Partial tube-girl example

I’m not entirely sure what this mad scientist has in mind for this partially-entubed victim, but she doesn’t seem too happy about whatever it is.

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implied nudity in an example of the tube girl meme

Found in this post at Deceptology, which contains many other examples of this artistic genre, as well as an intelligent discussion of the tricks old-style pulp artists used to imply nudity they couldn’t directly depict.

The spider’s sex slaves!

While browsing around for fetish-fuel material pertinent to Cleo Mount’s adventure abroad, I came up with this curiosity at an online fetish e-book seller.*

Cover to a book "The Spider's Sex Slaves."

And if this 1970s-vintage literature ain’t erotic mad science, then I’ll eat my labcoat. From the publisher’s description:

Clive Beford’s [sic] articulate prose creates a strange world of ingenious women who developed a subterranean community where men are used as servants, slaves and playthings. The Spider Lady collects an army of competent female characters who populate a bizarre world of work, technology, armaments and wealth.

And in particular, it contains a character named

…Dr. Klebanoff, a gifted surgeon who used her extraordinary skills to change captive men into sex-toys for the hard-working staff.

Now that sounds like a mad scientist indeed! (But a quibble for Mr. Bedford — if this gifted surgeon is a woman, shouldn’t her surname name be…Klebanova?)

I haven’t read it, but it looks like I’m likely to.

(*) Exercise you imagination for a second, and imagine yourself transported in time back to 1950, and trying to explain to someone at that time that in your time there are such things as “online fetish e-book sellers.” Not so easy, is it?

Superheroine liquid girl

Ever on the lookout for examples in the culture of my own peculiar obsessions, I’ve come up with a superheroine named Aspen Matthews, the principal character of a series called Fathom created by the late Michael Turner. Aspen’s powers include dissolving into water, something explicitly (and sexily) depicted on the cover of the first issue.

(Image found at this Aspen comics forum.) Apparently there was for a while a proposal for a Fathom movie staring Megan Fox. One image (found here) appears as an example of the liquid girl meme.

A movie which most likely we will have to imagine rather than see. If it is any consolation, perhaps it will be better in our imaginations than in reality.