More of a “case girl” than a tube girl, but still mad sciency, and something that makes me wonder what the backstory might be.
Found at the Japanese-language site Adult Beach.
More of a “case girl” than a tube girl, but still mad sciency, and something that makes me wonder what the backstory might be.
Found at the Japanese-language site Adult Beach.
You know that your message about Erotic Mad Science is getting across when two of your readers independently draw your attention to the same photograph that appeared in Life magazine back in 1961.
This device was apparently created by Hughes Aircraft. That fact that it gets featured in a major American publication suggests that it was — or was perceived to have been — a perfectly innocent picture. Our useful mechanical servant is helping a nice lady zip up her dress — a common enough task for the clothing of that era which she would have difficulty doing herself.
Of course to a certain modern eye this is Fetish Fuel — that zipper is moving down. And those arms — so tentacular in appearance. Oh dear…
Which of course leads me to wonder — just how many people were in on the Fetish Fuel joke back in 1961? (I have a similar wonder about the 1930s shrink wrapped girl noted at Bondage Blog a while back which, curiously, also drew on Life magazine.) It can’t have been no one, surely…
It’s a pleasure to be able to present some new Erotic Mad Science bespoke art featuring Iris Brockman from her initial adventure abroad: an interesting moment in her employment in the Club Cuisine (or, depending on your views on the metaphysics of personal identity, her last moment, although obviously she has full confidence in that that’s not the case).
Iris and Samurai by by Hitori, ZEO, & Kurohoshi, commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (Click on the image for a larger version.)
This one was a group effort, with by Hitori, whose highly imaginative work we’ve seen here recently at Erotic Mad Science acting as principal artist with help from his friends ZEO and Kurohoshi who do charming work of their own (follow links to their galleries at DeviantArt). You can see their joint work at a blog here.
And I do believe they are all open to the idea of future commissions, hint, hint.
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As we reach this point in Taylor’s adventures, I’ll try to end on an erotically-upbeat note, a harem bathing scene. Fortunately orientalist painters never seemed to get tired of painting harem bathing scenes.
Rudolph Ernst (1854-1932) The Harem Bath. Found at The Orientalist Gallery.
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Okay, so I’ll admit I was in something of a dark place when I came up with this gloss on the Myth of Pandora that I am later able to write up as a speech given by Donna. It’s just how my mind works at moments of real disappointment. It’s not something I would endorse as a general proposition, but I can see how someone might get there.
Donna at least is proving you can get a pretty good education at a state university if you halfway try. She’s perhaps only twenty and already able to steal thoughts from this guy:
“Man kann unser Leben auffassen als eine unnützerweise störende Episode in der seligen Ruhe des Nichts,” is what I believe Donna is playing off in her speech.
Okay, so maybe Schopenhauer isn’t all that erotic. Or is he? He made a very pretty youth:
Just sayin’.
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It scarcely needs to be mentioned what a popular subject Pandora was for artists. One example:
Dante Gabriel Rosettti (1828-1882), Pandora (1878). Original in the Lady Lever Art Gallery. You can find an amazing collection of Pandora imagery here, although unfortunately without much in the way of provenance for individual images.
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The operation undergone by Donna was partly inspired by this image, which is pure mad science and which probably should have gone on squick or squee week, except that I was saving it for now.
Provenance is unclear, but I found it at Janitor of Lunacy.
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I regret that I can’t think of a sexy image to go with Donna’s depressing backstory (I’ll admit I’m pulling out perhaps-overfamiliar tropes), so I’ll offer something more appropriate thereto instead.
Vincent van Gogh (1853 -1890), Woman with a Mourning Shawl. Found here, original in the Van Gogh Musuem, Amsterdam.
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Eat your heart out Gamera, ‘cuz now I’m doing one of your things.
And weird and disturbing as it is, I’m inclined to go there. It’s a real fetish, one that people do take time and trouble over.
(Found at freakyjapan.)
You might be about to find the contents of Donna’s head to be a little more disturbing than the condition of her body. Stay tuned.
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I guess I’m trying to hit every trope or, if you wish to be unkind, every cliché I can here. And know what’s coming up in the script, so it’s only fair to warn you that it gets worse before it gets better.
The catgirl is an obvious example.
(She’s a catgirl. And she has one of the cute little French maid costumes. Found as one of the supporting illustrations at the WikiFur (yes WikiFur) article on catgirls.)
So I plead guilty. But I have a good reason for going where I’ve gone, even above the obvious point that making a catgirl seems like a freakin’ excellent mad science project. Because back when I was young (but not too young to haunt the “adult” section of my local comic book store without getting thrown out) the title I would look for more eagerly than any other was Omaha the Cat Dancer.
(She’s a catgirl. And she’s an exotic dancer. And she’s a mermaid, on this cover anyway. And she’s got some kind of bubble thing. Folks, we have gone beyond ordinary Fetish Fuel here and now have a Fetish Fuel Station Attendant.)
The curious thing is that Omaha was a voluptuous young woman (or cat-woman, if you like) who made her living taking her clothes off in front of audiences. She had a fairly complicated social life amidst a group of other young adult to not-that-middle-aged characters who also had complicated social lives. The results of those social lives — a lot of enthusiastic sexual coupling, among other things — are depicted with great artistic candor and skill. But leafing back through her adventures today, I feel struck mostly at how wholesome and straightforward they all seem compared with the squicky stuff that runs through my head today and out onto the blogpage today, some two decades later. A measure of who life corrupts or, if you prefer, seasons one.
It’s cause fro reflection, anyway.
And perhaps I should note, catgirls have another use, a response to those who criticize how bizarre and ad hoc my mad science gets.
(Found illustrating the hilarious Uncyclopedia article on catgirls.) Reflect on that, dear critics!