Monthly Archives: February 2011

Fairy tale tube girl

Someone with whom I’ve corresponded (and I’m very sorry to have lost track of who you are — berate me in e-mail or comments if you ‘cuz I deserve it) pointed out to me once that the casket of glass in which Snow White was temporarily held might make the tube-girl meme older than generally thought.   It seemed like a good thought to me at the time.

Someone else out there evidently thought so as well:

Although they do appear to be one dwarf short.  (Oh, stop…)  In addition to European folk tales and the tube-girl meme, it would appear that Wally Wood‘s immortal parody Disneyland Memorial Orgy was a key inspiration.

The image crops up at various places on the Internet, but I found it in this post at Janitor of Lunacy.

Bespoke Art Gallery Torrent

A treat for those of you who like torrents, or Erotic Mad Science art:

The entire first year’s Bespoke Art Gallery for EroticMadScience is now available as a torrent.  Twenty-five images, by artists Hugo da Cunha Araújo, Bokuman, Dark Vanessa, Lucy Fidelis, Hitori, ZEO, & Kurohoshi, KristinF, Roe Mequita, Niceman, Lon Ryden, and Russkere, all wrapped up in a nice, neat .cbz file that you can view with your favorite comics viewer.  All images are PNG files in as high a resolution as I’ve got, and they can all be yours for the great price of free, as long as you’re willing to download.  You can either click on this widget:

Or you can download the .torrrent file directly by clicking here.  Either way, I hope it works and that you have a chance to enjoy it!  Feedback on the experience is welcome, as always.

Mad Science Anniversary!

It was one year ago today that Erotic Mad Science’s introductory front-page post went up, the one which closed with the words “So perhaps I shouldn’t say just welcome to all and sundry.  Instead, welcome friends.”

Well friends, now we’ve made it through a year.  And I feel celebratory.  And why shouldn’t I feel so?  I haven’t just seen the passage of time here.  We’ve had seven long parascripts, three paracomix chapters, 24 pieces of bespoke art (not even counting the new one in this post), and something like 379 posts go up here in the past year.  I’d say that’s a good year’s work, except that it didn’t feel like work.  It felt like fun.

There’s nothing like having a post go up every day, a little registration of yourself in the world, a little act of insubmission against all the hateful forces in the world that would render you small and insignificant and (shudder) normal.  I hope this past year will turn out to have been the first of many to come.

So in recognition of the site’s birthday, I’ve commissioned a special piece of bespoke art from Niceman, one which has to do with a mad science birth.  It’s called Chimera Genesis.

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Chimera Genesis by by Niceman, commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

The “birth” going on here is the deliberate creation of a “chimera,” two women being made into a single one with the finer attributes of both, the thing that happened by accident to Jill and Maureen in Gnosis Dreamscapes and which here is being done deliberately by a mad scientist.  The two figures are allegorical here:  “Thauma” and “Philia,” and they are becoming Thaumatophilia.  I very much enjoy the way Niceman rendered these.  Thama looks like she might be enjoying her (apparently terminal) experience; Philia not so much, but Thamatophilia looks the sort of girl who will have a bright future.

As for Erotic Mad Science, I hope there will be a lot to look forward to.  Work is progressing on more bespoke art (comix adaptations especially), and more scripts.  (I am also hoping for more comments in the coming year, hint hint.)  And as I discover more and more fetish fuel out there, I hope to have it to present it to you all as well.

And as always, welcome friends.

Torrent bleg

No, not actually looking for one, offering one.

Here’s the rationale: over time I expect that the number and weight of bespoke images here at Erotic Mad Science is going to increase substantially, to the point where it will become cumbersome at best (and threaten my server with melting) to offer them all at high resolution through a WordPress blog.  There’s a decent-sized gallery of such images hosted here and there are likely to be more in the future which I would like to distribute.  Some of these might be archives of multiple, high-definition images which really can’t be distributed through a blog.

One likely medium is to use peer-to-peer file sharing as a means of distributing large files, so I’m now attempting a little experiment with BitTorrent.  Those of you who are familiar with the protocol are invited to download one little torrent that I’m making available.  As a sweetener, if you succeed you will get a version of Hugo Araújo’s Maria transformation image in far higher definition than has hitherto been available to the general browsing public.

You can download the torrent here from Kickass Torrents (I don’t believe registration is required just to download).  Clicking on the image below should take you to the appropriate page.

I welcome any feedback about your experiences — positive or negative — with this technology, which you wish to offer either in the comments section of this post or by e-mailing me.   Thanks for your participation!

Passion and Power

I took a little time out of last weekend to view Emiko Omori and Wendy Slick‘s Passion and Power: The Technology of Orgasm and it was 73 minutes well spent, believe me.  The first half of the movie covers material that will be familiar to readers of Rachel Maines‘s The Technology of Orgasm.  For those of you who haven’t read this fine book, Dr. Maines gives extensive interviews in which she provides a compact and lucid presentation of her historical thesis:  that there was an extensive medical practice in the nineteenth century of doctors providing “massage” as therapy for an ill-defined condition called “hysteria,” and that this “medical” practice was in fact a form of social camouflage for what was, not to put too fine a point on matters, a form of professional sex-work.  Doctors were in fact bringing their patients to orgasm, something that, in the face of Victorian sexual ignorance, they were incapable of doing themselves.  (Well, at least the patients did feel better.)  The vibrator first came into existence as a small electrical appliance because (1) doctors actually didn’t like this difficult manual work and (2) it was cheaper for patients to invest in a vibrator than to constantly see a doctor.

Even if you have read The Technology of Orgasm, you’ll see some eye-opening visuals in Passion and Power of machines and their turn-of-the-twentieth century advertisements.  There’s also a pretty funny re-enactment scene of a troubled Victorian woman paying a visit to her physician.

Through the diligent application of medical science, a “crisis paroxysm” is induced in the patient.

And she feels much better…

However the vibrator is driven underground in the 1920s when it began appearing in pornography.  Is there any depicted in the stunning visuals?  Sorry, Dr. Faustus can’t do everything for you…you’ll have to see the movie itself.

The second half of the movie is just as fascinating: it tells the story of the vibrator’s rediscovery and promotion by feminist activists and sex educators beginning in the 1960s.  There’s more priceless interview material here, with Betty Dodson and Dell Williams featured prominently.  And there’s a frame story of Texas schoolteacher Joanne Webb, whose life was wrecked when she was criminally prosecuted for selling vibrators to women in their own homes.  That’s something that’s hard to believe would happen in the 21st century, but I guess there are parts of Texas where the 21st century hasn’t yet arrived.

And is there a benefit here for thaumatophiles in this movie?  I mean, aside from fascinating history about what is the real world’s most important small sex machine?  You bet.  The filmmakers have marvelous taste in classic film clips:

Dr. Faustus sez, check it out.

Octo pulp

Borderline as mad science, but definitely pulpy, and definitely a subject we’ve broached here at length at Erotic Mad Science.

This is also evidence on today’s Internet that whatever it is, there’s a site for it.  In this case, a site Poulpe Pulps, a site devoted to pulp covers that feature giant octopuses.  No, not a joke.  And for what it’s worth, I think it’s awesome that we live in a world where one can find a site like this.

On top of that, the site creator put out an appeal to ver readers:  where does this illustration come from?  And as it happens, ve got an answer.

Pleasure Model

Thaumatophiles have something new to pay attention to:

The Heavy Metal people have gotten busy with a new concept these days: a neo-noir, neo-pulp cyberpunk illustrated novel series, or what I take to be a series, of which the above is the first entry.

In the crapsack cyberpunk world of mid-21st century America, Senior Investigating Officer Rook Venner is about to have things take a turn for the bad when he’s called into investigate the murder of a a retired military officer.  His only real evidence:  a human being artificially produced for sexual pleasure.  Mayhem will ensue and chase SIO Venner all over the lower Hudson Valley, and by the end the Pleasure Model will turn out to be more than she seems…

There’s plenty of interest here.  The idea of artificial humans made for pleasure is good mad science, the setting makes in which insanely rich and powerful people live beyond the law and pray on others makes for good paranoid melodrama.  And the concept behind the book interesting.  It’s prose mostly, not a graphic novel, but it’s illustrated heavily — and appealingly, by Justin Norman.

Did I mention that there’s also a dominatrix on the run?

You can see a Tor Books blogpost on Pleasure Model here and a publisher’s page here.   There’s also an video trailer here (author Christopher Rowley appears):

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Not quite the art content of the book, but entertaining nonetheless. And I certainly look forward to future entries in the series.

Update 0520 GMT: Video embed was broken for a while. Fixed now, I hope.