech short movie The Power of Destiny from Jiri Brdecka (1969).

Femdom Pulp Magazines, Part 1

Pulp magazines were born in post World War I United States. Everything started with magazines dedicated to nonfiction detective stories, romance, western and science fiction. Printed on cheap, pulp paper, all black and white, but with glossy, painted, full colour, extravagant and eye-catching covers. Whole genre started to change itself in thirties by adding fictional stories with more and more violence and erotica. And suddenly, after World War II, there was nothing too brutal or perverted to describe and depict. Although still mainstream medium, in late fifties and sixties Pulp magazines were solely focused on very specific segment of male population, serving them with regular doses of graphical sex and horror.

Nazi theme is probably the most controversial topics of the magazines covers. But sexual undertones of SS uniforms is simple fact (well done, mr. hugo boss & comp) and obsession with the nazis is strong until today (just see reactions to leaked HM's video a couple of weeks ago). The nazi themed covers reached the ultimate and absurd sex and sadism level. No kind of atrocity was left out, but also no real war horrors were pictured - all the hyperrealistic paintings sprang directly from the artists'  wild phantasies. And interestingly enough, there were at least as many Female dominant covers as their reversed-role counterparts... Enjoy...

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Reader's Diary (Week 28)

Masochism involves more fiction and illusion that nearly any other pattern of human behavior. Nothing about it is quite what it seems... when both masochism and love are present, the bond may be twice as intense, and the ecstatic merging twice as fulfilling.
(Baumeister, 1989)

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Masochism in Literature - Introduction

Erato by Francois Boucher, 1758

Masochism seems to be connected to modern Western culture. There are not many records indicating sexual masochism in other cultures or other times. Indeed it existed - and exists - everywhere and every time, but its existence was never expressed so openly as it is now in our culture. And it is not because we are living in the most permissive or sophisticated society - many sexual variations are tolerated in other cultures better and overall attitude towards sex were more tolerant in history.

Erato by Virgil Solis, 1562

Born of masochism as recognised sexual behaviour can be connected with 18th century. We can see rare records of similar behaviour before, but with Rousseau's confession it started to be cultural phenomenon. Sadly, nearly 250 years later it is still seen as something unnatural, dishonoring, degrading. Rousseau - great philosopher, but masochist? Is it a joke? Nietzsche, gay, maybe, but masochist? Common... Kafka as masochist? No way... Joyce? Just charming and innocent games of troubled genius... Sacher-Masoch, who? Writer? You call that Literature? Really? Surrealists worshipping the divine Marquise, but masochism? What? For Women, maybe...

Erato, 1560

Pain, loss of control, humiliation. Who can desire that? Who can make it part of sexual excitement? Such perversity... Kraft-Ebbing found name for it and destroyed very successful writer. Freud categorised it, Stekel made it a part of our human instincts. Reich saw it as nothing but demand for love, Reik made it part of our modern life, legitimate social behaviour. And Deleuze mixed everything together and made it, by using French philosophic terminology, accessible to all modern scholars. It's pity that Foucault died before he could finish his History of Sexuality...

Erato by Charles Meynier, 1800

Nevertheless, there is something that allows modern people to have masochistic feelings and desires and not only to realise them within their intimate life, but also to express them, give them some particular shape in their public manifestations. Whatever masochism is and regardless of its origins, it can bring some meaning into modern western world...

Erato by Samuel Wale, 1768